Checking in daily to maintain focus #38

Hey guys.
Checking in day 7.
Hope you have a great day guys.
Love you all.

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Morning check in
Day 8
I am feeling INCREDIBLE today! I love Mondays :heart: and I love that I woke up at 530am today for a workoutā€¦ was able to follow thru with the workout plan for today (I am reading a book that is helping with that). I did my NA reading and my Bible passage. Prayedā€¦ really felt the connection today, the gratitude, the love, the inner peace. I donā€™t usually feel serene and I am so at peace right now. I am so overflowing with gratitude. I feel so much self acceptance and self love. U canā€™t get this from drugsā€¦ not even close!!! This is my rushā€¦ thus serene feeling is what Iā€™m going to chaseā€¦ not drugs. These past 8 days have felt like literally a month. Not sure why. Iā€™m anxious to get back to my 25 days and then beyond. I :heartpulse: where Iā€™m at today. Idk if there was some odd reason for my last relapse but I have learned so much! Not just the basic of recovery and the dos and donā€™t and all thatā€¦ but this time (over ALL my chronic relapsing over 22 years), I feel like Iā€™m really doing the inner work this time. And it feels amazing! So grateful today :pray: love u all!

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Day 1184. Checking in. Doing okayish today.

Have a good and sober day!

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@Lotusflower congrats on 70 days :tada:
@Pandita congrats on 60 days :tada:
@ShadowFax congrats on your month :tada:
@Hopeful777 congrats on 400 days :tada:
@anon27760155 congrats on 18 months :tada:
@Hazy congrats on 30 days :tada:
@Harold happy birthday :balloon::birthday::gift::partying_face:
@BroccoliHighKicks congrats on 30 days :tada: happy birthday :balloon::birthday::gift::partying_face: and feel better soon :pray:t2:

Welcome to all the new members Iā€™ve noticed whilst catching up :blush:

Thank you @tigermatriarch @misokatsu for the shout outs, and everyone that reached out via private messages, I appreciate you all. :blue_heart:

539 days no alcohol.
4 days no cocaine.

My addict has been trying to kill me. Iā€™ve ended up in hospital 3 times since the 15th. Youā€™d think once would be scary enough, but not for this addict, he really does want me dead. There may be permanent damage to my heart now, but only time will tell.

Thankfully, in this moment, I am still alive, and have a few sober days again now. Iā€™ve also had two periods of 10 days since NYE, so I need to find more support. I have reached out for help from the local addiction place, waiting for them to call back, it should be today. Tomorrow Iā€™m going to try to speak to my GP about my depression and anxiety that drove me to relapse back in mid-December, Iā€™m on so many different meds for my mental health yet itā€™s still so debilitating, itā€™s time to ask for more help. Depending on how much support I can get in place, my therapist may insist on taking a 6 month break before we start again :cry: I really hope we can continue, I know I need it.

I have enjoyed catching up on nearly 2K posts. It feels good to be back. I missed this place but shame kept me at a distance.

:blue_heart:

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@Deep congrats on your week :tada:

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Thank you! Itā€™s so good to see you posting again. Glad youre working on getting help. Wishing you the best

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Absolutely sooo proud of you! Iā€™m so glad ur reaching out for more support. There is nothing wrong with that! You deserve a good life my friend and I KNOW you can do it! Hugs!!!

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Happy 30 days sober. And Happy birthday :tada:. Sorry about the food poisoning.:face_vomiting: Lol

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Yay congrats on 30 days!!! Great work :slight_smile: Hope u start feeling better tho

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I give you a big hug. My prayers are with you so that everything goes well. :two_hearts::four_leaf_clover::pray:

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Yikes that is scary stuff. Hope the addiction support comes through and a talk with the GP is helpful, and that you are able to continue with the therapist :crossed_fingers:

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Donā€™t let shame keep you away, donā€™t kick yourself down we are too fond of punishing ourselves x

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Shout out to you for taking the time to post everyoneā€™s progress. Really appreciate you doing this. We all have a different battle we are fighting, and itā€™s good to see so many do so well, itā€™s truly motivating.

And yet you are going through so much right now. Please do not give up.

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I really like this chart. Will definitely share with others. Thanks for posting this.

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Ur welcome! I found it helpful also! :slight_smile:

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Iā€™m glad youā€™re back Tyler.
Nice to see you checked in.
:pray:t2::heart:

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Day 27 AF.
Felling pretty bloody awesome

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Cam, I am very grateful to see you participating.

That shame part was often fed by my unwillingness to face my fears. Unfortunately for me then that created a snowball effect of self pity and loneliness as I watched the world around me carry on as I suffered in isolation.
Being a part of is so important for us even when we are having a hard time. It is important for us to know we still belong and people are still going to love us and not judge us no matter what.

You have that here Cam. You donā€™t need to feel shame here. We love you.

:blue_heart::orange_heart::heart::seedling:

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I paid the fee and itā€™s well worth it

Checking in sober AF :slight_smile:

I woke up early for a morning jog clear headed

Had a good day at the desk

Played netball

Treated myself to a yummy dinner instead of going to the pub with the group

Got my bf some chocolate treats which Iā€™m looking forward to giving him when I get home :slight_smile:

Bath and reading. Opened up to someone about quitting drinking and she said she had too! I love the open way sober people communicate :slight_smile: guys I want it to work this time. But I need to do baby steps and make it to a week and celebrate along the way. My first two weeks are always doable and great. Itā€™s then that it gets hard. Iā€™m reading Quit Like a woman always helps to have some sober lit :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

happy Monday all

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Day 286.

Packing day.

I have made a packing sequence list. So I can be organised and get through the day with structure and order :sweat_smile:

Off to get my morning coffee. Then I will avoid procrastination and just get back home and jump into it.

I feel as if Iā€™m packing up a part of me that I finally saying good bye too. Itā€™s almost as if itā€™s a death of some sorts. a death of that part of me that Iā€™ve said goodbye to. Packing and moving from this place really is a final nail in the coffin of this life i lived for ten years.

I can actually say with confidence that Iā€™m not taking any emotional or mental baggage with me as I move, Iā€™m in a place in my life where Iā€™m confident about my sobriety and my journey has never been or felt so clear and strong.

Sobriety really does take you places in life far beyond what you think your capable of.

As they say, itā€™s worth it :heart:

Happy days :heart:

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