I love your Seaborne check-ins, thanks for sharing them with us. Cool to see you reaping the benefits of sobriety so viscerally.
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I always look forward to your check-ins ,glad you’re all getting on well .
Isn’t the saying the motion of the ocean when it rocks you to sleep 
Enjoy your day 
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Day 20 of being sober and clean 
I’m feeling more like my positive self today, thank god .
Yesterday was a very real reminder why I’m staying sober , the floods of flash backs of bad behaviour wasn’t the best 
Going to see family as it’s my day off then might pop in on best friend for coffee later 
Have a great day everyone
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Not much to report.
Let’s stay sober together 
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897 sugar
761 UPFs
I can see the sun. The clouds are gone. Love this spring weather changes. Going to play with some of my ideas, cook a bit, move a bit, and host a meeting of our coop builing project later.
Peace and love always 
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Good Morning, guys. We go again! 
Day 60 AF.
I’m 6 days away from beating my longest streak. Starting to feel better about the relapse after spending a few days away from here immediately after relapsing to reflect and lick my wounds. I tend to be hard on myself over stuff like that.
Have a great day and do it sober. 
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Checking in: day 54.
Just back from the hospital where they injected my blocked nerve in my left upper leg with meds and a painkiller. It takes a few weeks for the meds to work but I feel positive about the procedure. Just one more hospital appointment (surgery on June 8th) and then hopefully I am done. Just made the arrangements with my mom that I am going to stay there for 2 weeks after the surgery.
My goal this year is to fix everything in and on my body that is fixable and will make my life and pain more manageable. They say: your body is a temple. Well, I am doing some serious restoration work on this one 
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Getting my mind and body in balance is my biggest life goal at the moment. Getting sober plays a big part is this goal and this makes me extra motivated to stay sober.
Now the rest of the day: laundry, painting, reading and if the numbness in my leg goes away maybe a little walk?
Stay safe and sober
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Day 11
Week passes by so fast.
Didn’t think about drinking yesterday evening.
A colleague of mine said I look good and not so tired as usual.
Nice feeling, mind seems to be clear.
Working from office today.
Will come home and cook smth nice
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Day 8, 6 days till deftones.
Not a bad day today. Managed to get out of the house for a dvd hunt, picked up a couple I opened my wife’s favourites. Finished a trilogy and picked up a cult classic ive not yet seen.
Feeling a bit better. Hannah hasn’t been as quick to bounce back but its been nice spending a whole week with her. Something we dont often get. Take the good with the bad.
While I was out today my mind wandered a little I used to drink alot out of boredom. This is why I try to keep myself busy with random things. Im ok though. As I draw nearer to going up north I am trying to figure out how to stay busy with out burning myself out pre concert.
Ill start looking for a job once im home, not having routine is driving me mental. Heaps of stress without an income. Money has always been a huge stress for me and I dont want to be a burden on hannah any longer than needed. Im not letting this derail me again.
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Hell yeah, great job! Stick to the plan and I bet before you know it you’ll have a bunch of zeros at the end of that 10 and a whole new life of stability you get to enjoy!!
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Congratulations brother!
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Good morning everyone,
Today’s basically day two for me of no THC. The night before last had a lot of night sweats and tossing and turning which is an indicator that my use was excessive. I’m really going to try to remember that as I feel one of the things that helped me with alcohol was during my times of dryness and realizinghow I was actually having symptoms of DT’s… there were many times when I quit and then drank and then quit and then drank before whatever magic saved me, but I do remember that it was real life physical verifiers about how my addiction is affecting me I think helped when I was finally ready to really quit.
Anywho fast forward to today and it’s an okay day. I am pretty sure I’m on like day seven of the low key covid infection so last night I was up with a dry cough but feel decent today and I’m at work.
My goal today is to remove focus on my plan to not smoke. I plan on doing cardio after work which I usually use beforehand due to the muscular skeletal pain but also because I think I’ve created a habit around using beforehand. I’m going to keep it simple and I’m going to try to reassure myself at every step about how good this is including how even food tastes a little better since I seem to have more saliva than I used to and I wonder if my chronic dry eyes will become less irritating by the end of the day.
I’m grateful that I have my wife who is supportive and I’m grateful that you all are here for me to share with without fear or judgement. 
I hope everyone has a wonderful, sober day.
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It sounds silly but when someone notices you looking better it makes you feel good I find .
A few colleagues have mentions me looking really well .
Good for your doing amazing and it’s great to see
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Glad you’re feeling better
Sound like you got a plan going forward Boredom is definitely a catalyst for addiction I find . Keeping busy is great 
Whatever you decided to occupy yourself with up north you know where we re , keep us to hand.
You’ve totally got this x
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Hey all, checking in on day 2153. I hope everybody has a good one!
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Day 170 no weed.
Worried about a buddy stopping mental health medication for weed… New user too. I’m applying Al Anon logic, but I’m still trying to find out how to help. I told them I was an addict, and I know the difficulties with using and if they needed me, I’d always be there. 
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AF 7699
Yesterday was a great day. I kept my commitment to deep cleaning some cabinets, had a very good workout, listened to some fabulous 70’s soul music (what band is the Earth Wind and Fire of the 2020’s?), and in my men’s study group we finally finished the Plain Language Big Book. Next week we start Drop the Rock, and frankly I have some fear about two things - doing another thorough moral inventory to identify traits and then to radically release them.
I will continue my deep clean today - 6 cabinets is my goal today. Planning on doing a a couple of loads of laundry, taking a nice long cardio pace walk (5 miles) and then hitting up a more local AA speaker meeting this evening. Life in retirement does demand that I create and adhere to my own daily and weekly goals - they don’t pay me to show up any more, but I still need to show up for myself and my family.
Carry on, soberinos!
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Day 178
Two days away from 180 - as a darts fan I’m looking forward to hitting that number.
My husband is doing well all things considering, the dogs are happier too.
Slowly been getting back in to work and confident that if the weekend is smooth I’ll be back to normal on Monday. One of my colleagues simply told me he was running a two hour customer meeting on my behalf and I am very grateful.
It’s going to be nice to get some time to do some things I enjoy.
Happy sober 24 everyone
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Good going, guy. Withdrawals can be quite severe from marijuana, in my (work) experience the second week is often a bit worse still. So be prepared. It’s all doable. Just keep going one day at a time. And use the tools you used when you quit drinking. As you already are. Good work.
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Checking in on day 77 alcohol free
Starting the process (continuing it really) of cutting back caffeine for my physical and mental health. I’m announcing it for accountability. I’m going back to work tomorrow after a lovely (mostly) week off. I’m dreading going back, which is probably normal. I’m trying not to get in my head about it. Next vacation will be in July, so i have that to look forward to. I’m glad to have stayed sober during my time off, so I could be present to the fullest extent to enjoy it. I hope everyone is having a peaceful day today.
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