Checking in daily to maintain focus #26

Welcome back! And thanks for the well wishes. Hold on to the good sober feelings, it really is worth it.

Thanks and love you too @Clarity!!!

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311 today. My oldest daughters 15 today. Iā€™m making apple cinnamon waffles for breakfast for her. This is the 1st birthday of hers Iā€™m sober. It means more to me than I could ever I imagine.

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Checking in!
Having a good day so far. Itā€™s a STAT holiday here in Canada so Iā€™m getting paid $37.50 an hour today :slight_smile: canā€™t complain. Had a pretty shitty day yesterdayā€¦ just feeling down, emotions running rampant. But today seems better so far. Will check in again at lunch. Hope everyone is having a great day so far! :heart:

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I just hit 90 days today!! And Iā€™m honestly tryna not cry. I definitely didnt think Iā€™d ever make it this far. Thinking back to 3 months agoā€¦ active addiction really had me thinking I was gonna die a meth user. Iā€™m just honestly so proud of myself because there have been so many days where I just wanted to give up and go get numb af but I didnt. And that shit was hard.

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@trose1995 Yeah!!! Thatā€™s so great, well done on all your hard work. So happy for you.

@Butterflymoonwoman, good job staying clean through a lot of emotion. Thatā€™s been the hardest for me in my journey, learning how to get through tough emotions without turning back to my unhealthy coping through numbing.

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Just keep fighting Everytime you get through one urge the next will be easier. Just keep checking in frequently and plz plz reach out or message me if you find yourself really struggling. Itā€™s all gonna be worth it it. I promise. Coke was my biggest d.o.c as well, whether it was shooting it or smoking it, If I can get through it so can you girl. Yes itā€™s gonna hurt and yes your gonna have alot of emotions and pain. But it will get better, itā€™s all apart of the process to become the best you can

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Day 378. Called and ask for my medicine increased will see what happens. Had a ok time with my girls last night, little stinkers didnā€™t sleep untill 100 in the morning. I was grouchy and made sure I apologized. Itā€™s been a while since my daughter autumn has said Iā€™m always grouchy lol. Anyways Iā€™m heading up to practice some deadlifts and bench. Have a astrong day fam

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That sounds aweful Beth. I am so mad and sad that that happened to you. You poor thing. I dont trust cops either. You will never find me calling them for anything!! :no_good_woman:

I have some traumatic things I started thinking about daily as well. As an addict I hardly thought about these events and now at 200 days its started to be a daily thing! I really want it to stop. I asked my sisterā€¦ she recommends EMDRā€¦ hmm sounds interesting as well as DBT and CBTā€¦ I guess I will look into it.

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Thank you, it is hard but better than dealing with it with a hangover.

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Ohhhā€¦ Doc = alcohol followed by smoking. Tho i do like Extascy tho not addictedā€¦havent done it in years

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Thank you. I will definitely read this.

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Hello everybody. Long time lurker here, never been very good at being social but I wanted to say something, anything, as if I donā€™t, I never will. Iā€™m on day 5 of giving up alcohol and I am doing ok. I gave up for 8 months last year and then started to ā€œmoderateā€ again. Well, you can guess how that turned outā€¦
Anyway, I have been reading lots on here and I know that just checking in will help me enormously, so that is what I plan to do from here on in.
I hope everyone is doing well today :slightly_smiling_face:

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Welcome! Look forward to seeing your check ins.

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I spent my 43rd Sober last month! Welcome to the cluband congrats!

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Really cold, no power, ice all over. But sober & leftover pizza will have to do

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Thank you Mike :slight_smile: I appreciate that. Iā€™m really trying and yesterday was really hard. Was going to post yesterday bcuz I was having such a shitty day, crying etc. But I didnā€™t and I feel like my day wouldā€™ve been better if I let it go when I wanted to. Thank you so much for your support :smiley:

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Love this!!! I have taken DBT actually bcuz I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder but I havenā€™t opened my therapy binder in years! Thank you for bringing this up bcuz I feel like this will help me in the future. Hope youā€™re doing well :slight_smile:

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Thank you lady :slight_smile: Iā€™m really trying!

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@CapriciousCapricorn love the poem, thanks for sharing :blush:
@Scorpionking1118 welcome :blush:
@Luckyredz congrats on 4 months :tada:
@Sunny11 congrats on 6 months :tada:
@Conor689908 congrats on 18 months :tada:
@Nordique congrats on 8 months :tada:
@jjcarson92 congrats on 400 days :tada:
@Freckles congrats for your honesty and coming right back here :blush:
@FindingJesse congrats on 30 days :tada:
@Bassanova welcome and congrats on 3 months :tada:

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