Day 590

Good afternoon!  My name is Lauren, and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict.  When I first got sober, I thought the only problem I had was a drinking problem.  The truth is, 10% of my problem was the drinking problem, the other 90% was that I had a thinking problem.  And once I got sober, I had to change my whole way of thinking for me to be able to change any of the problems I had created from before.  And that is a hard thing to do when you have been doing that off and on for over 15 years.  But by going to meetings...and listening, talking to my sponsor, talking to other friends in the program, and just living one day at a time, I was learning to think differently.  By thinking differently and reacting differently than I would have, I should be able to solve problems better than I would have when I would have been drinking.  And as long as I keep doing that day after day, that makes me happy. That's all I have for today!  Have a great one!