Checking in daily to maintain focus #21

Hello all,

Hope everyone is having a great day. Checking in sane and sober. Hit three weeks this weekend. I told myself I wasn’t going to post again till I got to 30 days or my cell phone back. To heck with that and tired of just reading. I was in such a bad place that I was acting on my defects and doing exactly opposite of what I should be doing - communicating. Anyway, I’m doing much better and going IOP (round 2). :grinning: It’s been my favorite type of program to work. Glad to be back and sober.

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I apologise because no I do not. I can appreciate that you do. But unfortunately it’s out there everywhere, even for me on FB and in real life and I can only control my actions and not get offended by what other ppl think Is funny. I see coke memes all day of fb, yes sure at first it bothered me and seeing ppl go to coke dealers houses bugged me. But I can’t let it control me, I just keep scrolling and move on. I think your a sweet person so I accept that it bugs you and I’ll be mindful of it. But I can only control my actions and move on from things

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Appreciate it, thank you. Awesome to see you racking up some solid time as well. Keep it up!!

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  1. I spent a ton of money on meditation/prayer beads, books, Buddhas, and candles. Living my best Recovery Dharma life over here. I am definitely not cocky, but so driven to do the work, harder and more in-depth than before. I have struggled with anger over these single digit days I am building up - because they don’t make sense. I had no reason to relapse. I was happy. I wasn’t really craving. I DECIDED to shut down and pick up - just because I could, because it was easy to, because my thoughts were like, “What’s the difference?”

From The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, “No matter how much ‘I want a drink, I need a drink, I could have a drink, there’s a drink, pick up the drink’ echoes in your head, a thought cannot make you pick up that drink and put it in your mouth…only picking up a drink and putting it in my mouth, could lead me to drinking…Thoughts are in your head. They can’t move your hand.”

Nothing else but that my friend. Make your thoughts your friend, not your enemy.

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You’re welcome @Olivia I didn’t know it was also from a movie too my bad. I’m sorry I posted that and I hope you can forgive me and accept my apology. Have a good night Olivia.

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