Struggling with Addiction

[motormouth]

Just when you think it will get easier, you relapse. went out with some buds to a bonfire, drank a beer and i did fine. then someone i didnt know pulled out some Bushmills irish whiskey, which is my weakness and i broke. feel like a failure. i was doing so well.

[Doc Nock]

STOP!

Stop right there, Matt!

You didn't get to be a drunk in one fell swoop and you won't beat it all at one time.

Failure is when you don't get up one more time then you got knocked down! Period.

Quit feeling sorry and beating on your self, pick yourself up by your bootstraps and dust yer skinny li'l butt off and start over!

Folks, this pup and I go back a ways...gave him his nickname... and I love him too much to enable.

You will learn anew each stumble... hanging with drinkers till you're well down the road to sobriety is always going to stack the odds.

Learn from it and move on! Like they told me living in MT, "if'n you ain't been bucked off a horse, you ain't rid much!"

So you got bucked off the "wagon"... get back up and climb aboard.

As AA says, you'll always be an alcoholic...but you can be sober a long, long time!

here, take my hand and quit wallerin... happens to the best.  Cowboy up, buckeroo, I got yer back!

[motormouth]

Oh Doc, where were you when i was grownin up      
oh yeah i forgot, you were at Bmore. we do go back a long ways. and yes, everyone, you can thank the Great Doc Noc for my nickname. Between him and Killy, i didn't know whether id make it out of my first Bmore shoot alive       but your right Doc, and i am thankful to have someone like you to kick my "Skinny li'l Butt".
   

[Doc Nock]

No "Greatness" here, but I love you too much, KId, to let you wallow. That is for male elk, not male children of God!

Thank you for vindicating my "rant".  You already knew in your heart that you will stumble on this path to recovery. It's a fact, not a license to go screw up when you want.

You knew the risks were high when you hung with your drinking buds.  Now you learned something.  Change the behavior, eliminate the risks, reduce the stumbling blocks!

ONe of my personal dittys: "If you're a diabetic or an alcoholic, you will always BE a diabetic or an alcoholic! That never changes, but what changes is HOW we handle those issues. Diabetics don't often work in candy factories and alcoholics don't work as bartenders."

Let your own light shine, Matt! You have much to offer this world. Don't let a small thing like a slip into infaturation with the buzz of the brew, change God's destiny for you!

Git er done, Son! Each new day is another chance!

[Killdeer]

Amen, Motormouth and Doc!

Killdeer   :D

[motormouth]

Killie, Don't encourage him
   

[Doc Nock]

Hey, PUP!

Killie loves you same as I do... and I don't need no encouragement!

Were you just in VA still, she and I'd hook up and come whup yer hiney together till you could not sit, let alone think about wavering from your goal!    

Seriously, Bud, how goes it. Shoot me a note or give a call... want to know a bout that photo thing at the bottom of your last personal email...what's that about?

You got lots to share... git to it!  

hugs, li'l bro...keep the Son in your eyes!

[Hooked]

As my daughter said "God is the bestest doctor of all!"  He is also the bestest sponsor and bestest friend of all.  Talk to him...he is always there and listening and ready to help!

[bayoulongbowman]

Find other things to do, read more, Get help. I pray for you, be the man! mark