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Question1: Summer fun includes weekend BBQ’s and picnics. What’s your favorite
summer-time beverage?
The beverage I enjoy is an Arnold Palmer: half ice tea and half lemonade.
~Art S.
Tropical Fruit Smoothie!
~Cindy G.
Lemon/Cherry or Limeade is always good. The best beverage on a hot day is a large chocolate shake.
~James R.
Don’t sample the punch until someone you know samples it first.
~Jerry P.
Strawberry and Raspberry Lemonades and Teas, Cucumber
Water, Iced Caramel Macchiato and other iced coffee drinks,
Honey Ginseng Lemon Iced Tea, Iced Green Tea with
Spearmint/Mint Leaf....that’s just a few!
~Vance L.
I focus on all of the beverages “I can have and enjoy,” and do
NOT focus on “what I can’t have.” Also I can bring a small
cooler of my own choices.
~Kathleen U.
Orange or grapefruit juice with Club Soda and a lemon wedge!
Really good!
~Tom H.
Lemonade! It is a great summer drink and still looks “cool”.
In early sobriety, I always attended gatherings with a buddy
to help me out and keep me in check; if not, I avoided those
situations - not always the fun choice, but my
substance abuse treatment
and sobriety was the most important thing.
~Linda M.
On a hot summer day, I have to admit, nothing sounds better
than an ice cold beer. Attractive as that may sound, I have
learned to “play it out” in my head. I know all too well, how
the story goes, and where it will lead. So I have learned to
replace that with ice tea instead. Also, since pancreatitis is
what about killed me a year and a half ago, I have acquired a
taste for fruit smoothies. I even have one of those Ninja
blenders, lol. Have a great summer!
~Tony M.
Water, Soda, and a drink from the fountain of
SOBRIETY!!
Question: Summer is just around the corner - and there is typically a lot of partying.
What can a newcomer expect and how will summer fun be different?
You will remember the fun and there will likely be a whole
lot less drama involved.
~Jared M.
It’s best to stick with the winners. There are new
substance abuse treatment
and
AA
friends to have fun with and they will really understand where
you are coming from.
~Marolyn G.
Most AA & NA groups
in this area sponsor camp outs,
suppers and speaker meetings during the course of the
summer. Being an active AA member helps because there
always seems to be somewhere to go or someone to go with.
~Joe F.
Change is just that-change. You can’t expect to change if
you do not change what, where and with whom you
associate. Change only occurs when you make the effort
to evaluate each situation PRIOR to getting in it.
~Jay R.
I enjoy golfing, fishing camping and other
substance abuse treatment functions
throughout the summer. When I got clean, I thought all
the fun and good times were over, but I learned quickly
that they were just beginning.
~Dagwood C.
A newcomer needs to have the caution light on....to protect
something as precious as sobriety. Pick and choose summer
fun carefully. It’s important to not fall in to the stinkin’
thinkin’ of, well, maybe it wasn’t all that bad.
~Kelly F.
I know after several years sober, I spend my summers with
close friends and family in non-drinking situations. These
situations are much more comfortable for me and I wake up
the next day not hung over and with no regrets. My prayers
go out to all newcomers. It may be hard sometimes, but it
is worth it.
~Heather H.
Outside of holidays, summer time was the hardest to get
used to when I got through
substance abuse treatment.
When going to meetings, make
an effort to get to know people and hang around with others
who are sober. Getting involved is the key to making the
sober life transition easier and more fun!
~Amy S.
My first SUMMER out of
substance abuse treatment
was my toughest. The FIRST is the scariest because it is fear of the unknown.
How am I going to react? Will it be fun? Will I be too weak
to say no? The Big Book tells us COURAGE is simply having
FEAR and doing it ANYWAY! It is like going to your FIRST
meeting. Once you get over the hurdle of the FIRST you
begin to relax a little and before you know it you are actually
enjoying the event.
~Libby H.
This will be my second summer of sobriety and until now I
didn’t realize how much fun it is to actually get out and do
things with my kids and husband sober. Love seeing the
happiness in their faces when before I was just dying to get
home and take that first drink!
~Cara S.
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