Checking in daily to maintain focus #35

I hope you feel better soon. :purple_heart:

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Thanks hazy, itā€™s been good. Just finished a tattoo. Hope your well, miss you :slight_smile:

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Iā€™m sober, but a moody cow!!..I understand ā€˜dry drunkā€™ now!..and I wana change thatā€¦so back to learnā€¦ and just gonn jump in a meeting (havenā€™t been in one for months) x

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@Charlie_C

I am so fricken happy right now!!! Congrats on your 1 year of sobriety.

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Happy 9 months sober :heart::partying_face:
That is such a huge milestone, Iā€™m so proud of you @Laraellelarissa
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Means a lot ! Thank you so much !!!

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56 days and countingā€¦.

Enjoyed a sober weekend in Charleston and Savannahā€¦and that is a feat in and of itself, ha!! Although seeing all the drunks teetering down the sidewalks was not at all enticing. I love that bartenders will make me fancy booze-free beverages now. I just ask for something fun and non-alcoholic and I get a lovely glass of something wonderful. I know going out can be triggering, but I had a wedding and a bestieā€™s birthday back to back weekends and I couldnā€™t avoid the occasional bar/pub. I was able to get through it quite nicely with delicious mocktails. All that socializing has me ready to hibernate for a week.

Hope everyone has a wonderful and sober week :black_heart:

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Let me did tell something about @Charlie_C.

Heā€™s been on TS for a long time. And he struggled to get over a week of sobriety. He did that for yearsā€¦ Years. He was like a broken record. Lol.

Anyways, Charlie, what a great blessing to see you celebrate one year. Absolutely amazing. Itā€™s shows that recovery works if you work it.

Would like to know if you are aware of what exactly turned this cycle of relapse around for you? Did you start doing something different? What advice would you offer for someone is struggling?

Thank you for all that you bring here. And inspiring us to enjoy every day sober.

CONGRATULATIONS :confetti_ball:

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Yay you! Thatā€™s a full term sobriety that is! Huge congrats lady. Hugs.

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Day 2 of being sober complete, itā€™s actually been quite a nice rest day today I wen Tom church which was lovely by the way and the day wouldā€™ve ended on a positive note, of this one person didnā€™t have to come and just ruin it, like they ruin everything p, honestly I wonder if this person ever thinks about anyone but themselves their so selfish and all they do is yell, letā€™s just say I canā€™t wait to get the heck away from them as soon as possible. Rant complete
That being said I hope everyone has a lovely evening, Goodnight.

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Checking inā€¦
Done work. My clients family came to visit her. She immediately attacked her dad, grabbed myself, and my coworker. I was able to calm her down long enough to get her to let go of me and distract her long enough for my coworker to get her family out of the home. The client upstairs now gets aggitated due to the noise below, begins screaming, tossing furniture, slamming doors, and starts to flood the suite with the bathtub water so we had to turn off the water to the whole house. I love my jobā€¦ I really do. I love supporting the clients here. But my nerves are a bit shot right now. No matter how many times I get charged at, sworn at, the attempted bites and grabs and punches, the stuff thrown at me, the name calling etc, i just cant completely get used to this. I just would normally want to ā€œrelaxā€ somehow. And I know that isnā€™t the way to do it. Trying to implement some healthier coping skills right now. Cuz normally Iā€™d be making a call :frowning:

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Well done on your day 2 :+1:Nice work.

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congratulations on your 1 year :+1:Great achievement.

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The beauty of sobriety is the passing it on to others, look at all these sober days from people Iā€™ve had the privilege to set an example and pass on the things that were freely given to me. Itā€™s worth every second of the pain I went through.

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Huge congrats on 1 year @Charlie_C !! So proud of you!!

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I donā€™t think I checked in on this thread today. Crazy, for the last few days, I have just been waiting for @Charlie_Cā€™s one-year check-in. :slight_smile:

I picked up numerous happy golden nuggets today. The ones I will share:

#pillowpledge People talk about getting to the pillow sober every night. Apparently, the hashtag is growing and thereā€™s an actual website and ā€œmovement.ā€ It probably comes from AA, not sure, donā€™t really care. I appreciated that it exists.

S.L.I.P. - Sobriety Lost Its Priority. I believe this is also an AA thing. They sure do have solid nugs out there.

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Congratulations on your one year sober!!! That is amazing and such an accomplishment :grinning: hope your day was awesome

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Fucken aye Charlie. I almost missed this.
Congratulations on your one year of sobriety.
Thatā€™s awesome. Iā€™m so happy to read this. Great job grandpa. Iā€™m so glad your with us.
Enjoy your night.
I hope you got to celebrate.
Iā€™m doing mine sober!

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787 Days. Iā€™ll never understand why I keep putting otherā€™s needs before my own. I take one step forward and 2 back in this area. Iā€™ve been working 6 days a week and a family member asked me for help on the only day I have to get caught up on my own stuff. Of course I said yes and there I was driving 3 hours each way. Why canā€™t I just say ā€œnoā€? I think itā€™s the fear of someone getting mad at me. Another character defect of mine that needs more work.

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