Category: Timeline of My Recovery Story

So I am trying to get sober living with my sisters and going to therapy from October to January all kinds of things come up in therapy. One of which… Continue reading The Lawyer

I was 30 days sober now, and had been seeing my therapist for 6 months. She was so patient, caring, and loving. She just let me flow along my journey… Continue reading Praise God for My Therapist

Something that happens in early sobriety is what they call the “pink cloud”. Your just floating along and you feel better than you ever have before. You have new friends,… Continue reading The Inevitable Pink Cloud

Every day that went by I learned more and more about the program and more about myself as well. I learned I was a lot stronger than I thought I… Continue reading Heading Toward 60 Days

In the program of AA our time, not necessarily the quality of our sobriety is marked by chips that we receive. The chips kinda look like poker chips. Getting one… Continue reading What are the AA Chip’s?

I kept going to meetings and began to make new friends. Within the first 30 days of sobriety my sponsor and a friend of mine that was also her sponsee… Continue reading That Unbelievable 30 Day Chip

My sponsor asked me to start writing about my drinking life as applied to the steps. The First Step as I was writing kept playing over and over in my… Continue reading First Step Alcoholics Anonymous

 The very next day I did something I absolutely hate to do. I picked up the phone (which weighed a 1000 pounds) and made a phone call. I hate to… Continue reading Solutions and a Sponsor

So, I started going to therapy once a week. I continued having difficulty putting the drink down. Something that was comforting to me though was my therapist each week asked… Continue reading My Bottom – Drinking is finally over

It was July of 2000. I stayed in touch with the motivational speaker. I had attended some AA meetings. I didn’t get a lot out of them partly because I… Continue reading My Bottom is Getting Closer Part-2