Sponsorship

Sponsorship is a term that is usually associated with sports. Teams, athletes, and race car drivers have sponsors who pay them in exchange for allowing their logos to be placed on their uniforms and race cars or by having them use their products on television. The sponsorship I am here to tell you about is alcohol recovery sponsorship. Like the sponsors associated with sports, an alcohol recovery sponsor agrees to work with someone in exchange for something. An alcohol sponsor offers their experience in recovery in exchange for keeping themselves sober by focusing on helping you recover. However, this is where the similarities end.

 Unlike a sports sponsor, alcohol sponsors do not get any type of monetary payment in exchange for their services. They are recovering alcoholics who are trying to remain sober as well. A sponsor is someone of the same sex which allows the help and support to remain recovery focused. Besides, men and women relate better to people of the same sex which will allow the quality of recovery to be much greater. So, men sponsor men and women sponsor women. Good sponsors are people who have a sponsor that has a sponsor and so on. A person actually learns to build a relationship with their sponsor in order to progress in recovery. They are there to hold an alcoholic accountable, even when no one else can. After an alcoholic decides to get sober, they need guidance in order to learn how to function in society. This is where the alcohol sponsor comes in.

Sponsors in alcohol recovery work with their sponsors in order to gain insight on how to advise another person in recovery, and by doing this they are able to hold a new recovering alcoholic accountable in order to help them function in society. Sponsors aid in this progression back into society by helping the alcoholic recognize the part they play in life situations. They also help this person to make amends to people that they have hurt along the way. Sponsors do not lend money, but they will offer advice on how to pay your bills and budget your money. Although a sponsor is there to help a person stay sober, they cannot keep them sober. They can only offer their help through their own experiences, and it is up to the alcoholic to make the final decision.

Let’s recap. A sponsor works for free, and they work with other alcoholics in order to help other people achieve sobriety. This, in turn, also helps the sponsor to remain sober because they are focused on helping another person. Through this relationship, recovering alcoholics learn to do life together without turning to alcohol. If you are considering getting sober and need a sponsor, please feel free to contact me and I will either be your sponsor or help guide you in the right direction to obtaining one.