@Rockstar24777 Congratulations! 
@Joy Holy crap, u do not look anywhere near 50!
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Congrats on the big 
@Rockstar24777!! I was just catching up on this thread and saw your post. Awesome stuff.
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Ok cool, thanks.
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Fan-friggin-tastic! That is so wonderful, well done. I hear the confidence as well as the peace of mind coming from your posts recently and am so happy for you.
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Day 4 done and dusted… Have a good day or night night, whichever applies. Xx
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Lots a great gratitude there April. Sounds like you need a cat or 2 
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351 days. Inching closer to my year!
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Thanks April, I was about to start my recovery journey then (July 2019). My skin is much better now and has rejuvenated some. Should take a sober selfie.
Blessings and sobriety!
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Great number! You’re definitely winning.
Keep doing what you’re doing 
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Day 533. I’m in a bad spot mentally. I’m gonna try and talk with some friends and vent. It feels like I could just explode and get into a fight at any moment, which would be the absolute worst thing I could do in my situation.
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Day 442! I’m really thankful to have found this forum. As my mind is always reminiscing about drinking and trying to tell me that I don’t have a problem and I can be a drinker again, have fun, enjoy life… but then, just when I start to believe it, I come on here and see a thread or a post that immediately reminds me of my truth. I only really have fun and enjoy life when I am sober! Sober life = my best life!
I love my life sober. When I go through hard days - mentally and emotionally - I can still rejoice in the fact that I am sober and don’t rely on alcohol to give me some false sense of happiness. Truth is, when I was drinking, I was VERY unhappy! I would suffer so much anxiety and depression and regret. Life is better now, even if some days I don’t feel ‘happy’, I know I have a sense of inner-peace because I’m sober 
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This sounds like how I feel. I question why I’m doing this. I wasn’t so bad- a1/2 bottle of wine a night. Why can’t I have fun like everyone around me? Then I come here and read all these stories and remember how crappy I felt, how I wasn’t supporting my 24 year old son who decided to get sober, how my gut ached and ny blood pressure was inching up, how I couldn’t sleep and only half-assed exercised, how I had growing difficulty remembering facts. Where I am now vs where I was a mere 23 days ago is stunning. And then there are people like you chiming in about how they did a year +, urging us neophytes to hang in there and it really, really helps keep me motivated. Thanks so much for taking the time to post that. I never expected this kind of community when I signed up on a whim.
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Day 375 - going to bed sober but fighting anxiety something fierce tonight. I know I have no control over what I’m anxious about - it’s a situation with my 15yo daughter. But I’m really struggling to let it go. For the first time in a while I thought about how nice it would be to escape into a bottle of wine for the night just to relieve the unending anxiety. I’ve been physically ill from it today and the only thing that relieved any of it was sleep. This is exhausting. I hate feeling this way. I’m scared, anxious, angry, tired and weary. So I’m going to bed at 9pm and just giving up on the day. Of course that’s assuming I can fall asleep. I hate this.
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I’m sorry that you’re having problems with your daughter, teenagers are difficult. You know that whine wouldn’t help, if anything it would make it so you couldn’t be there if she needed you. I hope that you can get some sleep and some peace.
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Hi Steve. You have a great number of days. Hope things get better. I have the Sunday blues as I hate starting the work week. So much stress and it just drags on. Anyway, I do hope things perk up for you.
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