tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post1991295136351205092..comments2023-08-12T09:35:34.943-04:00Comments on Oh for the love of...me: Just Do ItSoberMomWriteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04845259535764391849noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-15028129116013693982014-04-09T13:55:47.545-04:002014-04-09T13:55:47.545-04:00I love your straightforward, no-nonsense, no prete...I love your straightforward, no-nonsense, no pretensions message. I agree that society as a whole may seem judgmental. But there are individuals that are willing to help, and there are even those who built up their lives on helping others through their ordeals. And you've got a great amount of those people in your life! Plus, the things one can do to start on the path to just stopping. Thanks and Namaste!<br /><br /><a href="http://instforaddictmo.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/detox-programs-your-ticket-to-a-drug-free-life/" rel="nofollow"> Scott @ MidWest Institute for Addiction</a><br />Scott McKinneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13400796819794145196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-70173830269503469672013-02-19T19:18:01.786-05:002013-02-19T19:18:01.786-05:00Just what I needed/wanted to read today. My favor...Just what I needed/wanted to read today. My favorite quote: getting off of the "awful carnival ride with the scary clowns and the dirty carnys." What a visual...so true. And thanks for your comment on my "playing along" post. I will keep blogging and on my path at one point I WILL quit drinking. Still figuring things out, but I am so grateful to be in a community where I am not judged for my honesty. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-1137231208774519182013-02-19T14:55:28.775-05:002013-02-19T14:55:28.775-05:00Such an excellent post. I had no idea there were s...Such an excellent post. I had no idea there were so many sober people outside of AA until I started blogging. It opened up a whole new world, for which I will always be grateful. Great recommendations on how to get started. There is no easy or right way to do it...just have to start somewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-88936013658695723422013-02-18T12:59:39.041-05:002013-02-18T12:59:39.041-05:00Cheers Sherry!! Superb share!
The paradox of alco...Cheers Sherry!! Superb share!<br /><br />The paradox of alcoholism; at its core - we're ALL the same,, however, the disease will minifest differently and our recovery programs are individual. <br /><br />Something we all did (do) in recovery is try to drink like "the normal person" - I put seven years together - went on a trip to Europe and "tried drinking like a normal individual" - and,, I did for a many months. But the disease only allows this as a way to lure us back in to full blown alcohol abuse. Its a conspiracy I tell you :)<br /><br />btw, while I LOVE me a good marinade, I could NEVER keep bourban on hand; love bourban balls too. No,,, this kind of cooking requires monitoring. Is what it is - what separates us from thse still out there is knowing about our own addiction and how to arrest isdawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15089788992642824340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-47058811325350461282013-02-18T06:51:28.694-05:002013-02-18T06:51:28.694-05:00Sherry -- I love this post. As the wife of an immo...Sherry -- I love this post. As the wife of an immortal alcoholic, I wish my husband would come to this realization. As the friend of many alcoholics, I have heard over and over again that AA just doesn't fit for them. I hear myself saying that there's more than one way to skin a horse. You just need to get the horse to stand still. -- Linda (The Immortal Alcoholic's Wife)Linda Bartee Doynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01820717772193440848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-63783695333447078132013-02-17T01:53:16.438-05:002013-02-17T01:53:16.438-05:00I love this post, to! So many things I agree with...I love this post, to! So many things I agree with. AA didn't work for me, although I went for awhile. I found it really great, on one hand...but it seemed...like so much work! So much effort to go through all those steps, when I wanted to STOP working so hard and obsessing about drinking, and drinking, and wanting to stop drinking, etc.... I'm still a babe in the woods, just three weeks sober. But...I feel free. I think about other things. I feel like I'm getting my life back!! Thanks for your fabulous posts...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-10012927777363023592013-02-17T01:40:18.835-05:002013-02-17T01:40:18.835-05:00Oh this is such a great post. This is where your b...Oh this is such a great post. This is where your brilliant writing comes through loud and clear my friend. How strong and wonderful your words are here, and so true. I really do look to you for a lot of guidance and strength, I think you're amazing. Lots of love xxxxxMrs Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13110933370498728198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-12543714931610678682013-02-16T11:56:54.915-05:002013-02-16T11:56:54.915-05:00Just wanted to clarify my statement about death be...Just wanted to clarify my statement about death being the only means of escape, I wasn't talking about suicide, although that definitely qualifies. I was talking about feeling so hopeless that you start to believe that you will die an alcoholic because there is no other way for you to overcome it. And maybe, just maybe, you hope death doesn't wait too long because you are so f'ing tired of living this way.<br /><br />You don't have to live that way, and you don't have to die. You just have to quit drinking.Kary Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12674442468925628974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-86934563482431590272013-02-16T11:41:03.664-05:002013-02-16T11:41:03.664-05:00Yep, we're all kinds of labels and brands of m...Yep, we're all kinds of labels and brands of messes when it comes to booze but we're one in the same in our ability to control it, or lack of ability thereof.<br /><br />I hope someone reads this blog today and thinks, "Today is the day", all of these people did it, I can do it. You can! As someone in one of the chatrooms I frequent said the other day, "If Kary May can get sober, anyone can."<br /><br />Trust us. Believe us. We've been where you are. We may sound as if we're all in control now, but we weren't. We were getting up every morning wearing the same mantle of defeat and futile hope, telling ourselves that, "This has got to stop." and then just letting it roll back over us and mow us down. <br /><br />Hell, I did it for 30 years. <br /><br />Don't waste any more time. Sobriety is better. Period.<br />Trust us.<br /><br />If you're one of those that think you've gone too far and past the point of return, if you're thinking death may be your only means of escape, email me. karymayhickey@gmail.com<br /><br />I've been where you are, you don't have to live there anymore.Kary Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12674442468925628974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-26854158781934569452013-02-15T22:50:41.828-05:002013-02-15T22:50:41.828-05:00You almost had me lost with the bourbon marinade! ...You almost had me lost with the bourbon marinade! I am definitely one of those that cannot have any booze in the house! - I swear it speaks to me! Lol!<br /><br />In all seriousness, wonderful post, very inspirational, with straight to the point directions, very helpful to someone trying to make a start, I know I had no idea where to begin! <br /><br /> The beginning seems so hard but all you have to do is start and just do it! Sober Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317131703499340784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-71958503077423158022013-02-15T16:40:59.902-05:002013-02-15T16:40:59.902-05:00Pretty damned good, there Sherry :)
Awesome, in f...Pretty damned good, there Sherry :)<br /><br />Awesome, in fact. You really nailed this. I am AA, but I am fully aware that it's not the only way to get sober. And that's pretty groovy, as far as I am concerned. Sober is sober. Happy is happy. Productive is productive. <br /><br />Action is action! And that's what we do. Thinking and philosophizing about it doesn't remove the drink from our hand. Action does. Regardless how it's done, as long as something is done. I was in that place on inaction for a very long time. I knew in my heart that I was an alcoholic, but I still held on to that faint thread of hope that I wasn't, that I could control it. The old "this time it will be different" voice kept me in the game over and over. <br /><br />And I wholeheartedly agree with the "high bottom", "low bottom" thing is rubbish. Alcoholic is alcoholic. I broke a bone years ago, and the doctor want to perform surgery. I asked why, as it was only a hairline fracture. "A broken bone is a broken bone" she replies. Very true. <br /><br />Wonderful post - I hope that someone takes this advice to heart. Another sober person in this world in a beautiful thing.<br /><br />Paul Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-33885923100907212432013-02-15T12:35:38.767-05:002013-02-15T12:35:38.767-05:00Fantastic post. Anyone reading please consider me ...Fantastic post. Anyone reading please consider me on that list do reach out. <br /><br />As I read that list I could tick off pretty much every single one. As Sherry says "Just do it!"Furtheronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11903753972242964410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958057397876971565.post-11318368342611233382013-02-15T12:24:42.391-05:002013-02-15T12:24:42.391-05:00I don't go to AA either because my primary pro...I don't go to AA either because my primary problem is depression. But I did find the God of my understanding there and use the 12 steps as the basis for my recovery. My recovery date is 11/24/1976 and I write about my spiritual journey in several blogs. My main 12th work is my FB fan page which I love doing. I've added this blog to the ones I read on my blog also named Emotional Sobriety.https://www.facebook.com/EmotionalSobrietykbermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16087236840097045265noreply@blogger.com