I don’t know what’s more triggering for me than family. Even on a good day.
Sometimes people notice when I’m being selfish to my recovery. And that’s ok
Enjoy your hike.
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Oh my goodness! Congratulations 
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That’s a cool cool 
milestone friend!
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Congratulations on your 1 year of sobriety Hayley 
Sorry I’m late. But so excited for you.
Congrats!
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Checking in
Day 245 substance free
Day 162 self harm free
Hope y’all have a great night. 
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year milestone and 
year milestone!! 
#Day 1727 
They found one of my lost packages! 
Yesterday I got a message from the postal service that tomorrow I can recieve my parcel.
Happy with it because it contains a very nice amethist stone pendant. I bought one for my daugher as a surprise and one for myself as well. The one for my daughter arrived a week ago but mine didn’t. Seems they have found it 
But the expensive parcel is still lost.
The picture is from my daughters pendant, mine is simulair but a bit bigger.
Today? Work. Whole day on my own in our store because lack of staff. Hope the hot weather helps me to get not that many customers so I can handle it
Have a good monday all!
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Thank you @JazzyS for the shout out. Your kindness and support is so awesome as always.
Kind of a stressful day. Just happy to be in bed finally relaxing and sober. 
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Thanks so much for sharing this 
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Found it super motivational…glad you enjoyed.
Sorry today was stressful… .hoping for a better day tomorrow 
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Thank you Jasmine, the support you and everyone is offering me on here is helping to get me through this. I mastered staying zen when seeing them in the home country, but here is like my happy place has been intruded upon.
My dad knows what he’s doing with the constant put downs. He just thinks he’s smarter than everyone and that he learned how to insult people without them noticing. 
I saved up for most of the year to afford coming here for a month, so… yeah…
But this morning is better. I got up early, made the bed, showered and walked out the door straight away with the husband and the pup. I stopped on a seaside bench to meditate, now we’re having coffee at our usual mid-dogwalk place. So I’m feeling a bit more chilled and centered.
Just need to make the effort to get out early to meditate every morning. The way I start the day is pretty crucial to my recovery, it seems.
But… It is Day 149. I’m sober. And I survived my first big craving in months.
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Checking in sober another 24hours hope everyone is well taking it odaat that’s all we can do
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Have as good a day as you can all. Sober and clean. Love.
It’s my one day off. It’s hot. Not gonna do much today. Drink ginger lemonade. Stay in the shade. Maybe go the the pool, haven’t been there in at least a year 
. But I don’t have too much energy, working the weekend did wear me out a bit. Will see.
Nothing I will do today will involve booze or drugs. Sure of that. One day at a time. X
Pic is the non-old town side of Centraal Station Utrecht, last night after my second shift. Love the midnight blue close to midsummer.
@Amy30 You made it through and you learned something big too! Huge congrats on day 149 Amy. We got you and you got this.
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2 weeks being clean from self-harm.
First lesson in other class was pretty much funny. We watched movie and then listened rap. We also decided to change our phone ring on alien sound. 
I love this class already!
Also my boyfriend drew me. He’s not artist and doesn’t draw, but this piece is so beautiful. 
I hope everyone are okay. 
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Day 
So my lovely truck is getting prepared for yearly technical inspection. Got new wheels to spin now. Beautiful day today 
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Hi All,
I guess today has been a tough one for me. I’m 54 days (53 days and 17hrs) into sobriety.
TS has played a massive support in my sobriety, even though I tend to sit in the background reading posts and comments. I’m not usually one to reaching out and talk however today was a tough one.
My mum has PPMS and recently had a stroke (4 weeks ago). Today was the first day she became wheelchair bound and it was pretty heartbreaking as she’s always been such a strong willed person.
Not only do I care part time for my mum, but I’m also my husbands carer.
Sadly he is still undiagnosed (we have specialists all over Australia trying to diagnose him) with some form of a degenerative brain disease. We both went from high paying supervisory roles, to now I’m watching my husband not being able to drive, work and read or write. I struggled to hold my full time work down with all his medical appointments, so I had to change careers 6 weeks ago to casual work which is still a challenge to juggle home and work.
Daily I watch him battle to make sentences, he gets confused, angry, frustrated, upset and has uncontrolled seizures. We are only 35 years old and we’ve had our lives turned upside down.
I originally got sober for my mum and husband to become a better support. I now realise I’m doing this for me, but boy it’s been tough these past 7 weeks!
I’m not sure why I’m writing all this. We have lost all our friends since my husband got sick and then we quit drinking, which definitely kept everyone away. Clearly they weren’t real friends but it still hurts and feels lonely.
Anyway I’m not looking for sympathy, maybe this was away for me to just put feelings into words.
You’ve all helped me so much without realising it. From the food pictures and travelling sober photos to the emotional support this community provides, it’s made me feel apart of something bigger (even if I’m that awkward quiet person in the background). So thank you to you all!
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We need to share our stories. We need to be there for each other. To help ourselves. Thanks so much for sharing. Helps me not feeling alone. We truly are in this together Jeds. Sorry for all the hardships in your life. Somehow someway together we’ll make it through. I hope sharing helps you too. Wishing you much strength in these difficult times
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