I’ve been having a particularly hard time lately with LIFE. My stressors are weighing very heavy on me right now and I can’t escape it. I’m 85 days sober today and all I can think about is wanting to feel numb, even just for a few minutes. My nervous system is under attack right now and I’m looking for ways to calm it down.
What healthy alternatives can you offer? I’m keeping my sobriety but whoa these mixtures of harsh feelings are become excruciatingly painful.
Great question, i think lean into anything that makes you happy…do yourself a happy list…write everything and anything down that makes you happy and feel good and then try to do those things, even just simple things like a nice warm bath, favourite foods, people, places, pictures, photographs… most important of all when u feel like this is to treat yourself with kindness and humility…its absolutely ok to not feel ok sometimes but know that it will pass. Welcome to the site, glad your here, love and hugs 
There are physiological ways to calm down the nervous system. Look up parasympathetic breathing, and the physiological sigh.
Try these for 10-15 minutes. See what you think.
This world we live in does havoc on our nervous systems. You aren’t alone.
Run. Lift weights. Cold shower. Sexy time. Anything where you can get into a flow state.