At the beginning of the year I tried my hand at sobriety and made it two weeks! Longest I had gone without drinking in a decade. I went wedding dress shopping and had a martini with the girls in celebration of finding “the dress”. I’ve been drinking since then. Not every night like I used to but enough to make me remember how good those two weeks of clearmindedness felt. So here I am… haven’t had a drink since Friday. I can do this.
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Good for you. Fighting alongside you…
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I use the word “never drink” this helps my mis-wired brain accept it. I would lie if I said, I never think about drinking. When the brain says, want to drink? I just repeat to myself I never drink. I’ll read my journal notes on my phone, I’ll pull up webpages on my phone and read them. Normally, by then the thought is fleeting. There is no reward for me to drink, except hangovers and feeling like crap.
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Hi @Apoc you can do this! But no matter what keep coming back.
Here is a useful thread on getting through early recovery:
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I like this approach! Thank you!