Such valuable advice and compassionate perspective, Keri! Blessings for continued peace and sobriety. I’m keeping this for a time I can share with a loved one ❤️
Thank you Keri for your wise words and very helpful suggestions. Having been sober for over 40 years now (I had to stop and count out the years) your words took me back to those early challenges of newly formed sobriety. I was raised in a small rural community in Alberta Canada where my wife and I farmed. Alcohol consumption was a main stay of community life and central in my family of origin. When I became a Christian and quit drinking my community life changed drastically. For the first few years I felt like an outsider. Negotiating my new sense of being was a difficult journey but a joyous one. Suggestions that you have offered are very helpful hooks to hang your hat on as one negotiates new paths of being.
How wonderful that you have had people approach you, sua sponte, seeking some guidance as to how to find their way to sober! Did you ever imagine the fullness of life and the gifts that would come your way when you first contemplated "depriving" yourself of alcohol?
Such valuable advice and compassionate perspective, Keri! Blessings for continued peace and sobriety. I’m keeping this for a time I can share with a loved one ❤️
Thank you Keri for your wise words and very helpful suggestions. Having been sober for over 40 years now (I had to stop and count out the years) your words took me back to those early challenges of newly formed sobriety. I was raised in a small rural community in Alberta Canada where my wife and I farmed. Alcohol consumption was a main stay of community life and central in my family of origin. When I became a Christian and quit drinking my community life changed drastically. For the first few years I felt like an outsider. Negotiating my new sense of being was a difficult journey but a joyous one. Suggestions that you have offered are very helpful hooks to hang your hat on as one negotiates new paths of being.
How wonderful that you have had people approach you, sua sponte, seeking some guidance as to how to find their way to sober! Did you ever imagine the fullness of life and the gifts that would come your way when you first contemplated "depriving" yourself of alcohol?