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I'll Have Mine Straight Up: Still Counting My Blessings Every Day
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ISBN13: 9781512757811
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: Sep 29 2016
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.10 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ELEVEN YEARS
Shhhhh! Enough on the years. I am not collecting years, just days. 4017 days on my sobriety birthday, July 12, 2015.
Last time I checked, we are all on the same day--
Today.
This year leading up to my sobriety birthday in July looked strangely like the six months leading up to the day I stopped drinking. From January to July in 2004, I was not sober much of the time.
We received the news this year that my husband had a rare form of thyroid cancer requiring surgery and two types of radiation. During that same time, my mother died suddenly of a heart attack. I went through the loss of several other friends and their memorials tightly packed together right after my mom's death--then recently, my only niece's death.
The difference?
I didn't drink through any of what has happened this year.
There is nothing in this life that we can experience that a drink won't make worse.
Walking through the emotions of it all is hard. People said I would feel better when I got sober.
Yes, I am feeling my feelings better because I am present. Stuffing the feelings by drinking was keeping me in denial and stuck. I feel better because I am not checking out. Feelings are not facts. The feelings pass. Growth happens. I can move on and live.
Now, I am living all of this life straight up!
You can too. I pray that for you.
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