(((Ican))) I am not going to sugar coat it as I know I hated Day 1 and God knows I had enough of them. I am going to suggest that rather than count days that you just focus on today. It does not matter what day you are on as long as it is a gamble free day!!! I want you to get a calendar and every day you do not gamble then put a nice bright tick on it, or a happy face. If you do gamble put an Black X on it. It was Carole that suggested this to me, and you know it helped me so much as when I was struggling and I would look at how many gamble free days I had in comparison to gamble days, it helped give me incentive to keep going. Don’t look back ICan you are not going that way, you are moving forward one day at a time!!! I did the Calendar thing for over a year and I still have it. At first there was no months without some black X’s on it. I found it tough to get through a month without gambling, but slowly one day at a time I got through a month. I also used it as a way of saying to myself, look how many days you did not gamble!!! We have a tendency to only think about the days we gambled so put the focus on the days you did not gamble. I know that I was near the end of the month once and I fought so hard not to gamble so I could have no black Xs on that month. There were other months that I had a black X on the 2nd of the month, but at the end of the month I would count my gamble free days and give myself a pat on the back!!!
Please repeat after me I can do it, I can do it, I can do it!!! Have a wonderful gamble free day and be kind to yourself!!!
