Checking in on Day 495
Just wanted to check in for today. Not much to report. Have a good night everyone!
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Checking in on day 742. Today was actually good. I’m at a family reunion on my SO’s side of the family. Really working on paying attention to my feelings and thoughts. Drank loads of La Croix and played for hours in the pool with the kids. A bit sunburned this evening. Really glad to be sober tonight. Tomorrow is a new day. Wishing everyone peace and strength. 
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Girvan on the west coast boarders not too far from Ayr. 
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Been a few times over the years. Not too far for us. 4.5 hr drive. Forecast could be better but we are packed and ready to go!
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Day 222
Holiday time. Packing the car for Scotland.
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Day 
Just breaked 35 hour fast. Did not ate anything. Did not ate the bread too as it is not smart to spike insulin during the fast and turn off autophagy process. Decided to eat that bread at the end of the Fast. Only water, tea and prayers.
Happy St. John’s Day! We also celebrate The Feast Of Dews here.
From the ancient times, people marked the time of the return of the Sun, the shortest day and longest night. In olden times, it was called Rasos or Kupolė (the Feast of the Dews). When Christianity established in our lands, the name was changed to Feast of St. John, according to Christian traditions.
The most archaic tradition of this day is tall poles with wheels at their top, set on fire. The wheel symbolized the primitive farmers’ attitudes to the sun or her travel cart. The tradition of boating on lakes and rivers in flower and boats decorated with wreath, in which a fire was lit, symbolized the floating sun and was widespread throughout lands.
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Have as good a day as you all can friends. Sober and clean. Love.
A productive Friday. Had a good and happy session with my therapist. Back to serious work next time. Had my bike serviced well. Did a hike both in Utrecht to and from therapy and in Amsterdam to pick up my bike. Ate loads of strawberries and peaches. Drank lots of lemonade.
At night had a busy one moderating here. I learn so much from that. It’s such a great way to try and give some back to this community. Grateful I can do that and grateful to my fellow mods. We make a great team together.
Today it’s back to work second shifts for the weekend. That’s fine. Got to hurry a little bit, want to see my nephew compete in his first rowing race as a single sculler, coming from the 8’s and 4’s. Love you all X. Pic is Utrecht yesterday.
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Aw Twizzle, I feel for you with all that upheavel going on, it can be hard to deal with. You seem to be in a very positive mindset and are seeing past the mess and disruption and looking ahead to when things will be sorted and the work complete.
I’m in the same situation exactly. There’s 4 of us our house and every room will be worked on. Unfortunately they haven’t found us anywhere to move into while this is going on so who knows what’s going to happen. I think I’ll move into our caravan for a few weeks!
I hope you can save your plants and can put back together your beautiful sounding refurbished garden. Stay positive 
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Every time I see a Finnish name on the forum my brain goes what…huh…eh 
Those guys are still ultimate hockey legends over here.
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day 278 AF
Well this weekend so far we have laid to rest our friend, I have watched my wife reconnect with friends sharing stories and remembering our friend.
The feelings of wanting a drink have faded now thankfully. We are somewhat recovering a moment at a time.
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Day 161.
Apologies in advance for the TMI, but I feel like my insides are being thorn apart. I hate being a woman sometimes.
Yesterday I had an appointment with my shrink and she prescribed me a supply of meds to get me through to September. I wanted a mental health break from mental health services and now I got it.
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Day 36 AF had a rough night CPTSD so thought id check in cos i feel myself wanting to had a drink escape. I wont ill win i know i i will peace out people
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Letsgo!! 
Also what is that app called? :-0
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Day 917,
Had a nice meeting yesterday evening. Felt quit good after a session of cranio visceraal therapy. No talking but body directed therapy. Had a nice phone call with a Dutch TS friend.
Today my father turns 80, gonna go there with my son, my brother will also be there with his man. Need to pick up my son, but don’t feel to confident in the car right now. My father wants to drive, but I hate that dependency. I’m already to much depending on him, due to my depressive episode. Still processing the meeting with HR I had. Discussed with therapist what the possibilities are to get me out of it. She did send me the details of a centre which does an in-house treatment for 9 to 12 months 
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@Complicatedmama Patty, I’m sending prayers for peace and comfort as you start the infusions. I’m grateful you have your parents and I hope that their home is a place of safety and comfort for you. I am grateful that you have your sobriety. Thank you for checking back in. You are so loved.
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Hey all, checking in on day 1,105. I hope everybody has a good one!
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Hey day 41 feel sooo tired! Sorting out job interviews, therapy, a neighbour bbq last night all great things but very tiring on my brain, need to not feel guilty to relax as my autistic side needs rest to perform for interviews next week and my controlling brqan saying keep moving!!! Have a great day everyone!
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Celebrating 7 days today with no blips or desire to blip. I was perusing online menus this morning trying to decide where to have a nice dinner & was searching for mocktails … whaaat? 
Happy to be sober & well this beautiful morning. Grateful for this community.
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Hey there, I tried a quick google search for “no deficit me,” but I didnt get a hit on it. With this approach or mantra do you first identify your own deficits? Then build in some daily changes to address or correct those deficits? Just my guess, but I’m interested in learning more about this.
And hey you came to the group even on day 0. Feel good that you did that! Even drunk you knew where to go to turn it around. Wishing you a day 1.
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