Awe your very sweet! I didnt even know we were soo close in our recovery dates! Thats really cool! I hope u have a fabulous day 
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Way to go on 1 week clean! 
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Morning Check in
Day 240
Woke up a couple times last night due to weird dreams. I still feel tired but my son and I have 2 appts this morning bright and early. Gonna get us ready, get in the cab, and Ill grab a coffee at the hospital.
Hope everyone has an addiction free day!
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New here. Just checking in. I thought this would be a place i could go evey day to remind myself why i dont want to drink.
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Welcome D. You found just the right place. Have a good read and join in when your comfortable. Feel free to let off some steam if you need to. Youāre not alone here.
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Checking in, day 705. Even though I feel pretty sad lately I have never been better physically. The gardening job, the wood carving, the running and all the physical stuff makes me feel so balanced, Iām constantly tired in a good way and it doesnāt let me fall deep. It brings me close to a palpable level of existence, to a level that doesnāt ask questions nor does it know good or bad, so it helps acceptance a lot.
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Day 26. Checking in. Still here. Been working out a ton and feeling great. Have not really had any real urges lately. A few small ones here and there but nothing I canāt easily rid my mind of. Hope everyone is doing great. God bless.
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Day 37 in the books, checking in day 38. Doing a training for an on call position my sobriety has given me extra time to take on, then spending the day with my partner. Maybe getting pumpkins or something. Feeing pretty good overall!
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Day 19, exhausted, but here.
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Thank you. I think everyone is a bit different. 
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Day 82 AF
Day 61 toxfree and staying away from toxic energy
Job opportunity quit due to discussion about contract details. I wonāt change for any bullshit and definitely not for less money at these times! My current job is safe, I can go on with itā¦ On and on and on.
Positive mindset changes a lot! 
Still looking at the marketā¦
Itās okayā¦ I made all this exciting trouble without drinkingā¦ So I am proud! 
Group therapy was confusing yesterday ā¦
I missed focus, donāt know. 
Tomorrow itās Yoga, sometimes physical therapy is more helpful 
Will do some tidying up, cooking, Selfcare and listening to a nice podcast this evening and have a calm night hopefully.
Hugs and take care! 
(sober of cause )
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1050 days without gaming
6 days without streaming services and TV
0 days without YouTube and podcasts.
These moodswings are a pain in the ass. Iām going from very happy, to passive suicidal ideation, to feeling pretty good, to feeling like shit in a week.
The latter is mostly because Iāve slept less than four hours for three days in a row now. So my energy level isnāt exactly high. Or even at 30% capacity. The fact that there is once again a lot of stress from work. I was naive to think I could rest now that we finally have an assistant store manager.
Thatās not completely true though. This guy has done a shit ton in 3 days. This week will remain shit, but things will be better after that.
My decrease in hours will start next week. And so will my transfer to a new department. It wonāt be a complete transition immediately as that would leave him in charge of my department with only a week of experience in this particular store. He has been with the company for quite a while though, so he knows his stuff. But he also has other responsibilities making it impossible for him to fully run my department. Once my department manager comes back, hopefully soon, I can transfer fully.
In that new department I will have very few employees to manage. That will mean not needing to fix stupid mistakes all day every day. It will mean stability. It will mean having time to formulate a mission and a vision for that department. And it will mean not having to take work home because of all the shit I have to take care of afterwards.
I started this post grumpy, ended it feeling relatively positive. Ranting helps guys!
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Funny how just posting on here at the beginning of a thread reply grumpy, and towards the end Iāve actually found myself deleting the whole thing and retyping.
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I often do that too 
But to condition myself to not worry about the opinion of others I no longer allow myself to do so. So I post what I think. Bad or positive. This allows me to capture a bigger part of my journey and more thoughts to reflect on.
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Congratulations on your week 
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Like this way tooā¦
Unfiltered postā¦
Very cleaning for my soulā¦
Cooling down my emotions!
Thanks TS for this thread 
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Day 124
Day 8 no cigarettes 
(definitely eating more, which is good as Iāve lost nearly a stone lately due to erratic mental health, but stable now)
Feeling great about my achievements. Iām tired so prepping some paperwork for tomorrow then hitting the zzzzās
No time for myself today and super busy next two days so Saturday is going to be chill day. Canāt wait
Keep on keeping on x
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Day 24
Just checking in as usual thanks everyone for a space to help keep me accountable.
And while im not doing meetings at the moment of if i will go back my old sponsor checked up on me the other day and is happy as ive finally made the change again.
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Day 1,082. Last night on my way home from work around midnight I came up on this:
This car was in the wrong lane half on the road parked with the lights off on a corner of the highway. I stopped in front of it and put my flashers on so nobody hit it. I called 911 and got police coming, took about 35 minutes to get there.
The driver was fucked up, passed out/incoherentā¦ needles all over the vehicle. The old me wouldāve tried to help this guy not get into troubleā¦ The new me knows that the trouble he gets into may save his life and that covering for an addict only helps kill them.
1 of the things Iām grateful for in sobriety is that I actually can stop and help in situations like thisā¦ the old me wouldāve been 5-6 beers deep myself and had to keep on driving.
Keep on staying sober 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day at a time and the time will add up fastā¦ the cravings will come less and lessā¦ the compulsive desire will fade away, you will win yourself back.
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