Checking in daily to maintain focus #15

[Lisa07]

Congrats on getting a temporary sponsor @Jennajen!

[Bomdhil]

Day 19 sober. The cravings almost disappeared but I know everything is rooted in my mind. I have to change a lot of patterns and old ways and that is hard but really challenging. I need to grow

[crystalclear]

You can do it!! I love seeing your number rise. You’ve fought hard for those 19 days!! Keep up the good work.

[crystalclear]

Oh this post makes me so happy for you!! It really makes a difference to know you have someone you can reach out to each day and who willingly is on the journey with you!

[crystalclear]

Love seeing your number rise Beth. I know these 48 days haven’t been sunshine and rainbows . Keep fighting the good fight.

[MrsOdh]

It might be a hit

[anon12657779]

Mike, great attitude. Something I didn’t learn until my late 40’s and have only really put into action this last two years.
This is where I am,
I am happy to be here,
I am happy to wake up every morning to a new day.
Gratitude is far better for us than the negative shit that just pulls us down.
And exercise is great because it releases endorphins which make us happy anyway.

[Amm]

Day 35. I find I’m having difficulty keeping up with just one thread, this one, and trying to read other threads. I am not able to track conversations-it is overwhelming me. I want to keep up but I am scanning and not reading. So I am not contributing meaningfully or mindfully. My brain is not processing or organizing this forum. I panic trying to keep up. Sorry, guys, that is what is happening to me.

[anon79808082]

You can put any thread you don’t want to keep up with by switching the option to “watch, track, or normal” at the bottom of the thread…or even mute and it won’t pop up. Hang in there!

[Amm]

I did. Thanks…

[M-be-free49]

@anon60334405

I need to take life and just keep learning from it instead of expecting this or that out of it, because Everytime expect to be this far or should have this I make my self miserable.

I love this. Thank you for it.
Glad that you are still here, good days or bad, and glad that the funks have stepped away for a while!

[WCan]

I need… to fill the void

[WCan]

@Hidden

Today was a long day dealing with work. I was driving back to my office to work late on some bids for new jobs and I found myself thinking how nice it would be to have a drink to relax. The thoughts passed and I was in my office only to have the thoughts return. I stacked the bids on the corner of my desk and I left. Work can wait. Jumped in my truck, rolled down the windows, turned my phones off and the music up. In the 20 minutes it took to get home with the wind in my hair and the music in my ears those thoughts were gone.

Little victories, continued steps in the right direction. I can’t go back to where I was, forward is my only option.

Thanks for sharing… Right there is the exact situation where I usually go for the drink because the drink is the only way I let myself slack-off my perfectionism about work or nutrition. I’ve learned a lot in the last years around this: Things can wait and not be perfect. Taking time for ourself sober is way better than doing it drunk.
Before yesterday I worked and started feeling depressed and obsessed around noon. During confinement I reacted to those feeling with going groceries to get my fix and continue working with some booze, until I couldn’t. Then gf come home and I lie and I feel shit for days. But before yesterday I just sat on my couch, with those feelings, and watched Netflix. I ordered food and took a nap. I did “nothing” in the afternoon. Turns out I was juste tired. At night I made supper and had fun with my gf, and the next morning I was on my desk and working at 6am. Way better to feel weird for a couple of hours and let ourself take care of it then avoid those feeling with booze and feel shit for days.

Yesterday the same thing happened mid-afternoon. I sat in those feelings for an hour, then did like you and went in my car, I drove windows open, music and went to the gym. At the moment I put my foot out of the car I was talking to some old guys from the gym I knew from 8 years ago. During the workout I had a little break when I realized how awesome I was feeling compared to this afternoon. I smiled and sweated. I didn’t realized when I stopped feeling weird, but I did.

Feelings are a part of life. Anxiety is too. They’re there for a reason and addiction might have covered their reasons and meaning, but taking time for ourself when they’re present is never a waste of time. Avoiding self would be. Taking time for ourself is never a waste of time.

[Zibbydibby]

I’m on day 36! The first 30 seemed to drag and felt like 60! Now the last 6 have flown by. I can’t thank this group enough for all the support y’all give.

[Travis92]

Day 3 for me. Things are starting to look good again. I think I finally have the motivation I need to stay sober for good this time. Am really close to losing my girlfriend who I have a child with if I can’t stay sober. My financial situation has gotten had over the last year due to drinking and putting things off, plus bei laid off for a few months for COVID.
But now I feel I’m in a better place mentally, my two kids and my girlfriend are my priority and I want to do this for them just as much me. Started groups meetings for the first time this week, and downloaded this app which is something I never would have done in the past.

[Thumper1213]

Day 19.

Grateful to be Sober!!Feel sluggish today I think it’s the heat Hope everyone has a good Sober day

[Hidden]

Nice work! Beating these addictions one step at a time! Keep it up!!

[funnydad]

Thank You Liv…new day, new goal…nice to see you…

[funnydad]

Hi. New day, no hangover, feeling good…

[Jenni]

Checking in day 2.