Hi Craig – great to see your positive post. Keep that positive approach. I have been gamble free for exactly 1 year. Like you, I keep busy with ‘stuff’. I also like to have a little bottle (imaginary bottle I mean!) of those terrible feelings ‘the next day’ after a gambling binge.
No money/Can’t pay for anything
Self loathing
feelings of helplessness being so addicted to gambling
The list goes on and of course we all feel differently.
So this bottle has all that stuff in it.
I never want to open it again.
I don’t ‘throw’ it away tho because it’s part of me. Yes it did happen. Yes I was totally addicted to gambling and I’ll prob be paying off my debts for ever.
But I can never open that bottle again.
As each gamble free day passes that bottle becomes more tightly sealed.
Meanwhile I can breathe and move on with my life.
You CAN do it too Craig. One day at a time