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A Surefire Way to Quit DrinkingUsing
by Bob J. (Santa Rosa CA) Change your self-image to a non-drinker/user. While this is much easier said than done, consider the benefits once it’s achieved. You don’t feel sorry for yourself because you can’t drink or use because you don’t want to. You aren’t jealous of people who do drink or use because that’s…
Rex’s Short List of Recovery Necessities
By Rex A. Sobriety sometimes takes longer to “get” for some than for others. I don’t know why. The more you struggle with it, the closer you get to success. What do you need to do to achieve sobriety? I don’t know! But YOU know. You know, even if you don’t think that you know.…
Heath’s Eight Ideas to Get Through Early Recovery
Heath M., in recovery in Atlanta, posted this personal list of things he did to ease his way through early sobriety, on the LSR Email List (1998). What helped me during initial sobriety: 1. Make sure you have a VCR and a blockbuster card, rent all the Godfathers, and that should keep you occupied for…
Four Tools That Help Me
By Mark C. People. I have found that if I am alone or with people who are still using then it’s usually just a matter of time before I start to find excuses to use. Being around people who are not using, and specifically people in recovery I find excuses not to use. Establish Phone…
Craig M.’s Sobriety Tool Collection
I collected these twenty tested tips for staying sober at the Monday night Berkeley meeting this week: 1) Identify what physical needs alcohol met for your body. Alcohol is metabolized into water, an aldehyde, and sugar. Only sugar could satisfy a physical need/craving for your body. So maybe you could just eat sugary foods and…
Dealing with Cravings and Feelings
Set Up the Projector If I wondered why I didn’t drink yesterday, I’d never get this morning’s breakfast or probably lunch made. I have discovered that my superhuman, superheterodyne, Hoover Dam-powered intellect doesn’t do me much good when I have to fight off the desire for drink or cigarettes. I use the part of the…
“Daily Dos”
Keeping the Sobriety Priority fresh in our minds is helped with daily reinforcement. The following are excerpts from email posts contributed to a “Daily Do” topic.. Laura L: One thing that helped me a lot when I got sober was to actually write down how drinking made me feel, and all the guilt, shame etc.,…
Abstinence Assists
Contributed by a member of the Santa Rosa CA LifeRing meeting These thoughts and actions have helped some achieve abstinence. They may, or may not, be suitable for you. 1. Change mind set to one of a non-drinker/user. This is easier said than done. Consider how it’s helped quarterbacks, amputees, etc. (Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz.)…
Well, it doesn’t “work”…people work.
By Rick B. Rick eloquently and accurately explains to a newbie what LifeRing is, and what it IS NOT. “LifeRing is not a pill, or a magic spell, or a secret formula. LifeRing is simply an organization of people who share a common goal – sobriety, and who share some common basic beliefs about how…