Checking in daily to maintain focus #52

@Hoss and @icebear thank you guys!!

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Happy 1,000 days bro!!! HELL YEAH!!! :sunglasses::metal:t2:

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Day 1,002 clean and sober today. Up since 2am, haven’t been sleeping well lately. I hope everyone has an awesome day, love you guys! :sunglasses::metal:t2:

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Fantastic Nordique!! Keep at it, showing us the way!! :+1::+1:

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Checking in sober.
I was thinking about recovery tools. I do this from time to time. Most of the time it’s too abstract for me. Like something to overcome an urge. So short lived.
What I experienced just now in the last hours, what somehowade me realise: this IS the most important ‘tool’ for me. It is talking about what is stuck in my head. When I feel offended by someone or something. Say it out and probably I’ll get it corrected. Ask how someone meant it because I received it like this or that. I can reframe it. And there won’t be anger, sadness, self-pity and other feelings which I used to cure with drinking. And really most of the times talking about it is so simple and makes such a huge difference.

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This is a good technique I try to remember this when my mind is going to a bad place. It usually helps me to relax some.

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Day 7 for me and I couldn’t be happier about my choice to stop drinking and stay stopped. Going to my online Tempest meetings every day, practicing taking up space and using my voice by speaking at most of them. I agree with @anon74766472 that talking about what is coming up for me is a huge help; I always get practical and positive feedback from the coach/facilitator and others on the call. Nobody is farting rainbows :rainbow: they’re all very real. I couldn’t get myself to speak in the past, I couldn’t get real, couldn’t show myself but that has changed now. Been journaling and watching inspirational YouTube videos by some badass sober people like Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Affleck, Nikki Sixx and Alice Cooper. Going for runs, had a nice one this morning with my dogs :dog2:. Looking forward to a nice quiet day. Very grateful for all of you :heartpulse:

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I wish i was where you’re at! It’s cold and ugly here. Soak up all that wonderful sunshine and send some my way! Have a great day!

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The past two days have been a struggle for me but with this app and online meetings I made it through without drinking/using. Feeling very grateful to be on day 7.

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Free from weed! It’s been a rough 5 days and still having some withdrawals, but I’m feeling much better. I couldn’t have done it without all of you and my meetings! Thank you everyone! I also have to thank myself for sticking with it

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Day 56.

I may have figured out part of the reason I feel so shit. I’ve been ignoring a tooth ache for a few good weeks and these past couple of days it’s gotten so bad, I can’t sleep properly and the paracetamols (aka tylenol for those of you across the pond) and ibuprofens stopped working. So today I’m doing the responsible adult thing and going to an emergency dentist that managed to fit me in.

Yesterday I celebrated 55 days of sobriety by going to a shooting range. It was a nice wholesome sober activity. Actuality, one of the few activities I can think off where alchohol is absolutely forbidden lol. And I was proud of my husband for sticking to coffees all day. It was only my second time actually holding real guns, but the instructors were really good and helpful and made it all feel very safe. I mean, it was still freaky. And I’m a terrible shot.

So yeah, dentists and guns. That’s today’s update :rofl:

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Hi Hoss, great post, great to read you’re doing well :sparkling_heart:

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@Nowenbrace and @Rockstar24777 Thank you
guys so much!!

I have a super busy day today and don’t have much time to be on here so I hope i don’t forget anyone but much love to all you guys :heart:

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Day 32 AF! It is Saturday morning and cold here. I slept long and hard during the night and am groggy this morning.

Hope Everyone has a great day today!

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Congrats @Nordique for joining the 1000 club!!

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Wow congratulations on quadruple digits!!! Amazing work :star_struck:

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Congrats on getting thru that first week! Thats the toughest milestone @rsvf

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:joy::joy::joy: love this! Dentists and guns

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Checking in sober! Grateful AF (as f*ck in this case :joy:) to wake up sober and plan on being sober today. One day at a time. I feel like my body is still trying to figure out this change I made (18 days so far), alternating between exhaustion and some manic type feelings. Inspired by y’all regardless whether you’re on day 1 or 1,000 :purple_heart:

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I’m getting ready to attend my first in person meeting! It’s a CODA meeting. Codependency is one of my biggest problems. I get emotionally attached so easily…

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