Try to rest as much as you can and go into nature. It helps your body and mind to adjust and recover, alcohol and its metabolized degradation products take about 2 weeks to completely leave your system.
Sending you compassion and kindness 
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Way to go you win yesterday battle with demon alcohol. Keep going ! You got this! Just got make it to the pillow sober tonight. Keep it simple!
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Day 4 ! needed a little extra sleep this morning, luckily I have a grace period of when I can arrive to work. Making a coffee and getting ready for my day !! Thanks to all who have the heart to listen. 
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Winding down on day 4 sober and feeling pretty good. Still low energy and extremely irritated and somewhat sassy (others have said lol.) Happy tomorrow is Friday. I have plans in the evening to go to my friends for dinner with her family- that will help to not come home and do the usual cycle. Not really worried about tomorrow because I usually can make it through a week / weekend before the addiction brain starts speaking. Planning to come here and reach out before or when I have those thoughts.
Excited to wake up not hungover and fresh for another day.
Goodnight all!
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Congratulations on 4 days sober, great result! 
Do those plans include a plan for how to ensure you will not drink alcohol during dinner (or even before or after), even when others may?
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Thank you!
Her house is about 45 min away from mine and I am driving. Driving has always been the one thing to keep me sober. So most of the time I didn’t go anywhere. After I just plan to come home it will be late and I have to wake up early for work anyways. Is there any other suggestions for tools or plans to remain sober? I am looking to build my tool chest.
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That sounds like a good start of a plan, if you can 100% rely on you remaining sober because you are driving.
Chances are that you will be quite awake after arriving home, having been trying not to drink all evening and having just driven. My suggestion would be you check in here, have a hot shower followed by a cup of tea and then do some reading or whatever else helps your brain slow down. Everything to ensure you get to sleep easily instead of lying awake with all the risks that may pose.
Any alternative ideas from others?
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Yes! I’m happy for you! Enjoy your time with your friends. Come home take shower and go to bed early ( your body probably could use some extra rest). Keep it simple!
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Home and in bed. Had a good day today. Here’s to tomorrow !
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So happy for you that you hit the pillow sober, ODAAT!
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I recommend getting to AA meeting and go back and back and back…
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Let us know tomorrow morning: How wonderful is it to wake up in the morning without a headache or hangover discomfort? Do you feel the body energy starting growing? Previously you said you were successful already for a weekend or a week, this time aim to break the barrier of two weeks ok?
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Good morning from my side of the world. It is wonderful!! . The first thoughts as I opened my eyes was how much I love to wake up not hungover. I HATE being hungover. Physically my energy is growing for sure.
Something feels different this time. I am sort of diving into my thoughts and trying to defrost my feelings on things. Trying to find purpose outside of self sabotage. ONE day at a time.
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It makes me so nervous to go to an unknown place with unknown people. I know it’s needed I am trying to build the courage. I have always had anxiety about unknown situations.
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Thank you. Love the sweet sleeping birdy. 
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Just think of how nice it was to wake up this morning not freshly hangover. I do not know what your unknown thing you have going today. But maybe have an exit plan. The most important thing today is getting your head on your pillow sober tonight. You got this, one moment at a time.
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I understand that. But you have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. If nothing changes, then nothing changes. Connection is the opposite of addiction.
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Congrats on a week of sobriety. I’ve always said the first weekend is hard, but the second one is the hardest. In the first week you still have those shitty feelings that drinking brings as motivation to quit. By the second weekend your body is mostly recovered from that and you’re starting to feel better. So it’s so tempting to think that you can control it now because you’re feeling better and you’ve got several days of sobriety behind you. Just understand that’s a lie that your addicted brain is telling you. Just a heads up on that.
Also be patient with the process. It could be a while before you really start feeling like yourself again. I had about 4.5 months of sobriety earlier in the year and I was just starting to feel that “spark” of the person I was coming alive in me. After a few weeks you’ll feel worlds better, but in that first several months all those demons you were drowning with alcohol will want to creep back up. In time you’ll learn to sit with the pain and learn to let it wash over you and eventually you’ll see that it’s fleeting and will pass. Just hold on.
Congrats again. Good luck moving forward.
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