Gifts of Sobriety - Connection

This gift allows me to bring light into the darkness of alcoholism.  I am accountable – I show up when I say I will and no longer plan my life around alcohol and hangovers. I have come out from underneath addiction.

My drinking kept me exceedingly small, isolated, and in a place of secrecy and lies.   Over the years I have become confident and honest about my alcoholism and share it with anyone that it may serve.  I treasure connection with others and love the authentic relationships I’ve established in sobriety.

Gifts of Sobriety - Clarity

The gift of seeing the past clearly and gaining understanding is a gift of sobriety.  Clarity of past mistakes and failures I’ve made brings about self-honesty and self-forgiveness.  This has taught me how to forgive others, wish them well and let them go.  I’ve also learned through this gift how to embrace and live in the gray area, life is neither white nor black.

Gifts of Sobriety - Serenity and Peace

I accepted that I could not do this myself - alcohol is too powerful. I had to let go, be brave and ask for help.  This is the first time I had ever felt peace.  I learned the Serenity Prayer.  I use this prayer in all situations, it helps me discern, get clear about what the next right thing is and is not.  It began a new relationship with a Higher Power (which I call God).  My serenity comes from living my core values, redefined beliefs, and relationship with God. It feeds my freedom!

Gifts of Sobriety - Freedom

My very first inklings of a new freedom were upon awakening, knowing it was 6 am and not 6 pm.  Opening my eyes without my head pounding and my mouth parched.   Feelings of happiness and not of shame and guilt of what took place in the previous hours. At days end, lying my head on the pillow with a smile and a full heart with one more day of sobriety.

Today I am free from the obsessive drinking and obsessive thinking of drinking.

Acceptance and surrender signal the beginning of freedom and happiness.  Once I arrived at this place, my healing began.

Transformed Thinking #7

Your Thoughts Create Your Moods

Thoughts can create emotions of happiness, joy, positivity and love. Thoughts can also create the counter opposite, anger, bitterness, depression and negativity. In every moment of every day you have the opportunity to extinct stinking thinking! What will you choose and create today?

Transformed Thinking #6

Open Minded

Practicing acceptance of other’s opinions and ideas brings about an open mind. It allows us to receive wonderful people and opens up our world to experience the blessings they can bring into our lives. An abundance of opportunities will cross our paths when we practice this kind of thinking.

Know it all mindset leaves no space for anyone to be in our life. They have nothing to offer and nothing to give. You already know it all and you make sure they know it.

Transformed Thinking #5

I Quit Playing the Self Blame Game

Freeing our selves from useless guilt and self judgement of self blame is true transformed thinking.

No more wasting precious time blaming myself for events which I’ve had no control. Specifically other people’s perceptions of those events.

Evaluate, I like to zealously inspect, where am I placing blame and whether or not it is appropriate. Refuse to take responsibility or blame for someone else’s free will choices. Don’t own what does not belong to you.

Transformed Thinking #4

“Manifesting Through Your Words”

Do you magnify your negative emotional state of well-being by talking about it repetitively with others?

Every time you repeat a story that involves a negative emotion it reinforces the experience that your body has from it.

Catch yourself when you are talking with others, are you seeking for agreement/validation about how bad a situation is? Or are you truly trying to find a resolution for the experience?

Be mindful of what you are manifesting by reliving the negative.

What kind of seeds are you planting if the narrative is negative?

Transformed Thinking #3

Accept the Positive

A healthy mind hears both good and bad and focuses on the positive.

Sure, negative things happen to everyone. It doesn’t mean that we have to except all circumstances as negative. Especially watch how you enforce compliments and positivity by responding in a negative
way.

It’s always easy to respond to a compliment with a negative. For example, someone gives you a compliment on your outfit. You respond with: “oh this old thing”. Next time just say “thank you!”

Transformed Thinking #2

Letting Go!

What if we got real honest with ourselves and practiced releasing things we could never control to begin with?

What if we released our need to know what happens next?

Freedom is not easy when all we know is busy and bondage, but what if we shattered the patterns and set ourselves free from our thinking?

Release what we thought we needed, loosen our grips, unlearn what’s not serving us, let go of the old and focus on a new way of thinking and living.

Let’s create a new balance in this new season.