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Congrats on two years, Kristen! Thank you for sharing your journey with us. ❤️

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Thank you for providing a platform to share, Dana! ❤️‍🩹 grateful for this community!

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Congrats Kristen! I also stopped drinking during the holidays, so I get it. I had that moment over Thanksgiving weekend 2020 - smack in the middle of the pandemic. People would ask me why I chose to do something so hard at such a challenging time and during the holidays on top of it! I simply say I couldn’t take it anymore, and I knew that if I didn’t say it out loud to my husband that morning on November 28, then I wouldn’t follow through in the coming weeks and I’d just lose myself in this holiday chaos again. So I seized the moment. Looking back, I believe that was my higher power speaking to me and giving me the boost I needed. It took me over three years though to find AA and a relapse into other things (so I have multiple sobriety dates as well) - I feel like we have a lot in common. I also tried TLC in the beginning too - hiding behind my computer screen, never showing my face, always terrified of people knowing my secret. There was so much shame back then. Anyway - thanks for this today. It was like a warm hug reading it this morning. Happy holidays! 🩷

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I definitely believe that nothing happens by mistake and my higher power/spirit guides/the planets/whatever is out there that makes the sun rise and set and the trees know when to drop their leaves is what brought me to sobriety (page 417, always).

Thank you for your sweet comment and congratulations to you! ❤️‍🩹

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This last winter, while on vacation, I watched the sunset on the beach - seeing it dip down into the ocean and disappear is what allowed me to look outside myself finally and feel that there is something much greater than me at work. I can’t do it all. There is serenity and acceptance in that for sure. 🌅

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Thank you for this. My sobriety date is 10/31/2022. So right at the beginning of the holiday season. The first two years were tough but this year, I've kept very busy. At a little over two years sober, I still go to meetings everyday. As my sponsors husband says, "I drank because I liked the effects of alcohol and I go to meetings because I like the effects of Alcoholics Anonymous". One Day at a Time are the words that drew me in and the results I see in myself are what keep me around.

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