Good morning! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict. Today is right where you need to be. Don't waste this opportunity. I'm sure I have wasted a lot of opportunities because I was thinking I was going to find something better that was going to come along. Life is hard and funny sometimes. It is hard to decide when you are trying to make big decisions or have a few options to choose from. I know, at least for me, I was always waiting for everything to be just right. It was all going to be perfect. But I always ended up getting flustered and discombobulated. William Arthur Ward said, "Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them." Which is the same thing. We are playing the waiting game. We want everything on our time. Seize the moment, because some opportunities don't come twice. That's all I have for today. Have a great one!
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Good morning! My name is Lauren, and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict. When I was I at my rock bottom, I could have given up. I felt like giving up. I felt like dying. But I didn't, I went to treatment, left my family, my husband, my 2 young children, for 45 days, so I could restart. So I could sober up, and learn how to live the rest of my life sober. I could have let it continue to destroy me. I could have let it define me. I choose to let it strengthen me. One day at a time, I get stronger. Today I have been sober 457 days. That is awesome! I am working on my second book right now. My friend is working on the cover right now. I am so excited. These are things that I never would have never been able to do if I were still drinking. I am so blessed. God has given me the strength and courage to share with others my story of experience, strength and hope. Well, that's all I have for today. Have a great one!
Good morning! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict. I am always busy. I am a multi-tasker, doing 5 things at once, trying to do one more. Listening to kid, while yelling at the other. I know I need to slow down and relax make time for things that I really want to do. I need to prioritze my list. Time is free, but it is priceless. You can't own it , but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back. There are so many funny things people say about time. But it is true, time goes by faster than you can imagine. Michael Altshuler said, "The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you're the pilot." So true. So I need to make time for the things that I want to do. Last summer, we made a bucket list if 75 fun things to do. This summer we will do the same. I am excited! It is making that conscious decision to sit down and make the list, or whatever. Setting my priorities is a huge thing. I sometimes get disorganized and that throws everything way off. That's all I got for today. Have a great one!
Good afternoon! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict. Loyalty is hard to find. Loyalty is rare...If you find it...keep it. It also can take a long time to build and second to lose. Same with trust. And commitment means staying loyal to what you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you. There is a loyalty I have to the group of friends I have in AA. I feel I need to stay loyal and sober to them and not only for me, but for them. I don't know if that sounds wierd to say, but that is how I feel. We are a kind of team, but only each person can play their position. We have each other's backs. We want what's best for each other. But we are ultimately responsible for our own actions. I will always be there when anyone needs help or wants to talk. My hand is always out. My ear is always ready to listen. That's all I got for today. Have a great one!
Good morning! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict. I don't always get these posted on the weekends, but I did want to make sure I said Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Linda. I know she reads this every day. And she has been there this whole ride. And I 'm sure she will start crying when she starts reading this blog, and that's ok, cuz they aren't tears of sadness. She will have a smile on her face too. But this above quote is so true, and I'm sure is so almost everyone. But she has always been my best friend. I used to not be able to stay at friends houses when I was younger, because I would get homesick. I couldn't be away from my mom. When I was little it was always, "I love you, mom!" Then I got older and she got annoying, (but I think I got annoying.) I wanted to leave the house. I left the house. Mom was right. Mom forgave me. She has always been there for me. She knew I had a problem, and when I had tried to take care of my problem myself before and it didn't work, she helped out, and called the hotline, set up the flight, got me out to the treatment center that has started on my journey of sobrierty. I didn't really know what to get her for Mother's Day. She doesn't need anything. Flowers are nice, Jewelry is too, but I think me being sober is the best thing she could ask for. I hope that doesn't cheap. But if I bought her something, it is just going to go in a closet, me being sober, one more day, I know means a lot to her. And on Mother's Day is actually my 15 month sober anniversary too. Cool huh? So it's a double whamee. So Happy Mother's Day Mom. I love you so much!!!! Thank you. I can never thank you enough. You are beautiful inside and out. Have a great day! And Happy Mother's Day to all you other Mothers out there!
Good morning! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict. Since I am posting this, I guess I will now be held accountable, I have started "The 21-day fix." It is a work-out, (and I am not going to say the word "diet") portion program. I am currently on day 3. It was hard enought to stop drinking, then of course with that I started eating. But my husband, being the loving man he is, would rather have me put on a few punds from food than die from alcohol. So it is now time for me to lose some of that weight. I am really exicted. Really sore, but really excited. But like the above quote says, nothing worth having comes easy. It'n not just going to happen, I have to work at it. Same with anything in my life. With my children, they didn't magically show up on a fluffy pillow. I was in labor for hours for them babies. With sobriety , I have to work at it, go to meetings, get involved, work the steps, meet with my sponsor. If you want something bad enough, you will do what you have to do to get it. We did it with drugs and alcohol. We should do it with the good things now too. That's all I got for today. Have a great one!
Good afternoon! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateul, recovering alcoholic/addict. I have learned I have to work hard at anything I do. I also need to have fun. I only life once. My kids are growing up fast so I need to enjoy life, with myself as a human being but with my kids too. But I also want to make a difference in the world. God put here for a reason. Yes, I am here to glorify Him. But if I could help one other alcoholic/addict or even one other normal person (lol), I feel I have done my job. I want to help people. But Lord knows, I have enough of my own problems. But we can help each other while helping ourselves. I know it is short today. But that's all I got for today. Have a great one!
Good afternoon! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict. One thing I had to do when I first got sober was to find something else to fill my time, other than drinking. I liked to write, and photography, so I started doing those things again. But another thing I did was try new things. There had to be things that I liked that I just hadn't tried yet. Life is what I make of it. I need to take the innitiavite and to out there and maybe go out of my comfort zone and try something new, something a little diffferent. Maybe I will like it, maybe I won't. But at least I can say I tried it. I have done a lot more hiking in my sobriety. The kids and I like to go hiking and take a picnic lunch and play in the creek. We like to be out in nature. We go camping, and fishing. Laney and I have tickets to go to an indoor rock climbing park. We have never done it before, but it sounds fun. It is something new. We are also going to a paint ceramic pottery here soon too. I can do anything I want. This is my life. God gave me this life. He knows what I will do with it, but it my job to find it, so I might as well have fun doing it. That's all I got for today! Have a great one!
Good afternoon! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict. For some, when they think of change, they think it is the end of the world, when in reality it isn't an end, it is just the beginning of a new chapter. It may be different, and scary at first, but it is so worth it. And sometimes ending something is a good thing...to start something better. That can go for anything in your life. A job, school, a relationship. Nothing is meant to last forever...well, most things aren't, marriage is, but most everything else doesn't. But change is hard for us, well it is for me at least. I like things consistant, a routine. But some things in my life needed to change, and if those things wouldn't have changed, it would have been the end. But since they did, it was only the beginning! :) Only then did my life really begin. Yeah, I had great times before then, but my head was in a fog a lot of the time and some of those memories are foggy like that too. And that bothers me. But there isn't anything I can do about it. So I like to make good memories now. But don't fret, what you may think is the end, may be only the begining. That's all I got for today. Have a great one!
Good morning! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict. I will be the first to admit, I like to give my opinion, when most of the time I should be giving a helping hand. Or sometimes just a listening ear. I need to be helping others instead of putting in my 2 cents when sometimes my 2 cents isn't what they need to hear. Now sometimes it is, sometimes it is exactly what they need to hear. But a lot of the time, a helping hand is just what they need. They may just want you to listen to their problem and hear what they are going through to get and idea of their struggles. Maybe just a smile or a thank you. They might need a ride to a meeting, or to work. They might want a friend to help put together a resume. Or to answer the phone at 2:30 am so they won't take a drink or take a hit off that pipe. To babysit their kids for a few hours so they can have some alone time. I am learning to have my hand out and ears open and mouth shut. That's all I have for today. Have a great one!
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