How Do I Get Sober

How do I get sober, I am sure there is more than one way. I know that Facebook or Instagram have people explain all the time. I also read a lot of them go back to their vice then try to stop again. There really is no hack for this. 

The Internet statistics taken from recovery facilities say this:

Recovery rates, About 36% of people with alcoholism recover after one year. However, recovery rates are lower for people with severe or lifetime alcohol dependence

Treatment success, About one-third of people who receive treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) have no symptoms a year later.

Less than 20% of those in outpatient programs maintain complete sobriety for an entire year. Four out of 10 are at 40% risk for relapse after two years of sobriety. Five years' worth of sobriety highly decreases the chance of relapse but doesn't extinguish it entirely.

How Do I Get Sober?
This Is How You Get Sober!

I am going to tell you a true story. This story is without exaggeration. It is a proven way to get sober, change your life and succeed. So not to bore you I will give you the highlights.

I started drinking and doing drugs around 13 or 14 years old. My parents only drank socially. For the most part they were good and loving. I did have some childhood trauma. I was hit by a car at 7 years old and had over a 100 stitches to close up my forehead. There also was some other negative experiences. Why did I stat drinking? I do not have a good answer. I had a lot of behavioral problems and was suspended numerous time from Jr High School. I was ask to leave school completely in 12 grade. I left CT for Miami, FL and slept in the park for a while. After a couple of unsuccessful years I went back to CT.  

Relationships, work, and interaction with family was tough. I had gotten pneumonia and the bacteria ate a hole in my aortic valve. Around 24 years old I had open heart surgery to fix it. This entire time by now I was drinking and doing drugs daily. I had to stop this behavior for 6 weeks prior to surgery. A nurse I had met in FL came  to CT to help take care of me. The Demerol after the operation was welcomed. 6 weeks after the operation I was back in FL drinking and doing drugs daily. Makes you wonder where my head was, especially after my cardiologist told me that if I continued my lifestyle, I would be dead by 30 years old.  Believe it or not this whole time I was just waiting to die. I will leave out some of the horror stories. At around 35 years old I had gotten a DUI and was told by the court, I could go to rehab or jail. I went to rehab. It was a 60 day treatment facility. So for the next 60 days I would have a lot of emotions, and not have the tools to deal with them. Not being able to leave was the hardest. They say that your emotional growth is stopped around the time you start becoming a alcoholic. Now I am faced with making adult decisions with the mind of a teenager. I met some good people in rehab and I started to get a picture of what it would to be sober. Not knowing it at the time this would be my first spiritual awakening. At this time I made a conscious decision to do everything I had to to stay sober. 4 of us from rehab got a 4 bedroom apt so we could help each other stay sober. For the next 6 months I worked full time and went to an AA meeting everyday. I got a sponsor, who ended up being a friend and a blessing. I worked the steps and did well. We did have 1 of us 4 go back to drinking, and we asked him to move out. Staying sober was very hard. There was times that I thought I would fail. 6 months after being sober I had to go to court for another DUI and accident. I was sentenced to 6 months in jail. My sponsor had been working with me to find my higher power. I did not believe anything until I got sober. I believe now looking back this time was a blessing, because I had been to everything I needed. I new 4 people in jail. To my surprise I was let out after 4 days because of over crowding. Looking back on this time these where all blessings that I was receiving. The way the universe works is cause and effect. I did not know this at the time. Along with jail I lost my drivers license for 1 year. So I rode a bicycle to work and meetings, when I could not get a ride. My sponsor stared taking me to spiritual retreats. I also had a therapist who helped me to go to workshops for my anger and my growth. 

For the 1st five years I went to a meeting 5 days a week. It was not always easy, and my ups and downs hard. Over this time I had many blessings. People came into my life that where helpful in many ways.

My spirituality started to grow, and I read lots of books. All these things that were happening allowed me to work on me. I read this book by Louise Hay called You Can Heal Your Life. This changed my life. This changed my life in a profound way.  I realized that if I wanted to be sober, not just stopping drinking and doing drugs, I would need to take my life a step further than AA. This is not a negative statement about the program, just that my experience watching people with as many as 25 years sober go back and drink. For me I had to have more. There was no way I was going to fail. Louise Hay was a Science of Mind Minister. After searching in CT and not finding any I found SOM churches in NY. So every Sunday My wife and I would go. Immediately I knew this was were I needed to be. I got a job with Metro North Railroad and this allowed me to take the train for free. I started taking spiritual lessons 3 days a week in NY. A friend from class allowed me to stay at her apt because I was also working out of NY. I wanted to teach what I was learning so I applied to the state of Ct to be tax exempt as a church.  New Thought Healing Center of CT was born, I put an ad in the SOM magazine for a study group and people started coming.

After a while I stated teaching the classes I was taken in NY. So as I finished a level I taught It. Eventually I started services on Sundays. I never stopped learning and growing. I became a SOM Minister and a lot of changes in my life continue to happen all for the better. After starting my own business and moving several times the best way to continue my ministry was to start this website Metaphysics For Better Living. How do I get sober was written to give you an idea. Is this the only way? I do know that short cuts do not work long term. Not drinking and doing drugs does not insure happiness.

I do know if you read this website it will give you a head start.

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