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Robert Pease posted an update 3 years, 5 months ago
So this is going to be the first holiday season that I’m home from prison and clean. Still have yet to rebuild the bridges that I have burnt down my parents are skeptical that I will remain clean for any length of time. December 11 is my first year clean since I was a kid and have worked the same job for almost a year now. So this is my question. Does it get easier like the book and people say?
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So I celebrated a year clean!!!!!! First time in my life since I started using drugs I’ve never been able to say I’m done doing them until I hit the rockiest rock bottom of my life. By working the steps and getting an awesome sponsor I’ve accomplished a lot in the past year I’ve got my family back in my corner, a support team that is out of […] View
I can’t say it gets easier brother, but it does get better, and with the fellowship at your disposal , and a Higher power that’s got you. It sure will be easier in recovery than out there in the madness !!!!! Love ya
Hey @robertpeace! Excellent question! First, congratulations on being home for the holidays and sober this year! What a wonderful gift that is to family, friends, and especially yourself! It’s been my experience that it gets easier and better with time. It’s normal to feel the way you do now, but the more work you continue to do on yourself, the better and easier life and relationships with others will become. The Big Book says, “We should not talk incessantly to them (family) about spiritual matters. They will change in time. Our behavior will convince them more than our words. We must remember that ten or twenty years of drunkenness would make a skeptic out of anyone.” AA p. 83