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14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 79

Well Alex, thank you for bringing a smile to my face on this beautiful, tho frigid Friday morning. That is one very inspiring post and has added a bit of extra zeal for my day and for my future! Thank you so much for sharing your positive energy!

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 13

I am continuing life and living for the future. Focusing on my body and well-being. I am focusing the negative energy I feel when craving alcohol on all of the positive things in my life. I am reminding myself why I stopped and why I need to stay sober. I am trying to remember "One Day at a Time". I have started back at my gym and am back in school. I know I can be a better me!

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 11226

Hi Alex,

Congrats on 11 days! Amazing start!

AA isn't for everyone. M is completely right that you need to find what is right for you. So to answer your question, yes it is certainly possible to change without AA. In addition to the medication how do you plan on changing?

Ashley, Health Educator

Here to help :)

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1562

She also recommended AA. I don't really want to go even though I have heard great things about it. Is it possible to make this change without going to AA?

I landed in AA due to my shrinks advice about 4 years ago. I had no clue what AA had to offer. Didn't even imagine life without booze is possible. But because I tried everything include the anti-depressants, something he said struck a cord in my befogged mind. He put me on Vivitrol and Camprol for first 2 months in AA, but then he said for a permanent solution I had to approach a spiritual solution. My brother had died of alcoholism in 94' so he didn't want to put me on Antabuse. Looking at the family history he didn't want to risk the same.

Entering modern day AA opened the door for a permanent recovery. Few months into going to meetings, I landed on some speaker takes on the internet (the link is on my blog), thru which I realized the power behind the 12 steps of AA. Its just not going to meeting and helping others. Many people do that but fall out and then blame AA. The approach is to work all the 12 steps of AA and keep working them always, not bits and pieces. Then you have what they call a spiritual awakening (or a psychic change) you start looking at the world in a different perspective.

Here are some of the promises:

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1022

Oh... and congratulations! 11 days is huge. Good job

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1022

Hi Alex... I just posted a comment about AA on another thread. I guess we are on the same track this morning. I'll go ahead and copy my response here because I think it can't be said enough:

I think the most important thing to remember is that there are SO MANY different ways to learn how to change behaviors we are not comfortable with. AA works great for Foxman and millions of others, but it isn't for everyone. You need to find the most organic approach for yourself. We all share a desire to change our relationship with alcohol..... the program here is a pretty great place to start. There are also AA online groups where you can check out their teachings and traditions from the comfort of your own home. Gotta love the internet.

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 13

I have been sober for 11 days now and feel great! I hear a lot about AA. I went to see my doctor this week and she prescribed me an anti-depressant. She also recommended AA. I don't really want to go even though I have heard great things about it. Is it possible to make this change without going to AA?

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