My Alcoholism & Recovery

I have got used to the idea that I wake up on Saturdays and I am sober, that I remember the night before, that I don’t have that brain racking in my head wondering what I did, where I was, and what did I say to people.
It is a simple matter of record that I […]

Looking after myself is something that I have learned to do. I was not very good at just after I got sober, I could wash, brush my teeth, eat okay; however I had no real value system in my life. Well I had, it had been drink and use as much as possible and try […]

The thought of having to think when I was an active teen drinker…  well it just never happened, but here is what goes on now.
I hate making any large decision. I become very scared of what might happen. Many of my decisions in the past have ended up fairly crap, but not so much since […]

Yesterday was my sober anniversary. It did not feel like just
another day. When I was first getting sober I found it imposable to
imagine that I would ever be this long without a drink. And on the
occasions that I could I imagined it, I thought of someone whose life
would be more. More of what I am […]

It took me a while to stop drinking. I went to alcoholics anonymous
meetings for a while and kept drinking, eventually I stopped and it has
been a few years now, thank God.
However during the time of slipping and sliding I remember someone
talking about relationships at a meeting. They said something about
being able to look after a […]