How has your life changed since entering into recovery?

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How has your life changed since entering into recovery?

[Montauktammy]

Like 360 for me I got my kid back I do the hole mom thing. I enjoy it and I don't spend as much time in bathrooms. I wake up every morning and know where my car is with out sleeping in it. I don't wake up to men that I don't know. a box of cheerios is not the only food in my house. my hands don't shake. I eat. I don't have to rip IV's out of my arm cause they want to keep me in a hospital and they wont let me get high there, I tell my doctors today imp in recovery and they give me meds that I can have. with out triggering my addictions. I don't use sex as a form of hello. there is allot more too

[barbie25]

My relationships with my family is great now. They don't have to walk on eggshells around me. My relationship with co workers or the general public is better. The relationship with my daughther is wonderful. I listen better now to everty thing I guess it is like being reborn food taste different, color looks different, music sounds better. I could go on but I think you know what I mean.:42::29::D

[JohnDaniels]

Whew! Where do I begin to tell the story?

Back in the old daze, I went as far down as I could go on self knowledge.

I realize today there is no way I could have gotten to where I am on my own self knowledge.

It's more than just not being physically sick each morning at the toilet and having the shakes.

It's nice to go to bed and fall asleep naturally instead of drunk and past out. It's nice to hold a cup of coffee to my lips in the mornings without shaking so badly the coffee would spill and burn my lips and face.

People don't recoil from me due the the smell of Jack Daniels on my breath.

I've been a real productive member of society which is nice. I've actually helped contribute. I've learned to make ammends when I harm someone. I take a daily inventory with prayer and meditation. I didn't do any of that back in the daze. I lived back then in fear and terror.

Back in the daze I was filled with selfishness. I've learned how to accept that, face it, deal with it, overcome it and learned how to love and to give and to not ask for anything in return.

I had a terrible problem with depression and anxiety back in the daze. Today I am a very grateful man having learned to live a day at a time.

Life has gone on and I have learned a way to deal with life's problems responcibly without running away from them.

[Dan B]

:DThat I have a choice today!

[Honey]

I'm able to think, to feel all of those emotions raw and not want to drink. I can look at myself in the mirror and not want to hurt the person I see. Life still shows up, but I can face it, believe me it's hard as hell, but I can face it. **** I want to get up in the mornings, I want to see and talk to people, wow I answer my phone and door now. I actually loving AA meetings. I quess I'm really saying - I can love myself a little more now.:smile:

[CD BUCKBERRY]

:DYes it has changed 100 percent,I now have my life and will back which was lost in a sea of misery for years.I have new friends,new thinhs to do that don't require a stop on the way to were I am going.I am trusted by my family.Recovery showed me a new way to live without drugs or alcohol.I am a free person again,YAHOO.:D

[bnepro]

this was from the 24-hours a day book, thought for the day and it's EXACTLY
true for me since getting INTO my program:

Some things I like since becoming dry: feeling good in the morning; full
use of my intelligence; joy in my work; the love and trust of my
children; lack of remorse; the confidence of my friends; the prospect
of a happy future; the appreciation of the beauties of nature; knowing
what it is all about. I'm sure that I like these things, am I not?:29:

[janbear]

I got a new life in recovery. The 12-step program has given me tools and i actually use them now to help me live life on lifes terms. I can sleep in good conscience and look another person in the eye today. I have God in my life today. Recovery has also taught me to lighten up a little and have some clean fun. I still have a little struggle with that but i am getting better. Thanks for letting me share.

[kaistevens]

I no longer curse each new day.
I no longer pray, "Just let me die."
I can sit and talk to my kids without feeling guilt and shame.
I always know where I am, and who I am with.
No more hang overs.

But, most surprising of all, I have a very close, personl
relationship with God as I understand him.

I am not ever alone anymore.
I am not empty anymore.

[Craig A.]

:162:A lot of good comments, I used to pray for me not to wake up or let it end. Now I could look the other person in the eye and not be so scared that he will see right through me. I could show up to work and do the best I can, I keep my word if I say I am going to be somewhere, hold myself accountible, and stay grateful for my sobriety even though some days I feel like ____, :mad::frown::sad:I am also grateful that I could feel that way and not run. I could possibly of help today and that is a good feeling, thanks for the reminder. God Bless:195::42:

[annalittlebit]

What they all said :D At last I am comfortable in my own skin--It's a GREAT place to be!!!!!!!!!!

[shydawg]

funny I had this talk with my counsler just the other day, today I feel a freedom . freedom from the obsession of needing to use ..I'm still early in my recovery but I just dont have that obsession any more .I feel a calmness a peacefulness that I've never have felt before .one that no drug has ever given me , I joined the human race again.I can look myself in the mirror agan & not look away in disgust.... I told my counsoler that if somethat was to happen to me now that was out of my hands . something ..if I had abad accident or something life threating .. lets just say I would be okay with that 'cause I finnally got to get clean .. (cuse b4 I would of felt as if i have been cheated out of something somehow .. even tho I was the one who did the cheating . if that makes sense ) I finnally got a chance to Live a life worth living .I am grateful for the simple things that I have today ....