Home Tools Interactive worksheets & more Recovering from a drinking episode when your goal is to quit
Remember, each day is a new day to start over.	Although it can be unsettling to slip, you don't have to continue drinking. You are responsible for your choices.
Understand that setbacks are common when people undertake a major change. It's your progress in the long run that counts.
Don't run yourself down. It doesn't help. Don't let feelings of discouragement, anger, or guilt stop you from asking for help and getting back on track.
Get some help. Contact your counselor or a sober and supportive friend right away to talk about what happened, or go to an AA or other mutual-help meeting.
Think it through. With a little distance, work on your own or with support to better understand why the episode happened at that particular time and place.
Learn from what happened. Decide what you need to do so that it won't happen again, and write it down. Use the experience to strengthen your commitment.
Avoid triggers to drink. Get rid of any alcohol at home. If possible, avoid revisiting the situation in which you drank.
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I was poking around the Flea Market the other day, I wasn’t having the best of luck as far as finding things for myself. I found some cool toys that I might be able to swap or sell down the line like a Sectaur and some other such stuff from the 80’s but I hadn’t yet found anything that tickled my retro nerve.
That’s ok though it sometimes happens like that but then just like flipping a switch from off to on I found something. Something that I totally wanted. The Fisher Price Adventure People Daredevil Sports Van
It was at the bottom of a random box of cars and trucks that was sitting in a space between seller’s spots. I thought maybe at first it was up for grabs. People do that sometimes, leave boxes of stuff behind that they think they can’t sell. You can find good stuff there occasionally. Anyway, this wasn’t that. It was some dude’s sum merchandise. I mean it was all he brought. I guess maybe earlier in the day he had individual prices for the cars but this was long past then so he’d boxed em’ all up for an I’ve got to go sale price.
I really only wanted the Adventure People Van I was stoked because I have the 2 figures that come with it already. One of them is a kayak guy and the other is a bow legged motorcycle rider. I have the bike too but not the kayak or the parachute parts that come with set. It’s a good play-set. It really covers the whole gambit of 70’s X-Treme sports. You have Moto-Cross and Parachutes and Kayaks. You could fully do that move from The Cannonball Run where the host of Win Lose Or Draw jumps out of a plane on a motorcycle if you wanted to, and had a plane I guess.
So I asked the dude and he quoted me the sky high price of 5 dollars. I didn’t even haggle and had the box in my arms before he’d have a chance to change his mind. Boom! I had it and was totally ecstatic.
?I really love Adventure People. They are so intentionally generic that they the whole line of toys is just brilliant. You have everything from nurses to Motocross riders. What makes it so genius is why pay for the right to license an existing property when there are a million great adventures taking place all around us that you can use for absolutely free. Imagine the savings.
There were some other cool cars in the box as well. One of them is really neat, it’s a Remco Monkee Mobile from 1970. It’s missing the roof but I’m not too worried about that. I wish I had it but considering that I paid pretty much nothing for it I’m fine with the deal.
One of the cool things about the flea market is how quickly things can turn around. One minute I had nothing but a Sectaur and the next minute I’m going home with one of my new favorite things. It can all change just like that. I guess in reality everything is like that in someway huh? Oh well, I guess know that we should try and appreciate all of it right? You take the good, you take the bad you take them both and there you have The Facts Of Life, never have those words rung truer than they are right now…
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It was a pretty slow week at the flea market. There wasn’t as many vendors as usual and those that were there […]
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>> Knocking on doors to pose an old question, is there support out there for a Scottish independence? Scottish nationalists preparing to fan out across the country in their tens of thousands hoping to convince Scots to back a second independence vote. First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, set to announce her charm offensive on Friday.
Reuters' Liz O'Leary in Edinburgh says her SNP are hoping to find a Brexit-shaped foot in doors that were once firmly closed.>> If Brexit looks like it might be a soft Brexit then Scots may be encouraged to stick with the UK even if it's leaving the EU. Whereas if Brexit looks like it's gonna be a hard Brexit with lots of curbs on immigration and a lot of politically unpalatable changes for Scotland, then Scots may want the warm embrace of the SNP and Sturgeon's party.
>> Support here to stay in the EU was 62% and the outcome to leave has had some disgruntled Scots posing questions again, even those who once voted no to independence back in 2014. While most Scots don't back independence, opinion polls have narrowed. Sturgeon says she won't ask the question without backing from voters.
For her, this could be make or break.>> Her career and her success, I think, depends on whether or not she can win another referendum. But she has to keep the possibility of independence in the background because her voters want it. They are the main independence party and her voters support independence and as long as she has it on a back burner they will be happy, and at the same time she can kind of use it as a threat to the UK government in London.
>> For now, Sturgeon is just testing the waters. Do Scots want to be part of a non-EU Britain? Why did people vote against independence in 2014? And what might entice them to change their minds in the future?
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