In my experience calling other members has really helped me. It helps me get out of my head and into the light. If you want, id be glad to speak. Email me for my number: dms1234ongye@gmail.com

Hi and a gutte voch
On shabbos I came across a wonderful shtickel from the piasetzna about resentments and fears maybe later i'll elaborate but anyone can check it out themselves its in "tzav veziruz" which is printed in the back of the "hachsharas avreichim" ois daled
have an awesome day

Hello Chevra just got a new sponsor
he's starting me on my 1st step 
gave me a lot of homework i'm very happy with that i think because then i'm progressively working on my illness not just sitting back to "dry out" which, frankly, wasn't working
i'm excited i came to SA to work the steps but my previous sponsors all said you need x days of sobriety to do the steps 
have a gr8 day

Find your truth. Some people need to hit the ground running with the steps and some don't. Keep it up.

GrowStrong wrote on 22 Jun 2017 23:08:


In that case you agree with Cords. God doesn't care.

mikestruggling wrote on 29 May 2017 22:41:

Someone looking for me? 

mikestruggling wrote on 01 Jun 2017 19:25:

From one SA to another. We don't cause people to be nicshal or stop them from being nicshal. We can only share what worked for us and hope that helps others. 

The three C's of S-Anon. We didn't cause it, we can't cure it, and we can't control it.

Shlomo24 wrote on 28 Jul 2017 02:28:

I've never heard that before my wife does not know i'm in program maybe i my next letter to my wife for whe  tell her i'll put that in "you didn't cause it you can't cure it you can't control it"
or something to that effect maybe cure is too strong for when she's just finding ou it insinuates that this is a disease (which it is but she doesn't know that i'd rather her see it as a bad habit)

Hi guys
let's hope next year we'll all be in yerushalayim i hope moshiach is gonna have a HUGE truck parking lot for all of our trucks big and small even for our tricycles because us who struggle and (try to) do what we can who are bringing the geula closer each and every day
i just spoke to my sponsor my bottom line what i really have to work on for now is not touching myself
i've found that my greatest problem is isolation and when i am in that place of isolation i feel like i want to act out its ridiculous a day later i feel worse than a piece of trash and reminding myself of that does not help neither does reminding myself how good i feel if i don't act out the only thing that has worked for me in the past is a phone call preferably a long phone call with someone from SA after that i usually feel like a million bucks (roughly 3.7 million shekel)
have an awesome day

hi a gutten erev shabbos
i just heard some devastating news and instead of getting depressed about it likei would done before i made a phone call and shared and spoke it through. i'm still in pain i even cried a couple of times but i'm not depressed and i hope i won't act out i daven that Hashem should take away the bad emotions which usually make me act out.
Besurois Toivois
Hashem please be menachem us all bimheira beyomeinu

mikestruggling wrote on 04 Aug 2017 14:28:

Sorry to hear that. May Hashem send lots of meaning and נחמה your way. Hang in there as much as you can, I'd love to say confidently that you'll get through this, honestly, I can't say that because I don't know what it is that is putting you through so much pain. However, sometimes when I'm feeling very down I focus on how, in my life, I've gone through a number of difficult times and no matter what is was, I've always managed to survive - after all, here I am. This helps we when I'm feeling like I'm utterly screwed. Mike, I sincerely hope this helps you, even if only a little. Wishing you lots of ברכה & happiness.

BB

May Hashem help that it all work out for the best. Its great that you didn't turn to your drug of acting out to relieve the pain. Hatzlocha.

hi guys
i called someone from SA last night. i'm now in a downhill roll (?) i want it to stop but i am powerless so i can't just use my own will. so this guy told me i should make a fear and gratitude list you write whatever you fear on a paper and whatever you're grateful for then you call someone and share it when you're done the fears he asks why do you fear this and you answer because i am no letting G-d run my life i want to run my life which doesn't work 
it's the unabridged version of what HHM has been telling me all along write down ten things you're grateful to Hashem for
have an awesome day

mikestruggling wrote on 08 Aug 2017 03:47:

Keep on trying and doing the next right thing. My experience was that it took a while before I got sober. It will happen when it happens. Respect the process.