Day 428

Good morning! My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict.  Believing in yourself is a very hard thing to do.  Having others believe in you is easy.  Others believed in me, but for me to do was a totally different thing.  Once I made that decision to get sober, that was half the battle.  That was a big decision.  Then I had to believe in myself that I could actually do it, and follow through it.  It was a life decision.  It wasn't just something I was going to do one time, like going into a gas station, and standing in line and deciding which candy bar I wanted. It was deciding if I wanted to live or die.  But it wasn't that easy.  For some of you reading this, who are not or have not struggled with addiction.  It sounds so stupid and like such an easy choice, but to those in recovery, you know exactly what I mean.  The drugs and alcohol has such a stronghold over our brains, it seems to make decisions for us.  But making the decision to get clean and sober was half the battle and believing myself, I knew I could do it.  And I am doing it, one day at a time.  Here I am, day 428.  Believe you can, you can do it with anything.  My daughter is learning to ride a bike right now.  We have been working on it  for a while.  Last summer, she tried a few times, but kept quitting right away.  She didn't believe in herself.  This summer she keeps telling herself, even outloud, "Come on, Laney, keep your balance.  Keep peddling."  She believes in herself this year.  She can do ti for a while.  She is so close.  Any day now, she will be off and going by herself.  All she had to do was believe.  That's all I got for today. Have a great one!