Lovely pic of the canal Mno. Biking there and back will be brave but if it turns out to be a nice day, so worth it
Checking in Day 11
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7 days sober
1 full week
Just had a quick job interview. He took my name and number and asked if I was available night. I said I was available all day every day. I hope I get it but Iāll be filling out job applications until I hear back
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Thatās beautiful.
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Checking in day 256! Havenāt checked in for a bit and want to get back to it.
Had some car and work stress recently, but all resolved. Starting to feel a bit of an upswing with my mood, and been getting out to enjoy some fun things with friends. Long work day ahead but off tomorrow.
Wishing everyone a wonderful sober Thursday 
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This is truth. I learned this the hard way with my relapse. I thought I could intellectualize/rationalize my way out of drinking cravings and boy was I wrong.
Congrats on 100 days, wow that is huge!!! Big hugs 
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@GenG - hang in there with the PAWS stuff, youāre doing awesome and I love seeing those day numbers rack up! 
@SoberWalker - I read your post last night have have been mantra-ing it since, thinking about my own boundaries and what I can vs canāt control. Boundaries are a complex thing for meā¦ Iāve taken something from a meditation, where I ask myself ādoes this action align with my true yes or true no?ā This helps me not lose myself when I feel like Iām having to surrender to so much. I also learned that resentments form when we act against what is our true yes or true no. Even self pity is a form of inward-facing resentment.
Take for example the coworker I love to hate. Why do I resent them? Is it really their behavior (like I think) or because I allow their behavior to impact how I feel about my work, my day, myself? Because I violate my own boundaries trying to keep them happy? I canāt control what they say or do, only what I say or do.
Speaking of, @Misokatsu this is the mediation I used for that from Insight Timer! Thereās a lot more out there Iām excited to explore too. Iāll include the anger one as well!
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CueBallā¦nice work my friend on the 100 days. Keep it up odaat. Thank you for all your supportive posts. Hope your pain is subsiding too
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Checking in
Day 459
Today i woke up feeling mentally āheavyā and fatigued. I definitly didnt feel myself. I wasnt going to do anything honestly. Didnt feel like praying or exercising. Didnt feel like doing a single thing oyher than having a nap. I was in such a funk for no apparent reason. I got my son on the bus for school and then my husband called and he helped me pull out of it by encouraging me to pray and exercise. So thats what i did. I didnt really want to but boy did i ever need it! Had a good prayer session and then went and did a leg workout and some cardio. I showered, got dressed, and chose to put on some makeup to feel good and then went out for a walk (its not as smokey today) to grab a smoothie for lunch. I feel like 100x better. Im actually really proud of myself right now. I could have easily stayed in my funk and gave into not doing a thing to help myself, but i chose not to. And i did the opposite of what i wanted to do. And it freakin helped! I doubted initally that it would. But it really, really did. I feel sooo much better. Im hoping everyone is having a decent day also 
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@icebear do talk to your doctor if the symptoms persist. I do hope the withdrawal gets easier 
@DryIn785 Iām glad you had a blessed day yesterday ā hope today is as great! Glad you got your meds, inhalers and nicotine patches. Do hope you start feeling awesome overall
@maxwell do set smaller goals so that you donāt set yourself up for failure. We have to be kind to ourselves especially during the early days. You ae making progress and that is awesome ā regardless of anything you are another day sober my friend and that alone is HUGE! 
@Markjackson Glad you did get out for a walk ā I do hope the fresh air helped. I do hope that the symptoms you are experiencing do become less persistent and get easier.
@Dmcg1987 best of luck with your interview! 
@Mno Iām sorry that the group therapy is not working. Is it possible to join a different group? Take deep breathes my friend. I do find you to have a very positive outlook on the whole sobriety journey and I do hope the positivity you shed our way gets you through your own anxious moments. We are here if you need to talk it out!
@Noshame ā fingers crossed my friend -Hope you do hear back soon enough
@Butterflymoonwoman woman I am in awe lady ā great job on not letting the funk define your day and set in. You are a warrior ā so happy to hear how your day turned out to be so amazing and hell yeah ā should be super proud of yourself
Checking in Thursday afternoon
148 days Weed and Alcohol free
563 days cigarette free
This whole lad in the system had me really feening - I knew I needed this community but didnāt realize how much I needed all of you to keep me in check and sober! So glad to have this site up and running again. I have been doing a lot of meditating and praying which is soothing but also so exhausting at times ā such an emotional rollercoaster ā super healing. I am sober and slowly working to get my work done. Wishing you all a wonderful sober day my friends 
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Awesome job turning that feeling around. I can definitely relate and always feel better when I do what I know is the next right thing for me and my sobriety. Itās freaking hard!
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I donāt look at my day tracker often but managed to see this lovely number today!
It made me feel pretty good after a rough migraine morning. Could be a weather trigger as the sky is completely hazy, or could be affected by my mowing the lawn last evening, who knows. Sometimes it is more exhausting to try and sus out the cause of a migraine than to just move on after it has passed. Iām just glad I was able to sleep a long time and my husband checked on me once but then left me alone. Apparently I picked a decent time for it because I mostly missed TS being down, just was around for some of the lagging.
Iām starting to gather my yard and garden things and decide what I want to keep or what to give away. Time is moving at a weird pace right now as we approach our closing date on the house. It feels both super fast and slow at alternate times. We set dates for my family to come help with the last bits of the move, so it is feeling more real. Iām starting to realize how strange it will feel at first! A big transition, indeed. Iām grateful to be going through this sober. Hereās a pic of my hazy sky and pile of planters and potsā¦and thatās only about half of them! 
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I for first time after very long time stayed completely alone at home. Iām always most of the time with my dogs alone at home. My father needed to check them to the doctor because I have no energy to do that.
Andā¦ It felt so strange to be like that alone. I started to feel a lot uncomfortable and after that I felt how someone is standing behind my back, watching me and I heard their thoughts about me. āStupid, stupid! Why you wrote to your ex gf about your feelings to her? Now she will again publicly bully you. Asshole.āā¦
I felt a lot anxious andā¦ I just started to talk to himā¦ To that guy. Figure. Whatever it was.
I asked him to go away when I will be outside andā¦ Now Iām standing outside, sitting on grass and for unknown reason my eyes feel like I cried a lot?? But it feels so nice to deeply breathe fresh air and feel on my skin that a bit coldish air.
I have no single idea what was that. Maybe some hallucinationā¦ Whatever.
Important is that I feel now a bit better.
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Thanks for sharing this. Just shows me that it can be done! 
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day 242/8 Months
Morena team
Today is 8 months Alcohol free, jees what a journey!
Managed to keep my cravings and bay and also doing soberness in my own terms no meetings or step work.
I know if i ever come to needing it again that they are there along with some good people.
But this journey is mine this time around, ive learnt alot this time and its all good things coming from being off the drink.
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Congratulations 
Great work!!
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Huge congratulations 
@CueBall8n9 @Markjackson congrats to you also on your 100 
I know Iv missed alot the past few days so to all of us congrats 
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That sounds difficult
Glad your okay now, hope your dog is home with you soon too.
Had something like this happened to you before ?
How many days sober are you ?
Big hugs
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