Hi. My name is Tommy and I am a proud member of Alcoholics Anonymous. I have been happily clean and sober for over a year and am feeling great. Recently I heard about a book entitled Sober is My New Drunk, written by a man named Paul Carr, which quickly became a hot topic in my recovery group. For Carr's a sort-of" higher power" that he has chosen to help him is something that can also be used to stalk ex-lovers and play Farmville, and that is social media.
Carr writes, "When I decided to quit drinking, and when I realized that AA wasn't for me, I knew I'd have to find a route to sobriety that was as public as possible. I knew that the only way I'd be able to reverse my reputation as a boozer would be to tell the whole world-or at least the part of the world I lived in-that I was quitting. Fortunately, we live in a time when it's easier than ever to share our secrets with friends and strangers alike. Thanks to Facebook and Twitter and blogging and video sharing and all that good stuff, a decision to give up drinking can easily be publicized for all to see. So I fired up my laptop and wrote an open letter on my blog, explaining that I had a serious problem with alcohol and asking for the support of those around me.
I was lucky. I had a reasonably well-read blogs and a few thousand Twitter followers. After writing my The Trouble with Drink, The Trouble With Me post, roughly 250,000 people clicked on the link to read it. That was a major incentive to stick to my promise.
Carr says he was lucky he found this avenue when he did and became successful in it. . Posting on Facebook, Twitter, or another social media site for just your friends to see will have almost the same effect as posting on a blog. Only when Carr did it he was not only trying to help himself he was also giving hope to others that they could fish bat their own problem. This became a major incentive to Carr.
Maybe Paul Carr in on to something here. I mean who am I to say that recovery need only take place in the rooms of AA? That might be my personal preference but it might not be some else's. So do whatever you have to do to get yourself on the wagon. I know the familiar smell of burnt coffee calms me, and prepare me to face my demons one hour at a time.
Carr writes, "When I decided to quit drinking, and when I realized that AA wasn't for me, I knew I'd have to find a route to sobriety that was as public as possible. I knew that the only way I'd be able to reverse my reputation as a boozer would be to tell the whole world-or at least the part of the world I lived in-that I was quitting. Fortunately, we live in a time when it's easier than ever to share our secrets with friends and strangers alike. Thanks to Facebook and Twitter and blogging and video sharing and all that good stuff, a decision to give up drinking can easily be publicized for all to see. So I fired up my laptop and wrote an open letter on my blog, explaining that I had a serious problem with alcohol and asking for the support of those around me.
I was lucky. I had a reasonably well-read blogs and a few thousand Twitter followers. After writing my The Trouble with Drink, The Trouble With Me post, roughly 250,000 people clicked on the link to read it. That was a major incentive to stick to my promise.
Carr says he was lucky he found this avenue when he did and became successful in it. . Posting on Facebook, Twitter, or another social media site for just your friends to see will have almost the same effect as posting on a blog. Only when Carr did it he was not only trying to help himself he was also giving hope to others that they could fish bat their own problem. This became a major incentive to Carr.
Maybe Paul Carr in on to something here. I mean who am I to say that recovery need only take place in the rooms of AA? That might be my personal preference but it might not be some else's. So do whatever you have to do to get yourself on the wagon. I know the familiar smell of burnt coffee calms me, and prepare me to face my demons one hour at a time.
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