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Good Morning GamTalk community
I have been on this site for a couple months now, my daily check in here, has helped keep me grounded and aware that my addiction to gambling was destroying my life. Like many I joined GamTalk after hitting rock bottom, admitting to myself and my husband that I had a serious gambling problem. I don’t go to church, but I am a spiritual person, I believe there is a bigger picture I don’t quite understand, and that okay but I have come to understand that my old life was destroying me, and I needed to change it beige it succeeded. Change takes time, it takes hard work and a concrete plan. If I say I want to stop being an addict, how will I achieve that. I have hard to ask myself a lot of hard questions these past months.
What events in my life occurred to bring me to this point, I’ve had to look at triggers, and take a hard look at things I have covered up for years. Self awareness, honesty, surrender, being mindful have helped me each morning with a renewed sense of control, hope and optimism. Right now I am working on becoming the best version of me, I am a work in progress, and I think I will always be . I will admit that the 12 steps, I have never thought them before I signed up to GamTalk but I have realized the12 steps are the Foundation to my Recovery. Every day, I remember it is one step at a time, but my steps are moving me forward to becoming the best version of me
My hope for today for our GamTalk Community is we will start building a strong foundation of recovery in our lives, step by step.

We admitted we were powerless over gambling – that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to a normal way of thinking and living.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this Power of our own understanding.
Made a searching and fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have these defects of character removed.
Humbly asked God (of our understanding) to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Having made an effort to practice these principles in all our affairs, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive gamblers.