Congrats on hitting triple d’s 
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Congrats on 10 months! 
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Back to day 1 for me after a small relapse. Was doing so good on Day 4. Im still counting the 4 days as something and moving on to make it double and triple numbers. Lets stay clean this time!!
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Thank you so much @Steve14 
I’m pretty proud of it! I appreciate you!!
@NewBeginning1 Hi Matt! Just focus on what you can do to avoid the relapse, we learn from every mistake, take that and keep moving forward!
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I got confused too and had to check my calendar. It’s in the end of March 
it’s basically the same word in Swedish Sommartid.
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Day 70… 10 weeks AF 
It’s been a day of laundry, healthy eating and getting ready to take the dogs out for a walk. It’s not warm here but the sun is shining so I’ll take it.
Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Much 
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What i did and wanted to do was focus on health
Vitamins help
Multie Vitamins
It helps me feel human again
Also good food and more water. Like a lot of water. I just sit there and chug to be hounest and the good food also makes me feel human
Potato salad with oringe juice
Changed my ways looking at food and health
So much better then junk food
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Day 62 AF
Day 180 doc free
Checking in. Hope everyone is doing ok. Doing ok today. One.of those days were I’m taking it slowly and being kind to myself.
Keep at it all. ODAAT! 
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Congratulations on triple digitss Ami. Well done! Proud of you! Keep at it! 
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Huge congratulations on 2000 days. You have been a huge inspiration to myself and others on this platform. Way to go! Keep at it! 
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Day 260.second check in. My wife had her brother and parents round for a meal. Great to see them all but she and her brother do drink alot when they are together. So I was a bit uncomfortable at times… He is a lovely man but definitely an edge to him after a few drinks, some barbed comments but all good. It was a decent day and i know from my own past behavior there is a fine line between being gregarious and then being a bit of a c@ck. Evening ended by 7.30pm. They had drunk probably four bottles of wine between them… They behave like teenagers when they meet up. He left to meander home and my wife was in tears and asleep by 9.15
Watching people drink and change is really uncomfortable… As that’s me. Go from quiet to drunk to drinking till it’s all gone. It’s not attractive. It’s ugly
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@RosaCanDo I love all of this for you 🩵 but PF is a big OUCH 
definitely rest it. Your Zen den looks very calming
@K_S congrats on 80 days
@Juli1 congrats on 40 days and yay for healing sleep 
@acromouse congrats on 7 days no UPFs and a good night’s rest
@NewBeginning1 congrats on making the right decision, it’s extra hard when you get that close, to turn around and walk away, but you did it 
let that teach you what you really want deep down, sobriety. Just read your update, sorry for the circumstances but welcome back 
@apes2020 welcome back I’m glad you came right back here to try again 🩵
@SoberWalker congrats on 2000 days
@Seb stunning photo 
@Steve92 congrats on the new job I hope it’s a good fit 
@IamThechange congrats on triple digits 
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@CleanHeart congrats on 2 weeks
@Button83 congrats on 3 weeks
@SobrietyForMe welcome back congrats on getting through day 1
@Noshame congrats on 10 months AF
@tifflynn07 congrats on 70 days
@Jimz congrats on 70 days to you too
1308 days no alcohol.
773 days no cocaine.
288 days no vape.
33 days no binge-eating.
Slept a bit better, but woke up early, hours before any alarms, couldn’t get back to sleep so I did some reading.
Battled through my anxiety and eventually managed to have a bath. I wish it wasn’t such a struggle.
Wrapped my step-mum’s gifts and wrote her card.
Drove to the cemetary in my hometown, waited for my brother. Took flowers and stood at my mum’s grave a while, it was raining hard.
Went to my dad’s, spent a couple of hours there
It was okay. I held my baby niece a while. She’s growing and is very wriggly, she smiles now too.
Drove home, fed the cats, took my lunchtime meds that I forgot to take before I left, because I haven’t refilled my pill box yet. Waiting a while before I take my evening ones.
Tomorrow is new therapy day, session 4.
I hope you’ve all had wonderful sober weekends.
🩵
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Checking in. Today was the first day I didn’t smoke during daytime. I plan to smoke only in the evenings for 5 days and go cold turkey from the 15th of March. So today was difficult, but underneath the irritability and restlessness my deeper mood was more balanced. I guess I now focus so much on the present moment and on distractions that I don’t have any focus left for my other problems. Also this helps me to shift my approach to a more self-centered one which works well against overthinking.
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Thanks my friend 
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@k_s Great w2ok on 80 days Kenny! Love that attitude friend – looking forward to celebrating your 3 months soon 
@juli1 WOOT WOOT way to go Jules – great work on 40 days girl. Relaxing and healing – I loved reading this – hope you keep it going strong 
@soberwalker ooh yeah 2000 days just hours away! Hope you enjoyed your time with the animals today Claudia. There it is – great to see you breaking your past streaks and still climbing
@mno OOH ok – biking from a city of cake to a city of books – may be in heaven – I’m sure good coffee was a needed too 
I started typing before I finished reading :laughing – Oh man – i’m sorry you didn’t get to enjoy either. Next time.
@newbeginning1 Grateful you did not relapse friend. Great strength show That little devil addict voice can be convincing that we can handle just that one time… all lies and we’ve seen the end result. Remind yourself of the aftermath when the urges hit. Glad to see you pushing forward with 4 days. Just saw your update friend – way to go on getting right back on track to day 1… keep vigilant and keep stacking up the numbers my friend – it does get easier.
@apes2020 Glad to see you right back at it April… the triggers can be a bitch especially when they catch us off guard. Great job on working towards your day 1
I love this! Hoping for some lovely enjoyable concerts in your future.
@iamthechange WAY TO GO Ami – triple digits and going strong.
@cleanheart Way to go with your 2 week milestone friend – hope you and your wife rest up and start feeling better soon.
@button83 3 weeks and kicking ass girl – way to go!
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@lighter Oh those grumpy days suck. I do hope that you managed a nap and are feeling better now. The early days do suck but don’t last. Keep utilizing your tools and your support and keep pushing through
@noshame Wowzers (I’m glad I didn’t miss it) – 10 months is amazing Matt – keep it going friend.
@tifflynn07 Nicely done with 70 days – hope you get to chillax now and enjoy Sunday.
@jimz Lovely to see you with 70 days James. Love sober living – keep it going strong
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Just checkinf in from the city. Wow home exchange so far, amazing. I so much prefered rentals that qere actually peoples spaces to how airbnb has become now…so this is so wonderful. Hope the family we exchanged with is enjoying our home too.
Had a great day with my nephew and son, then whole family cane with me for the evening and supper. Love being with them all, and at the same time its really good we have our own space…we have some nice plans lined up with friends, our sister in law and my mons birthday to celebrate. Its always very emotional for my mom and this is no different.
Sending love to you all & thanks to everyone whos helped me through this time xo. Happy 24 xo
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Just doing an evening check in. Work was good, been getting alot of compliments from nursing staff, saying they dont ever see others move stuff off the patients stands or clean under them. Its just nice to hear im doing good. Today while i was cleaning i was doing this gentlmans stand and his phone was on the stand and i asked him to grab it bc i dont like touching personal belongings like that incase it drops or w.e but he picked it up and seemed sad and was like i dont even know why i have this i have no charger for it. And we talked and i finished cleaning and left, went and got lunch and when i was done stopped to the gift shop and got the man a nice long cable and charger. He was very happy when i brought it to him and i was glad i could get him one so he could connect with his family. Im not posting this to look for recognition but it just makes me happy to share, if i were in my addiction and and all fogged from the drugs and alcohol the night before i probably wouldnt of even cared about what he said bc i would of been to busy thinking about how im gonna get drunk or high after work. Anyways got home, ordred myself some groceries and yeah off tomorrow so probably just going to relax and hopefully feel better lol. Anyways much love everyone
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1,953 days. It is such a blessing to be walking free of the prison I kept myself in. I was stuck, and couldn’t make any steps forward in my life without sliding back. I relapsed several times in my attempts to get out, but what I learned from people on this forum helped me make things stick. I was supported by people who know exactly what addiction is like. I got the tough love I needed (though it made me angry at the time), and learned lessons from other people’s experiences without having to make the same mistakes myself. The recovery community in general (on and off the forum) helped me make the attitude changes I needed. I needed to stop drinking, but to stay stopped, I needed to grow into a person who doesn’t want to drink.
All it would take is one drink, for me to get sucked right back in. This is a fragile state, and it is also not. To use an analogy, I have built a massive dam to keep addiction at bay. All it would take is one tablespoon of water leaking through a crack in the wall to bring the whole dam crashing down. If water can leak through a crack, it means the dam was already broken, and it’s only a matter of time before the crack becomes a breach.
My sobriety, like a dam, will be fine once built if I maintain it, monitor it for weaknesses, and fix any weaknesses I do find. I must always take it seriously and not take unnecessary risks.
There is no “just one and that’s all”. Everything is compromised from the very first incident.
There are things in life you can skimp on. Recovery is not one of them.
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