My sponsor sat me down when I first asked her to sponsor me. She said,
“Heidi, relapse is not about you picking up a drink again. It is about all the time leading up to that moment. That is what I want to help you identify and be aware of so you don’t get to the drinking part again.”
That made perfect sense to me. Identifying my triggers for checking out. Wow, what a concept. I drank mindlessly for years never thinking of that.
You mean I might have a chance to lick this thing if I pay attention?—YES.
The one thing I knew for myself when I got sober was that drinking was not an option anymore. So, now, I just had to figure out what my options were—calling my sponsor, working The Steps, talking to others, exercising, walking my dogs, attending meetings, praying while watching water flow powerfully down a river or waves crashing on shore—all productive.
I heard someone say in a meeting: “Things may change, but my sobriety is not negotiable—Period.”
This is true for me.
You?
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
Romans 12:2
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