Hi I’m karlie and I have 3 days.
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Thx @Soberbilly I appreciate it! It feels different. There’s a connection, I think, between belonging (for example, to a fellowship like SA) and sharing accountability (taking account of what you are and what you can be and will be, and sharing that).
Belonging, and sharing: what’s more human than that?
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Yes, this is my first time using this app. I have tried to get clean in the past three times but I felt like I was doing it for other people enough for me and this time I’m doing it for me I want to be better.
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A night without having to cook or an aa meeting…tv time i guess
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Today I am 33 days sober, and it’s my 38th birthday. I’ve never been crazy about birthdays; I find the attention awkward and feel kind of forced to interact with family/friends I’d rather avoid. My recovery journey thus far has been very solitary in a way that works for me, so today’s birthday attention from people who don’t know the enormous shift I’ve made for my life… it was kind of depressing. Like I wanted to feel loved and appreciated but there was a weird barrier to accepting it. That feeling has started lift but it caught me off guard. Now I’m just doing my best to shift perspective towards gratitude and prepare for another day of freedom and learning tomorrow.
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@SGC1522 hAppY BirThDaY Sara 
and beautiful share 
@Its_me_Stella Thx for the moving share Stella!
No shame or guilt reminds me to finish my amends. Can do will do 
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6:30am here. Didn’t drink yesterday so that’s day 2, again.
Big work ahead of me.
Take care all x
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I found out today I start the LPN program this fall! If someone told me 5 years ago that i would be doing this i would have laughed myself sick!
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Random but my daughter is called joanie and I haven’t come across anyone called it unless it’s been on the telly. Lol made my morning 
have a good day x
Checking in on day 44, feeling good today, although sleep was terrible last night again, with 5 hours sleep and 2 hours being awake. Nothing a strong, black coffee couldn’t resolve 
@K_smile welcome and all the best for your journey! It’s gonna be a ride worth remembering 
@ASpray one more sober day to mark in your calendar, well done!
@SGC1522 happy birthday to you 
! You already got yourself the perfect gift, 33 days of staying sober 
Have a good day!
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Have as good a day as you all can friends. Sober and clean. Love from Amsterdam.
@Mary_Cimino Congrats on starting your program! And great to see you lady. Thanks for sharing.
@SGC1522 Congrats on your sobriety and on your birthday Sara!
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Happy sober birtday Sara!! 
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#Day 1604 
A bit sad. Had a talk at work about my perfectionism and my co workers being insecured by it. So your share @Matt was a bit of a mirrow. It’s so double. I want to let go of this in my eyes bad habit, but it brings me a lot as well.
And if I wanna work on letting go that perfectionism I notice I try that in a manic perfectionistic way as well 
I was thinking…maybe I have to accept it. Embrace it more? Embrace me more? Accept that I am what I am and being ok with it with all the good and the bad?
I am ok
Monday I have my yearly talk about how I’m doing at work. I know it will be on the list to talk about. I am not perfect, I know I’m not. I do not want to be that believe me. Then why I am so cramped to do good?
Haven’t walked for a few days, so this day an older picture.
Have a good day folks
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The realization I’m a perfectionist myself only came recently to me, by feedback I got on one of my own shares (thanks @Faugxh). For me it has to with my childhood (duh), with taking care of myself since too young and too early, of being in survival mode always and forever, of not being allowed by myself to show any weakness. Because ‘they’ are all out to get me. It’s me against the world. I have to be perfect because else there’ll be hell to pay. Trust no one. Certainly do not trust myself either.
Unlearning this behaviour is a work of years. I hope I’m doing it, one day at a time. Through being here, through therapy. Through trying out new behaviour. No way I could do it while using and drinking. Never again. Hugs.
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Sometimes I wished we could hug. Juuuust barely not close enough. 
One day.
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Hey all, checking in on day 970. I hope everybody has a good one!
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Karen you are doing so wonderfully I am majorly proud of you.
the hard days are hard, the depression is mean, but we are harder and meaner and we can persevere odaat.
continue on your path.
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I love this so much
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That’s hilarious.
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