Thanks for Letting Me Share: This book contains 368 quotes that I have heard from recovering addicts and alcoholics. They are profound, funny, cringe-worthy, memorable, and powerful. They will allow you to reflect, remember and reassess your recovery. This book is has three parts: Getting Here, Staying Here, and Higher Power.

By Steven J McDonald

This book contains 368 quotes that I have heard from recovering addicts and alcoholics. They are profound, funny, cringe-worthy, memorable and powerful. They will allow you to reflect, remember and reassess your recovery. This book has three parts: Getting Here, Staying Here, and Higher Power.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven McDonald
• Release date: Aug 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781088065501

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This book contains quotes that I have heard from recovering addicts and alcoholics. They are profound, funny, cringe worthy, memorable, and powerful. All proceeds for this book are used to buy more books and are sent to drug and alcohol treatment centers across the USA. We can only keep what we have by giving it away. This book is broken up into three parts: Getting Here, Staying Here, and Higher Power. Some of us came in, came to believe, and stayed. Some of us came in and left. Some of us came in, left, and came back. This book takes something from all of them and we continue to pray for those who haven’t made it here yet.

                                         GETTING HERE

Taking that first drink or drug is like having sex with a gorilla. It’s over when the gorilla says it is.

So you’re a tough guy huh? Yeah….sigh…we bury a lot of you guys.

An alcoholic will go to a football game with thousands of people in the stands, look down at the players in the huddle and think they are talking about him.

Change the behavior first which will then change the thinking.

In early recovery it is common to have an emotional enema. This happens for all the times we were too numb to feel.

I had the knowledge but not the credentials.

DENIAL - Didn’t Even No I Was Lying.

I found myself jealous of people in casts and crutches because I knew they were getting strong pain pills.

I have a better chance of swimming across the Atlantic than I do of using successfully!

Bad things happen to alcoholics who drink.

I tried to fit the square peg into the round hole and I used my head to do it.

The self-centeredness part of this disease had me thinking what you’re thinking of me.

Kid, don’t worry about what they say about you always picking up white key tags because in three months they’re not gonna be around anyways!

My problem is the first drink.

We rationalize and justify to minimize.

"There are gin mills that serve food and there are restaurants that serve alcohol. Well, this was a gin mill that served food. I was a few months sober and my wife asked me if I wanted to leave because I felt uncomfortable. I told