Awakening Into A New Way of Life

September 19, 1989 is my sober date. I had been drinking for more than 20 years, the last 15 every day, and the last five including mornings if I didn’t have to go to work. It was getting steadily worse and I was getting angrier, more isolated, more fearful and more suicidal. So I got to AA with a very low emotional, mental and spiritual bottom. Turns out, for me, that was the best way to get there. I was willing to do anything since I had no idea what to do on my own.