NEVER GIVE UP…..
Take Pride in how far you have come and have Faith in how far you can go!!!!!
I like this saying… we may have slips/gambling *****, but have we progressed since we started recovery. When I think of all of us who are here…. we are not giving up, we are continuing to find ways and the strength to have a gamble free life. We forget how much we have gained by being here and we lose faith that we can do it. If you think you can’t or if you think you can you are right!!! I know when I started I said I can’t stop gambling, but I named my page as… I can do this. I don’t think I believed it when I typed it, but slowly I am believing that I can have a gamble free life. I know that no matter how long I have gamble free it is easy to end up gambling. I just read recently about the person who gambled after 8 years gamble free. I know when I started recovery I would wonder "how come someone with all that gamble free time gambled". I don’t have 8 years gamble free, not unless you ***** before I started LOL I now understand that even with gamble free time mounting it is easy to end up gambling again. I have been there a number of *****. I also know that no matter how much gamble free time we have.. we are all the same time away from placing that bet. I did not gamble today and that is all that I can focus on… one day at a time.
Vera, you gambled one day in April but there are 29 days that you can have gamble free. Never give up Vera, take it one day at a time. Stomp those thoughts right away like a bug (that advice you gave me really helped me a number of *****)!!!! I know that there are a number of people struggling, and I know how that feels, but if we give up we will never get there.
One day at a time my sweet lord…– 4/5/2013 1:32:13 AM: post edited by cat438.
