I can totally relate
But I don’t think it will help you escape or relax from my past experiences. I would always be back to day 1 sober
I think real escape and relaxation comes from real fun. Going for walks to lakes or getting some food from a food truck or even ordering out. Watching tv can help relax your mind. I say I let the tv think for me while I’m watching something fun. Visiting a sober friend or spending time with family. Motivating music helps me a lot also.
Congrats on 2 years @Its_me_Stella
Love those numbers @Mbwoman
Really love your daily routine @Butterflymoonwoman
I really hope you are doing ok Menno @Mno
Day 55 AF
@GenG congrats on 3 weeks 
@DryIn785 welcome back 
@Mno keep going indeed, friend. I’m sorry about how you felt after therapy this week, and how alone you felt. Here, you are never alone 
thank you for sharing, sending love 🩵
@Juli1 so glad you are feeling better each day congrats on double digits
@SoberWalker your ring looks awesome 
how cool to have made it yourself too! 
@Butterflymoonwoman I’m sorry you’re having these dreams so often I have then too, even after coming up on 3 years of no drinking, in my dream the other night, I drank. Usually in my dreams everyone else is using but I’m sober, so it was quite disturbing that one. I don’t know if they will ever stop, our minds will always be sorting through and filing all sorts of memories from our lives and experiences. I know for me, my addiction experience was traumatic, so nightmares are to be expected, in a PTSD sense, so I’m hoping that when I get the right therapy, that may help. 
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@Catmama23 I’m sorry about the panic attack but congrats on 60 days
@Twizzlers I’m sorry about your trauma nightmare I do find mine can be worse in the daytime too, your theory may be right. 🩵
@mx_elle sending strength 🩵
@Its_me_Stella congrats on 2 years no SIB
985 days no alcohol.
450 days no cocaine.
72 days no vape.
TW: mentions binge-eating, disordered eating, food.
Well, with my ready meals delivery, I also bought a 1.1kg bag of no added sugar museli, thinking surely I wouldn’t binge that, but within 24hrs it was gone. 
Had my first ready meal this evening, and it was nice to eat a proper meal. But I have been hunting for food I can eat ever since I ate, and craving something sweet, specifically apple pie and custard, but I must resist. This is the problem with eating real food, I just want more and more, like with drugs. I hope the desire for more dies down over time, but we shall see, and if not, I will stick to just the shakes.
I was awake until 1:30am catching up here, so I slept late this morning, and I had very low energy today. I managed my ‘morning’ walk around 4pm, but I had no energy for my PM walk, and also my knees were randomly hurting a lot while I was out earlier. My body is so unpredictable/unreliable.
Planning an early night tonight so I can get back to my routines. -I did achieve this, but woke up at 1am so thought I’d finish my check-in.
I hope you’re all having wonderful sober weekends.
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I’m so sorry 
Wow!!! U have a beautiful home!!! That fire looks so nice!!!
I feel this too 
sometimes i almost dont want to have my first bite of food of the day bcuz it just makes me wanna eat more or i begin craving or hunting for something else. Its frustrating. With drugs and alcohol, we can just stop completely. But we need food to live so thats impossible to completely remove lol jist wanted u to know that ur not alone friend. Hope ur planned daily routine goes well for u tmrw and that u have a good night
Ur absolutely right!! And i love ur healthy ideas for relaxation 
thank u for the suggestions!
Thank you Dana! I love it where we live. I like country living. It is quiet and peaceful.
I love ur picture!!! 
Lilacs are my favorite flower!
Good morning from Cairns, Australia sobriety fam 
Checking in for today to maintain focus!
I’m grateful you’re here whoever and wherever you are reading this right now friend 
These are our unique stories unfolding in realtime! And we control the reigns from HERE ON… What do we really want, deep deep down? Only we know. But our manifesting destinies are part of an infinite universe so far from the realities of our minds… And here we are, each climbing the mountain that is life for the confidence, strength, endurance, pride, inner calm, maturity, experience, achievement, purpose, happiness and respect for existence it brings… 
Who is your ‘ideal’ you? 
And where does your ‘ideal’ life go from here? 
Checking in sober 195 days.
I have a lot on my mind, but it’s midnight and I’ve no energy to type anything up. 
Will have to come back tomorrow 
Hope y’all are having a good day/night
Love to see this
Nice catch on the number!!
Still on 75 days sober. Not the best day for me…but time to crash out and try for a better day tomorrow.
Day 2231 AF/ cig free.
I have been going back and forth with how much of this I want to share but I think this is very important for all of us.
On Thursday evening I suffered a TIA ( mini stroke). If I had not quit smoking and drinking 6 years ago, it would have been a big stroke.
I exercise every day, eat well, sleep well, take care of my mental health and physical health as much as I can.
20 years of drinking and smoking and drugs still took a toll on my body, and six years after trying to get better, it came back to bite me on the behind.
I was so upset! How can I be doing everything right for this long and still have these issues? But then I had to walk it back and remember that the small stroke was after six years of work. If that work hadn’t been done, I would likely be dead. Before 40.
I even posted on my 39th birthday that had I not quit, I thought I wouldn’t have made it to 40. A week and a half after that statement, I had some big emotions about seeing in real time that I was not over exaggerating the fact that I was going to die if I continued the way I was.
Please keep it up and work every day to get better at getting better. Someone out there loves you and needs you to be here still. Work you do today can, and probably will, save your life.
Sober ninja…i just had a tia…about 5 weeks ago…i can totally relate to what you are saying. Im glad you survived it. Take care.
Day 22. Earth Day! Got out and spent some time on a little inflatable row boat at the lagoon. Got a little sunburned, whoops. Thought about how nice it would be to have a beer a couple times, but drank sparkling water instead. I feel much better for it. I don’t miss the dehydration one bit.
So scary! I’m glad you are also okay. I’ve never felt like that before and I am hoping to never feel like it again.
