Checking in on day 931 and 10. Another rainy day. Sucks. But sober is good and better.
I wish everyone a sober and good Sunday.
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My condoleances Sophia to you and your family. It’s so hard to loose one of your parents.
He is forever in your 
Day 977 
Like some of you know I work in a drugstore/healthstore. We sell vitamins and herb supplements as well as special diet foods, superfoods and wellness products. Yesterday I could help a guy with an alcohol addiction like mine. He was the only customer at that early moment and he opened up a bit about his sleeping problems because he quit drinking. I told hem I was sober for a few years and what has helped me to get there. He was 3 weeks sober. It was so good to listen to him and let him vent. When he paid for his melatonine another customer came in and we changed the subject.
He leaved the shop satisfayed and he lifted my day as well!
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Some feelings of inadequacy were brought up today. These thoughts come up a lot. I get so tired of them. I don’t know if it is just me and I am over-sensitive. Or everyone thinks like this and I am over-sensitive about thinking like everyone else. I guess either way I am over-sensitive. Sometimes I feel like spending any time with people just triggers thoughts and it is easier to be alone. But I get lonely easily. Sometimes I feel like I just can’t win with my brain, and if there was a way to switch it off and just behave on auto-pilot I would.
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Good morning all, checking in on Day 38!
Thank you for all the replies to my question last night. This community is great.
Want to stay by reiterating what @LeeHawk said - the main thing is that we are sober and I’m grateful for that too. Other habits will be easier to work on with sobriety in fact. @Nordique Good suggestion with halo top; I will get some this week. @apes2020 I think mindful is the key word there. I’m falling out of that and need to get back into it. Hope you’re self care Sunday is going well! Thanks for sharing that @Misokatsu I can understand why that would be the case, it is quite the journey we are on but I’m thankful thankful that without alcohol we can be self aware of these things. @Chosen2001 well done on 6 days and get through this adjustment period - there is time in the future to work on the rest 
Ah @Dazercat I am a fellow chocolate addict too. If only recommended portion sizes were bigger 
I’m going to get a nice bar of dark chocolate this week and just have a little each night and see if it can last the week.
Have great days all! Another sober one for us all 
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welcome back Congratulations. Such an achievement!
Day 19 my life currently revolves around my son and the garden. They gave me a lot of joy and energy. Besides them I just wanna read and be left alone. My husband is great and caring but yesterday he came home and had a happy drunk. Beforehand he discusses it with me and I didn’t see a problem if he drank a couple of beers. But when he came home and acted and sounded tipsy, I couldn’t stand it. So, I went to bed at 9 pm. I’m a bit worried if I can cope with this in the future or will I always be irritated about it? Idk we’ll see.
Enjoy your day everyone!
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I don’t have much to suggest here but just want to say I really understand how you feel with this. In my previous long term relationship I would get so triggered by my partners behaviour when he was drunk, even a happy drunk. It must stem from my upbringing as my father was an unpredictable drinker.
I think communication about this is key. You have to explain how you feel and how this relates to your own sobriety. No answers but solidarity from me. I know how hard it can be.
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Sunday night here. Made it through the weekend. 7 days sober
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Some good milestones here. Excellent milestones even I might say.
@Seb Congrats on a full week and surviving the weekend. On we go.
@YeeYeeViking Four months Monty! Excellent work.
@RetainKingII Big congrats on a whole half year of sobriety Andre!
@Will3 A full year Will! Amazing! Cpongrats! Party!
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Day 820
A lot going on for me at the moment. Contracts for my house move arrived yesterday and I have a completion date for 10th June. So my life right now is boxes everywhere and is a little chaotic. The process started in February so I’m itching to get it all done now. It’s been a really valuable experience and challenge for me. There have been numerous occasions throughout where old me would have lost his shit, got angry, worried unecessarily. Just generally created stress around it for no reason. But I haven’t mostly. I’ve impressed myself how level headed and calm I’ve been.
And this would never have happened had I not got sober, no way.
Sometimes it feels like progress isn’t being made. Like a lot if people I got sober and was impatient for ‘results’. I wanted/expected things to just be better suddenly. And in some ways they were, but the reality is far different. Sometimes you have to dig deep and grind out the days, maintain faith that you are doing the right thing. It might not feel like progress but it’s there, in the background. Hell, my whole second year felt like treading water, but it led here. The wins tend to be far less obvious these days. But they are there, every day.
Have a good day folks
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If I get the %70 or higher percentage dark chocolate, I can make it last longer than regular chocolate. The lindt %70 is my go-to
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Yep I’m baaaaack, how are you going Conor?!? Your profile is hidden so I couldn’t check up on you so easily 
@M-be-free49 that’s so lovely for you to say, there is so much inspiration within the TS walls.
@Misokatsu @Its_me_Stella & @Lisa07 it feels good to be back, bit like that feeling when I go to AA - it feels like home…
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Checking in, into Day 6. Yesterday was a hard Day, hope for a better one today. At least today its impossible for me to buy wine if the urge would get to big.
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I had a bit of a rough time there for a bit but I got new meds and I’m doing a bit better now , I’m 648 days sober
It’s good to see you doing alright
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- Weather is still awful and I still have to work a late Sunday shift but a few small things dramatically changed how I feel. First thing was last night my Texan friend shared a link with me to the online Glastonbury festival which was free to watch because of some mess up with the streams. I watched Damon Albarn, Thom Yorke, Jorja Smith and more live, which was a great way of winding down from my work day.
And there was my dream this morning. I had to play a basketball game with my old team, after a year or so of not showing up. It was very busy in the sports centre, had to fight my way through a crowd, couldn’t find the changing rooms, thought I forgot to bring my gear but I had my bag right in my hand. When I got to the court I was still wearing my hiking boots but after thinking I’d had to play in them I found my basketball shoes standing right next to me. Thought my fellow team mates wouldn’t recognize or acknowledge me, but they were happy to see me and we all fistbumped. Coach was glad to see me too.
End of dream and I woke up glad. I didn’t play basketball for real for 10 years and my dream isn’t going to change that but somehow something clicked in my head. I’m not alone really means something this morning. Have as good a Sunday as you all can friends. Sober and clean. Love from Amsterdam.
Pic is from the cover of a governmental policy paper in the mid 90’s. My backside is in it, playing on my court where I hung out for 30 years or so. My hair still on my head and not on my back
@Becsta Great to see you, welcome back!
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Lol! Oh dear, happens to the best of us!
I will check out online Glasto!
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