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Who Answers?Addiction recovery can be a lifelong journey, which is why some recovering addicts may feel overwhelmed when beginning the path to sobriety with Alcoholics Anonymous. But accomplishing a set of milestones along the way can accelerate your recovery progress, and help you feel more enlightened as you continue navigating through life without alcohol.
Though certain milestones may seem relatively easy to overcome, know that reaching each of these milestones is a huge, major step toward accomplishing and fulfilling your goal of sobriety.
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Here are six major milestones you can work toward accomplishing throughout your journey to sobriety with AA.
1. Eliminate Sin From Your Life
Focusing on the positives will help you stay on track throughout your recovery.
Eliminating negative behaviors, thoughts, and emotions from your daily life can help you make smarter, healthier choices for yourself. Greed, selfishness, and anger are examples of emotions and behaviors that when eliminated, can help you stay straight on the path to sobriety.
Instead of focusing on the negatives surrounding recovery from alcoholism, focus on all the pros to becoming sober, such as improved energy levels, relationships, and mental clarity.
2. Develop Humility
Humility is a common trait among recovering alcoholics, especially when sobriety brings past mistakes and transgressions to the forefront during recovery. Humility can also be defined as a willingness to learn and keep an open mind.
If you’re able to develop humility, you can experience a sense of forgiveness from your higher power and find the strength to move forward.
3. Practice Charity
Helping others and expecting nothing in return is an act of practicing love for yourself and for others. This milestone is similar to the 12th step of AA, which involves sharing the story behind your spiritual awakening to inspire and help other AA members and alcoholics with finding their own paths to enlightenment.
4. Give Thanks for Blessings
As you work toward achieving lifelong sobriety, pause every now and then to meditate, give thanks, and appreciate the small blessings in life. Treasure relationships that are now mended and repaired on behalf of your seeking sobriety, and give thanks to those who have forgiven your past transgressions.
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5. Look to a Higher Power for Guidance
Surrender yourself to your higher power in times of need, and ask for guidance as you face difficult challenges along the path to sobriety. Praying or looking to your high power for guidance can help you find the strength and motivation you need to steer clear of drinking, negative influences, and negative thoughts that interfere with your recovery.
6. Seek Companionship with Others Seeking Spiritual Lives
Surrounding yourself with others striving toward your same goals and milestones is an effective way to stay on track with sobriety. These positive influences can make you feel better about recovery from alcoholism, and offer the support and guidance you need to overcome challenging daily obstacles.
Fortunately, the best way to find these like-minded individuals is to attend AA meetings and network with other recovering addicts.
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