Thank you. I found a morning and late night (EST) and the host is Canadian and there’s people from all over there too. I’m definitely going to check around a bit for back up lol. Thanks again✨🩷
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Day 67. Ok day. Not much to report.
Have a good 24
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Checking in.
Bought some tiramisu as I wanted a nice desert. Did NOT think about alcohol in it AT ALL until I wanted to put it on a plate and realized. It’s back in the fridge now and will give it away tomorrow…
I know it’s not a lot of alcohol, but it’s also about my brain and how it registrates the taste. So no, not going to eat one bite of it.
It does tell me however how far away alcohol abuse was on my mind while buying it, not at all thinking about it!! Good sign.
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399 days AF
You can do it.
I am sure 
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Checking in day 24 sober of alcohol and coke
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Checking in. 38 AF, 41 weed free. Greetings from the psych ward, sober fam! Another day in a paradise, fuckin’ hell. I’m going home either on Thursday or Friday which is fine. I’m feeling slightly better about the move to my new apartment. Now I’m living in a pretty shitty area full of narcs and quite much of violence. I’m too afraid to walk outside at nights and once I got suddenly jumped by some narc in a broad daylight who tried to hit me in the face but as an old martial arts practitioner, I was able to defend his punch. He walked away and laughed and I just shouted “what the fuck”, but he had two friends with him, so I’m lucky they didn’t attacked me. My new neighbourhood is a really nice one, calm and safe one and lots of nature surrounding it, so can’t wait to move in there. This feels like a fresh start. But first I gotta just get through these couple of first weeks until all the financial and bureaucratic stuff have sorted out. I’m really stressed and anxious and feeling pretty hopeless, but by God’s firm hand, I will get through this. The good ol’ Jesus got my back.
Thank you everyone for your kind words and encouragement! Luv ya all! Have a great 24!
“The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It’s enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren’t worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.” ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
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Hopefully not the final curtain but the start of a new show…Always a pleasure.
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@Tragicfarinelli - thank you, lovely 
it helps a lot knowing we have each other’s backs.
@tailee17 - Well… I made pancakes and they didn’t last long. Pancake day is awesome! 
Second check-in because fuck me, life’s weird. Do y’all remember that client who dumped me like right before Xmas last year and fucked my holidays? Me neither. A lot has happened since.
However, as pissed off as I was back then over losing income so close to the holidays, I was also sober and resisted the urge to tell him how I really felt. And now he emailed out of the blue and wants me on this new project! See… it pays not to burn bridges. Who would’ve thought? Not me. Burning bridges used to be my superpower.
I’m actually crying right now because I need the work. Desperately.
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Checking in today with 111 days of sobriety, has been a ridiculously busy and stressed filled start to the week, but it’s going to get easier I know it will. I can do all things through he who strengthens me.
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Day 21
I want nothing more than to go to the store and buy wine and a whole cake. Maybe some cheese and bread too. And ice cream.
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Checking in today with 111 days of sobriety, has been a ridiculously busy and stressed filled start to the week, but it’s going to get easier I know it will.
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You can handle this. Play the tape through. Why do you want to drink in this moment? What are the consequences or repercussions? We’re here for you.
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Day 9 no weed. Discipline. I find I thrive under a good dose of structure and when I establish rules for myself. I’m compassionate with myself, there is no “restriction”, I’m against this and it doesnt work, but maintaining a good structure with boundaries is what i needed. Also, MA meetings… women meetings… 
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Day 368
Thanks so much for all the hearts and kind words! I’m in a bit of a whirlwind lately it seems. Doing the often tedious stuff behind a career change. Waiting on people to follow up. Trainings with hokey music from home. Meeting dozens of people and remembering only 2 names. You pack your patience and it’s easier.
There’s a rare dust storm right now. A baboon. Everything is kinda crazy at the moment.
Lots of love
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Just checking in 38 days AF. It really helps being in this wonderful group, seeing the milestones and reading so many inspiring posts. What a wonderful bunch of people you all are.
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Checking in. Wow, so many great ideas and responses that make sense and hit home. @TS66 @CR84 @james83 @Jeanine @acromouse @StacyAnn and I hope I didn’t forget anyone - thank you so much I’ve got a lot to think about.
I have been having difficulty managing the stress in my life. The terrible and inconsiderate noisy neighbors, resentment for being attacked on this issue instead of heard, and having to pay the fee, upcoming stress with moving, financial stress, work stress, while managing with a brain that can’t remember how to make its own dopamine very well. But guess what? That’s life and no excuse to drink. I could not talk myself out of the craving. It became an obsession until I desired it above all else. Was it worth it? Is it ever? Hell no. If alcohol worked, we wouldn’t all keep coming back here, would we? I need to reevaluate and redesign my program. What is working and what isn’t. The day after I was so grossed out and disappointed with myself. I love the new sober life I’m building and how much better I feel when I don’t drink.
@SarahBear we both came back and we can certainly stay sober today 
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Checking in this evening. Glad to see so many folks renew their sobriety after all-too-human relapses. You’re a big part of the community here; you can’t go anywhere. We, I, need you.
I finished my errands this morning, so I can have a true stay-at-home day Wednesday. We had a line of high winds, including tornadoes, and rain fly through here in the last 90 minutes. Thirty-five mph sustained winds and two inches of rain in an hour, but we dodged the tornadoes and never lost power. I’m grateful for that and also that I would have been sober if the storms were worse. We’re back to clear skies now.
I think I’m going to watch a movie and go to sleep. Sleep well, sober friends.
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I’m sorrry you’re going through dark times. I’m so sorry I’ve been MIA. You’re so special to me, more than you know. I’m always here for you! You know where to find me when I poor if you ever need anything at all! Keep taking in all of the beauty that surrounds you. You are part of that beauty to those around you. I love that you have access to beautiful art as well. Wow! 
1738 days for me, thanks to oeople like you xo
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Holy discipline. That’s awesome. I, honestly, don’t know I would have given it a second thought. Also never really thought about that possibility in the past:face_with_peeking_eye:
this is admirable for sure 
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