# Checking in daily to maintain focus #42
**URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199
**Category:** Life in Recovery
**Created:** [April 30, 2022, 6:09am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199 "2022-04-30T06:09:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 72
### Author:  [@Butterflymoonwoman](https://talkingsober.com/u/Butterflymoonwoman)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1577 "2022-05-15T14:27:04Z")
Thank u! 🙂 I appreciate that!!!
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### Author:  [@Dazercat](https://talkingsober.com/u/Dazercat)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1578 "2022-05-15T14:31:56Z")
Ya you put in the work! We all see it and appreciate the hard work you’ve done to stay clean. You’re such a great example for all of us. And I’m so happy you found that God given strength. Wow 💥💥💥90 days Dana!! God Bless 🙏🏻
I wanted to give you a fun gif. But from the bottom of my heart I’m flooded with how awesome you are and how excited I am for you. And love ❤
What a beautiful Sunday it is.
🙏🏻❤🌵
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### Author:  [@Twizzlers](https://talkingsober.com/u/Twizzlers)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1579 "2022-05-15T15:22:58Z")
Huge congrats on your 90 days, iv been very excited seeing you get to this point, your determination and strength are so powerful and positive. Im super proud to be able to see you celebrate this day 🤗🤗
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### Author:  [@felipeandrews](https://talkingsober.com/u/felipeandrews)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1581 "2022-05-15T15:29:26Z")
Day 63. I am really worried. I’ve been thinking too much about drinking beer. Thoughts like: “if I drink life will be so much easy, have a drink, just one and you stop”. I am losing it.
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### Author:  [@ALC227](https://talkingsober.com/u/ALC227)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1582 "2022-05-15T15:30:54Z")
90 days!! I do not know you but I am so proud of you 👏👏👏 You have shared so much of your story with this community - your ups your downs , your highs and your lows, all the while remaining strong and focused. You are my inspiration and I pray that each day gives you further peace & joy 🙏
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### Author:  [@maxwell](https://talkingsober.com/u/maxwell)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1583 "2022-05-15T15:34:00Z")
NOOOOOO, don’t do it! Be honest with yourself, would you stop or would you throw away everything you’ve done so far? That’s your inner drunk brain trying to trick you, tell it to F off and stay sober. Please be strong, you can do it!
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### Author:  [@Rockstar24777](https://talkingsober.com/u/Rockstar24777)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1584 "2022-05-15T15:34:28Z")
Day 702 clean and sober today. Soooo freaking tired for some reason idk. I hope everyone has an amazing day today I love you guys!!! 🕶🤘🏻
Congratulations @Butterflymoonwoman and congratulations @Nordique!!!
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### Author:  [@Sunny11](https://talkingsober.com/u/Sunny11)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1585 "2022-05-15T15:35:17Z")
Don’t give up, our addicted brain will sometimes whisper to us like this. Just remember what can happen after a few drinks and why you want to quit. This whisper will go away if you give yourself time 🙏🍀
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### Author:  [@Rockstar24777](https://talkingsober.com/u/Rockstar24777)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1586 "2022-05-15T15:36:23Z")
Hang in there bro it will pass!!! Keep talking to us here if you have to until it does!!! Like @maxwell and @Sunny11 said it’s just a trick, don’t fall for it!!! 🕶🤘🏻
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### Author:  [@ShesGotMoxie](https://talkingsober.com/u/ShesGotMoxie)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1588 "2022-05-15T15:47:34Z")
Yay Dana!!! 🥳 And definitely thanks to you putting in the work! I’m so happy for you and proud of you. I think today, in whatever I do, I’m going to be celebrating you. Big hugs and lots of love 🤗❤
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### Author:  [@DLS](https://talkingsober.com/u/DLS)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1589 "2022-05-15T15:48:42Z")
Can you move your flight to sooner than Sunday?
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### Author:  [@anon53116147](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon53116147)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1591 "2022-05-15T15:51:58Z")
Day 13. Ex is trying to make me keep the girls bc she doesn’t feel good and is to hung over, like I get yesterday was your day to have fun and marry someone you love. But I have things to do as well. If these were my days and I was hungover after a big event she would have them to me bright and early with zero fucks that I’m to hung over. Found out my dad has cancer again. He thinks Its going to be ok, and then a few minutes later to lmk my grandfather probably doesn’t have to much longer to live, idk how to feel right now. I don’t want to sit in pitty, yesterday I played the halt tape to my irritability and I ate, I wasn’t lonely bc I had my girls I wasn’t tired. I was just angry and couldn’t snap out of it, idk what was triggering me so much and I hate that.
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### Author:  [@maxwell](https://talkingsober.com/u/maxwell)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1592 "2022-05-15T15:52:19Z")
Hi Felipe, check out this thread, a lot of people hear this inner voice as well, you’re not alone. Sorry, don’t know how to give you the link, lol
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### Author:  [@DLS](https://talkingsober.com/u/DLS)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1593 "2022-05-15T15:55:15Z")
Give her an extra hour or 2 and get to your day.
My mom has dementia and diabetes now. It’s really sad to see, I know we all have to face it eventually but it sucks. 😢
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### Author:  [@Kareness](https://talkingsober.com/u/Kareness)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1594 "2022-05-15T16:03:24Z")
Checking in 1978 days. It’s warm here, already 70° at 9 a.m. A lovely day for a park meeting, happy to be sober for it. Hope everyone has a good day.
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### Author:  [@Hutch1](https://talkingsober.com/u/Hutch1)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1595 "2022-05-15T16:05:21Z")
Hi everyone just checking in on Day 19 and I improve little by little every minute I’m a long work in progress have to deal with feelings and emotions etc that I have for decades suppressed compartmented avoided deflected misdirected and all the cunning baffling subtle ways my alcoholic mind can manipulate and now I’m trying to live in the light cleaning out all my deepest darkest recesses caves and caverns with all my shame guilt and depressing negative thoughts that go with all that. I pray a lot everyday for forgiveness and trying also to forgive myself. It is a struggle and I’m facing it as opposed to avoiding etc. I’m grateful for everyone in here and sharing I read a lot in here and I want to share a photo of a book cover…. Thanks
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### Author:  [@anon53116147](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon53116147)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1596 "2022-05-15T16:11:39Z")
Yeah well she didnt even give me the choice lol,called me crying saying I needed to keep the girls bc she didn’t feel good and thinks she got drugged last night. Like it’s her same shit and lies, told her I had stuff to do, do I really? No but I want to recoup go to my meeting in SL at 6 with my sponsor. She literally told me she wasn’t taken the girls today and hung up on me. So I just tried to bring the girls over to her house and she isn’t even there. Is what it is, out for a bike ride for the girls.
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### Author:  [@Butterflymoonwoman](https://talkingsober.com/u/Butterflymoonwoman)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1597 "2022-05-15T16:24:21Z")
Omg u guys!!! Ur literally making me tear up at work 😭 lol
Thank you Eric @Dazercat, Carolyn @ShesGotMoxie, Rob @Rockstar24777, @ALC227, JR @GOKU2019, @Twizzlers, and everyone else who I have already thanked or liked my 3 month clean post. I don’t have that congratulations anywhere else (not from hubby or anyone else who knows about my journey right now), so these comments and likes really touched my heart. I absolutely feel the ❤! Thanks for making me cry tears of happiness 😊. Love u all!
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### Author:  [@DLS](https://talkingsober.com/u/DLS)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1599 "2022-05-15T16:59:10Z")
It’s that devil tempting you; I was a beer drinker too and it was hard to give it up…BUT; it was and is so worth it. It’s like you think things will be easier, better, cooler, or anything… the only thing it will guarantee is added weight, hangover and maybe acting like a fool. Try life without it a little longer, Felipe. It truly is a better way to live.
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### Author:  [@Rockstar24777](https://talkingsober.com/u/Rockstar24777)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-42/142199/1600 "2022-05-15T17:17:36Z")
Awwww that’s awesome and we love you too @Butterflymoonwoman keep up the amazing work!!! 🕶🤘🏻
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