1) Don't USE (drink, drug, etc)! Remember, it's one day at a time. Don't use, just for today!
2) People, Places and Things:
3) Call your SPONSOR, or if he's not available,
4) Call another Recovering Person
5) Make a meeting today!
6) You are online now, so get to a Recovery chat room and let folks know you need help.
7) You can't afford to be prejudiced. Accept help from anyone - even an XTIAN!
8) Remember your Higher Powers and invoke them.
9) Do something constructive!
THINK! Think it through. If you get an urge, think it through. Think of what the eventual results will be - unpleasant! Think about the damage it will cause. Think about positive measures you can employ to overcome that desire.
FIRST THINGS FIRST. Remember your priroities. Your Recovery comes first, because without it, all else will be lost. Keep your priorities in order, First things come first.
LIVE AND LET LIVE. Take care of yourself. What others do, believe, or feel is none of your business. Leave them alone. They have their rights, as do you.
BUT FOR THE GOODNESS OF THE GODS... The only difference between you and the people who still suffer is that you got the message, they didn't. Count it as the generosity of the Gods and be thankful. Remember this, and don't be quick to condemn those who still suffer.
EASY DOES IT. Don't force or push or rush. Take things one step at a time, at your own pace. EASY does it. As one sage said, FORCE repels a thing ,EASE draws it to you. Take the easy approach.
PUT GRATITUDE IN YOUR ATTITUDE. Don't fret over what somebody else has; don't worry over things you don't have. Don't grumble over things you lost. Be grateful for what you have right now. When you're grateful, you focus on the real things in your life and therefore use them to your advantage. What you don't have is not a reality in your life. Neither are the things you lost. Be thankful for what you have and use it. You will find that you have plenty to make it through the day.
YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. Millions of others are in Recovery with you. Millions! Your Higher Powers are with you, too. You are never alone. Help is only an invocation away, a phone call away, a meeting away. Remember that you fight this fight in the company of millions, with the support of the Gods.
Is it worth it? ALWAYS ASK YOURSELF : IS IT WORTH IT? That is the one question that can save your life.
No matter how bad it looks, someone else has been where you are now. Someone else has made it without using, drinking, drugging, etc. You can get through this. You might not like what you have to do; you might not like what you have to give up. Like it or not, you can make it through. It is like a tunnel. It may not be pleasant to go through, and you might come out the other side with less than when you started, but if you do the right thing you will come out on the other side. From there, you can regain anything you lost.
Millions of people are in Recovery. Millions of people from all cultures and races and nations and religions. Whoever you are, whatever you are, there are many just like you who are in Recovery. It works for them and it will work for you. So don't despair. You aren't alone out on a limb. You are one of many, and in that there is the promise of success.