Thanks Neil and everyone.

Yip, still here on my sober journey - not a drop. Sure, I"ve thought about it sometimes, but not a drop. Its a serious thing for me this journey no laughing matter. Hardest and toughest thing I"ve done. My mum tells me I"m stubborn and I'm stubbornly doing this my way.. all the way. Its the only way for me to be.. perhaps a bit 'terse'.. I"m not sure, but it has worked for me thus far. I"m so determined not to slip.. so determined. I dont want to be someone who can talk about it with clarity and not DO it.. I want to be alive.. I want to be at peace. It will be my life's work, for sure.

Darling/Star, nearly a year. That is so great. It feels like so few get that far it feels sometimes but it is possible. I found when I thought everyone couldnt make it that the website women for sobriety was good cos people on there post a lot after many years of sobriety. I never posted on that site but it did help me too. This site seems more for the beginners and thats fine but with a bit of time under my belt and losing touch with this site it makes it harder to either keep up or abreast of what goes on here anymore for me. And to think I used to know EVERY post on the site.

You know, I"ll never as long as I live forget my first week sober. Never. I'll never fool myself that it was easy or I could do it again. I"m over fooling myself.

I actually think there are many paths to happiness. It can be God.. crystals.. it can be essences.. it can be craniosacral therapy. What matters to me is intention and application. So, its my intention to heal myself. To do that I have to be sober. Its my intention to be healthy so I apply myself to my health.

To those of me that dont know me I did not do RJ's program, but mine is similar.. so my program was
honesty
luck
cold turkey sober
no meds
organic diet
meditation
exercise exercise and sweat
determination
oh.. and more honesty
counselling and personal growth
search for meaning

Tawny.. g'day. hows it going?

Thanks everyone for your kind words... and Neil.. you are next.
Brigid