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  • 9 October 2019 at 5:00 pm in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48636
    kin
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    I’m emotionally sober when my beliefs and feelings about me match the facts about me. In other words,
    When what I know to be true about myself
    and what I believe and feel about myself
    are pretty much consistent.
    When I’m emotionally sober and the facts show I’m a good person, I believe I’m a good person, and I feel good about myself.
    And when I’m emotionally sober the input of other affects me, but it does not determine what I believe and how I feel about myself.
    Self-respect, self worth and any other positive feelings about myself come from within me.

    9 October 2019 at 4:54 pm in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48635
    kin
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    Hoping against hope was when I think that I can gamble / drink like a normal person

    9 October 2019 at 4:07 pm in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48634
    kin
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    Insanity was the act of placing my first bet and picking up the first glass

    8 October 2019 at 6:21 pm in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48633
    kin
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    it is obvious, timing is not mine

    God”s plan will not fail 

    8 October 2019 at 12:36 pm in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48632
    kin
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    From this day onward, I will call myself Zero in meeting.

    6 October 2019 at 1:00 pm in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48631
    kin
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    A new friend keep texting me his favorite recovery slogan.

    6 October 2019 at 5:07 am in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48630
    kin
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    I learn to stay positive and give up my unrealistic expectations in life while I walk my  journey in recovery.

    I read in How It Works of the 12 steps recovery program that we are not saint.

    I read in the bible that no one is righteous, not even one in the book of Roman 3:10

    This is what I need to hear because I was a perfectionist.

    (I was actually suffering in recovery for many years because I could not attain perfection in my recovery and I feel guilty and ashamed about it.)

    I start to experience gratitude and contentment in my imperfect life and progress in recovery

    I no longer live in misery and start to live in joy.

    6 October 2019 at 4:53 am in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48629
    kin
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    Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,

    we tried to carry this message to other suffering addicts,

    and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

    Many of us exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with it.”

    Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints.

    The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.

    The principles we have set down are guides to progress.

    We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.

    1 October 2019 at 2:22 pm in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48628
    kin
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    I love this parable. I feel that I am not even worthy and deserving to be like this wonderful woman. I am leaking all the time and trying hard to give away what is left of me. I do not have much left. I have to depend on God’s grace.

    30 September 2019 at 2:37 pm in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48627
    kin
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    Gambling can mess up my mood, it affect my work, relationship with people and sleep, I lose my peace whether I win or lose.

    30 September 2019 at 11:14 am in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48626
    kin
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    If I can rest and do nothing. I would not have acted out in alcohol, sex, gambling, drug, food and at people, at home, at work.

    The drop in center I patronize since Aug 2005 was the best thing to happen to someone like me ever.

    Recovering addicts just drop-in to the most comfortable air conditioned lounge area with TV, computer, books, games, exercise machine to be with other people who want to stop their self destructive behaviors.

    We can just sit and chat with one anothers, or just lie down and relax, or we can sleep and quiet down on the sofa or the carpeted floor. It is a safe haven.

    Wow! I appreciate it even more now after describing the place.

     

    30 September 2019 at 10:02 am in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48625
    kin
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    Stop gambling and there is no more debt and depression from gambling.

    The heavy debt and serious depression does not come from unemployment and broken relationship.

    Fear blind me and make me look at all the wrong places

    29 September 2019 at 9:05 am in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48624
    kin
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    How many times have I regretted and wish I have never gamble, drank or acted out at people, work or food.

    1. What would I have done differently if I was given a second chance?

    2. What did I do after I was given a second chance?

    After wrong doing, I promise to stop.

    But given a second chance, I continue do it again.

    25 September 2019 at 4:33 pm in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48623
    kin
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    How do I do it?

    I need to learn how to do it and guess it will take me years. 

    24 September 2019 at 3:01 am in reply to: I feel grateful to be alive – one day at a time #48622
    kin
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    Family, work, money and recovery are looking good for me. They are all heading in the right direction now. Everything feels sweet now.

    However, too much of any one thing will upset the rest and balance for me. I am taking time off to rest and let thing fall into place naturally today. I needed to take a break from everything.

    I do not wish to be like my first mentor; helping newcomer feel like a full time job and too overwhelming for me.

    I do not like to lose the peace and freedom I have now. I don’t feel comfortable or maybe it is a sign that I am not ready.

    May Gods will be done, not mine.

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