I was going to post on strange brew’s thread about all of us being teachers. We all are teachers and we are students all the time whither we want to be or not. Neville is a teacher of where self will takes us, and a teacher of the fruits of blind denial. Of his lack of seeing what part his victim-hood played in how his life turned out. He is paying a heavy price to carry that message to us, it is our responsibility to see that it does not go to waste.
Rayna, you said it better than I when you said “If you're not the problem, there is no solution” With your permission, I will use that one like I wrote it myself. That’s really good.

Then I read that you were feeling a little burned out. Again, we are not alone. Every man or woman who has spent any time at all around the rooms has felt that way. It’s human nature. Our enthusiasm for this program waxes and wanes as time goes by. But the old-timers I listen to the hardest have one thing in common, they stay convinced.

Have you heard of the HALT saying? Don’t get hungry, angry lonely, or tired? Maybe working all those hours is part of your feelings of burn out. Eat well, get as much rest as possible ask for help, and say thank you when you get it, And hold on to the thought “I don't want to do that. I don't want to drink.”

If you were thorough with your step work, you don’t need to redo it with your new sponsor, can if you want, but don’t have to. Keep moving forward, take a woman with less time than you to a meeting, and after the meeting, go get a piece of pie with her. Put yourself out a little, be a little inconvenienced. I guarantee while you are listening to her tell you about her troubles, you will be as far from a drink as you will ever be.

And relax, you are right where you are supposed to be. And you are going right where you are supposed to be going.

Your friend on the road to the good stuff,
Richard