All of us have had the urge to do something in our life that we know will hurt us in the end, but having the urge to drink while in recovery can be devastating to the reformed alcoholic or the alcoholic that just surrendered to their addiction to alcohol.
When the alcoholic finally admits they have a drinking problem and decides to quit drinking alcohol there will be many urges to drink while starting this long road to recovery. For myself, when I surrendered to my addiction to alcohol there were many times in the beginning and even in today that the urge has come over me to drink alcohol, but I promised myself over two years ago that no matter what happens in my life and what road blocks I come up against I will never pick up a alcohol drink ever again.
HERE ARE A FEW STEPS I LEARNED TO GETTING SOBER AND STAYING SOBER:
1. First you must admit you have a drinking problem and need help to get sober.
2. You need to want to get clean and sober and your heart has to be into it and not just doing
it to make someone in your life happy or to get them off your back with the nagging
to you regarding your addiction and your life style.
3. As hard as it might seem, you need to promise yourself never to drink again and never
break that promise to yourself no matter what happens in your life.
4. You must be and stay strong to yourself and respect yourself enough not to ever drink
' again.
5. You have to be stronger than your addiction.
6. You need to eat and sleep right, eating all the right foods and drink that water to
cleanse your body that you abused for so many years.
7. You need to exercise, run, walk, lift weights or what ever it takes to get your body
back into shape.
8. You need to stay busy, mentally and physically to keep your mind off the booze.
9. You may need to stay away from you past drinking buddies and the bars you used to
visit and drink your nights away.
10. Stay away from all things that would bring temptation to drink alcohol again.
These are just a few things that helped my get and stay sober for over two years now. The longer you stay clean and sober the easier it will be to handle different things that may happen bad in your life.
I can tell you, as I said before, that many things happened to me and my family in those two years, and even though I thought about alcohol and drinking again to fix the problem, (in which it never fixes the problem, it only makes things a thousand times worse) I was strong enough to say NO!
Anyone can do the same thing as I have done, if and only if you want sobriety bad enough in your life, and if you are not positively ready to surrender to your addiction, and what a new life, then it will not work. (YOU HAVE TO WANT SOBRIETY AND HAVE IT IN YOUR HEART TO GET AND STAY CLEAN AND SOBER)
Stay focused and keep that positive attitude, and with the willing and the determination you will indeed achieve sobriety in your life.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Why Can't I Quit Drinking Alcohol
Have you ever wanted to quit something so bad, but you don't where to start in quiting. One thing alcoholics may ask them selves is, "why can't I quit drinking alcohol?" The reason I have found that I or you can't quit drinking alcohol is because we don't want sobriety bad enough to take action of our addictions.
If someone wants something bad enough we will do and try anything to achieve what we want to do, and in my case and every alcoholics case, is that we need to put our addiction to the back and look at our life and the horrible life we are living plus, we are setting a poor example for our children if you have any.
Quitting drinking can and will change your life as it did mine. I always put my experiences of drinking alcohol and my life and the results of my addiction out to the world in hopes that many will learn by my mistakes. Sobriety is waiting for all of us. The only thing we the alcoholics have to do is first to want sobriety, and if you want it then just go for it.
Sobriety won't come to you unless you go after it. If you want to live a long healthy life then I would recommend thinking about quitting drinking alcohol. Sure, it will take some hard work, but what doesn't take work for a positive outcome?
When you or someone else ask, "why you can't quit drinking your answer should be because you just don't want to. There is no such word as "I can't." You can do anything in life that you want, but the big problem is to get to that point of wanting something, and in this case, you have to want sobriety back into your life.
When I surrendered to my addiction to alcohol over two years ago I never thought it would be possible because I depended on alcohol thinking it helped me get through each day and in fact it helped me destroy my body and my life each day instead of helping.
You know, sometimes it takes a huge wake up call or something bad to happen to someone in order to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Don't ever say you can not do something, because as I said, if you have the will and determination, anything is possible in life, including getting sober and staying sober.
If someone wants something bad enough we will do and try anything to achieve what we want to do, and in my case and every alcoholics case, is that we need to put our addiction to the back and look at our life and the horrible life we are living plus, we are setting a poor example for our children if you have any.
Quitting drinking can and will change your life as it did mine. I always put my experiences of drinking alcohol and my life and the results of my addiction out to the world in hopes that many will learn by my mistakes. Sobriety is waiting for all of us. The only thing we the alcoholics have to do is first to want sobriety, and if you want it then just go for it.
Sobriety won't come to you unless you go after it. If you want to live a long healthy life then I would recommend thinking about quitting drinking alcohol. Sure, it will take some hard work, but what doesn't take work for a positive outcome?
When you or someone else ask, "why you can't quit drinking your answer should be because you just don't want to. There is no such word as "I can't." You can do anything in life that you want, but the big problem is to get to that point of wanting something, and in this case, you have to want sobriety back into your life.
When I surrendered to my addiction to alcohol over two years ago I never thought it would be possible because I depended on alcohol thinking it helped me get through each day and in fact it helped me destroy my body and my life each day instead of helping.
You know, sometimes it takes a huge wake up call or something bad to happen to someone in order to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Don't ever say you can not do something, because as I said, if you have the will and determination, anything is possible in life, including getting sober and staying sober.
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