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keep up the biggest fight of your life, your worth it G
Hey Bettie Good luck with the 12 steps and try not to let your guard down when it comes to sticking with what will help. I feel the same when it comes to the religious element and sometimes it becomes a crutch for those who need one. I choose to feel differently and though my faith is unstructured it is real. Take what works for you and let the other stuff go ok.G Take your time and what works for some will not always work for you, just remember there dosen’t have to be any set rules. I like that freedom so that i feel I make the final decission on what will work for me.G
hey kathryn just thought i would catch up on you and am glad to see you are well.. Sounds like the ex classes are lots of fun are they like the spin classes i hear about. I was never much good at those classes better on my own. Went to the gym for over 15 years and it was great. Will be getting back into a program soon though now that the swim spa is to arrive next week. I am sooo looking forward to it. Love the water and find it easier on my joints. I am so happy you have stayed so focused on recovery. its an inspiration to me to stay focused as well. thanks G
Bettie I feel for you and wish you better days soon. I can relate though I had a customer in a few days ago and (he was wasted) come from another bar and wanted me to help him get a cheap rate in the hotel,Which i did afterall we know each other over 10 years. Anyway in his drunken stuper he says I don’t like your hair like that it makes you look old. Well i was not impressed and felt awful especially because the hair was not cooperating at all that day and I just said to hell with it and went to work. So having him say that of course made me feel ugly. And I am far from ugly this i know and looking at him who is definetly not all that anyway had some nerve. but I didn’t let it pass since he insisted on hanging around even though i told him a number of times he should just go to bed. Anyway I told him I didn`t recall asking him for his opinion when he says are you mad!!!!! jerk…. So I told my co workers and that helped to unload. So the weekend passes and i go into the office at work and run into a x manager from 20 years ago and he says Wow you look the same as you did 20 years ago you look great Lol so just when you think someone can make you feel sh… there will always be someone waiting to make you feel good. I realize I need to focus on that feedback and give the negative a swift kick in the ass and move on. there will always be people around who want to rain on our parade to hell with them Bettie. You are doing so well and they don`t even have a clue and if they don`t support you move on my friendG Stay focused on recovery and maybe we can catch up on weekend chat
Hi Bettie sorry the back is such a tough pain to work through, been there and done that. As i recall the pain was worse than Labour so I hope you are taking muscle relaxants to help. That comes from someone who hates meds but i made the exception then believe you me i would not have been able to exist without them. Thanks for poking in on me too, Really appreciate it. Maybe this weekend there will be time to catch up on chatG
so very awesome for you and all due to your determination to stop the gambling from ruining your life and it sounds like its real permanent. congrats to youG
nice to see the real you coming through on your posts and good on you for treating yourself a little pampering its just what you deserve to be sure and your right we would have taken just over an hour to throw that into a machine and have nothing to show for in the end. G
i think the weight things is also a by product of no more gambling. I f you were anything like me I could sit for 12 hr with nothing to eat 2-3 nights a week sometime. now I am spending more time eating than ever and can see a few extra pounds on me too. I will try to work it off though with a new excersise program soon , now that I have more time on my hands G
Well I am glad that that I can focus more on my temple both physical and not lol. i am quite busy getting ready to move to my new temple lol at the end of the month. I too miss the casino but not the waste of time. So I am like you thinking of better ways to use the precious time I have. I enjoyed reading your posts too and I look forward to the good days ahead.G
Missing you too Kathryn but realize your busy with life and that is good. Glad you enjoyed your BBQ and that your back is a little better. Hope all goes well with your new job and you get into the swing of things easily. Nice to hear you just brushed off that pesky urge too G
I know i tried numorous times late last night too 🙁 Everything is back though and managed to get on for awhile this afternoon. hope your doing ok and enjoyed the post. Very thought provoking and interesting.G
hey Bettie glad to see you are really figuring things out and trying to change the way you respond to the day to day. I too people please way to much and its hard to change that., but at least like you i am more aware and can try to take steps tp change old habits and replace them with new more condusive ones that will leave us more satisfied and feeling less used.G Stay strong in recovery
the gambling monster rearing its ugly head trying to convince you to do what you know is just not worth it. The anwers are all around you. read and remind yourself from the posts of all your cg friends. none of us can come up with great success stories from our gambling addiction. There just aren’t any. I too see that my life without gambling still reguires lots of hard work, even more than i realized., after all escaping was easier that is for sure. But i want to be the person who says i will take the time to work through things and stop running to a more destructive lifestyle call GAMBLING. I want to also be there for each other as we struggle through each and everyday G
Sounds like a wonderful day your son had on his birthday and all thanks to you. How great is that. Hope the back continues to improve too. Hope to touch base this weekend G
good on you you for doing so well and i will be sure to drop a line to Salina. We all know that the slipps are all apart of the recovery process. Hopes she knowes too.g