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How To Celebrate Your Anniversary 🥂

 

Saturday was my 2,000 day soberversary and what better way to celebrate than to do a Facebook livestream! My only intention in life now is to pay forwards what I have learnt about finding freedom; to share it with those that are READY to also experience lifebeyondaddiction.

One of my clients that did the residential retreat last August shared this weekend celebration with me; nine months of sobriety for them, and boy are they rocking it. Read some of what they said in our secret forum below…

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Member Quote Of The Day:

In this section you will read something that has been said by one of the Quantum Sobriety Online Programme members over on the very lively private forum:

“This weekend I celebrate nine months sobriety, which is obviously a hallelujah jazz hands moment. But I was thinking about that terminology. Because it isn’t, and never has been, about alcohol. Why give it that power? In reality I am celebrating nine months of living from my heart, of freedom to become who I truly am, to fully embody who I’ve always been – my true nature. I always feel uncomfortable too, when people mention the ‘wine witch’ – it personifies wine, gives it POWER and legs, a body in fact, when all it is in reality for us is a bottle of hell. A one way road trip to hell. For me, I never want to give my power away today to anything or anyone.I still vividly remember the sights, sounds, smells, the colour of the world, where I was standing, when I knew everything had fallen into place and an internal shift had occurred. No surprise to you all that it was the last day of the full retreat and I had nipped out for a crafty fag!!!!, walked back into Jo and Dom’s garden and whoosh … in that very moment everything changed internally. A quantum moment, a shift.

I have never craved alcohol from that moment. NEVER. I have no interest in it. I buy it for my partner and I could just as well be looking at a bottle of squash. No interest, nothing. So in that way it has been easy. I was sober for a month before the retreat and that was done through terror and gritted teeth. That lifted during the retreat. Vanished. And everything became alive. I was alive. I have remained connected to my heart, to myself and that empty, disconnected and hollow feeling left me. Today I live a life as though I have never been addicted. Incredible.

I have of course felt grief, loneliness, feelings of being unimportant, abandoned, discarded….

But it was a blessing. A gift. Everything I have felt in this time has been a coming home to self. A time for growth. I feel whole and complete for the very first time. I no longer look outside of my self for validation, or love. I am love. That’s not to say I don’t want to be loved, needed and wanted, it means I can survive the deepest grief and remain whole. My core sense of self can’t be taken, or given away today. The huge family breakdown….has helped me to realise that although I want people in my life, I don’t need them in a way I once did. I am whole as I am. Any negative toxicity is a non negotiable for me. I won’t tolerate that today. 

I feel alive, strong and enriched by this journey home to self. Painful and dark at times, but always holding trust that I would be ok…“

L, Residential Retreat and Online Programme

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