Does anyone know where I can order a good custom coin? I want a simple coin that says one day at a time and then on the back the milestone. I plan to start buying one at a time with each milestone I hit starting on day 30 if I can reach it.
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You can make your own on Etsy.
More important than items is to do the work of becoming aware of what it is youâre running from, learning to bear your feelings and ultimately changing your life so you donât have to run anymore. Ofc that is ODAAT.
Stay safe and sober today.
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I donât get it. How can I stop running? The only way to stop running from coke is to destroy coke or ⌠my reason for taking it..? Destroy the coke haggins dealing it to me would mean to cut off all pathways they have to me. There are multiple reasons to take it but mostly because it feels good and escape from this awful world.
Youâre not doing the work, youâre white-knuckling it.
Pick three resources and exhaust them. Then pick the diff ones.
Resources for our recovery
Learn
Your #1 tip for sobriety (over 2 years sober)
Engage daily
Checking in daily to maintain focus #77
Get started. No one else can do this but you can. ODAAT.
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Join a Cocaine Anonymous meeting and attend regularly. The coins come with your sobriety progress as part of the program. Learning from others in the meetings is transformative when you put in the work, one day at a time.
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I donât want a coin with any holy scriptures because what if it falls out of my pocket when I am in the bathroom.
Then what?
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As long as you benefit from taking drugs you wonât stay sober. As @Faugxh said: Dig up and work what you escape from taking drugs, thatâs recovery work. Everything else is whiteknuckling, there are no shortcuts on the path of becoming sober and working recovery. Not using is not enough, itâs the start.
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Ya know what, those exact words came out of my mouth many many times to justify texting my dealer. He was good too, faster than uber eats, would bring drugs to my door within 20 mins. Thing is, Iâd take the drugs, Iâd drink the wine to âescapeâ the world, my problems, my worries, my trauma. But somehow whatever it was I wanted to escape would come back to bite me the moment I ran out of drugs. Then came the intense anxiety, the pain, the shame, the hospital visits. The real question is⌠are five minutes of feeling âgoodâ really worth the days/weeks of pain and suffering?
There was a thread on here I really liked the title of: Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. When you waste your money, energy and health on coke, youâre just snubbing out any flicker of light. The world will be as it is during your comedown, but your world will be worse, thatâs a guarantee.
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This is the one. I liked that thread too, itâs fun:
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if you go to ameeting they will let you know about the coins
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Amazon has lots of different options to customize coins. If a coin will help you stay sober then by all means get it.
You should cut ties with your dealer though, it will help you stay sober. If you desire a life of sobriety then you no longer need their information
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The problem is dealers are too easy to find. I was a dealer and know how it works. I burned all the bridges to the point I will get shot day or night if I go to certain towns. It is a me problem, I need to get stronger and deal with triggers.
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What do you think will help you become stronger?
For me- it was staying away from places and people and time. The more time I was away the easier it was to say no when in the presence of drugs or alcohol
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What do you mean by time?
Time not doing substances. Each minute, hour and day of not doing drugs helped me become stronger in my desire to stay sober and not give in to temptation
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When does that time thing start kicking in because I usually cry like a baby up to 10 days
Iâm sure it varies for each person and is dependent on the substance. I was a mess for at least a month when I quit weed. I had cravings for a few more months after that.
Alcohol took at least 6 months for me to not miss and that was after my final relapse.
Cigarettes took a year
Oddly, I think meth was the easiest one. (I was married to my dealer btw) I cut ties with every person and moved from where I was living and got a divorce. After about a week I felt ânormalâ but that was also the first substance I quit. I was still drinking and smoking at that time so it probably wasnât the normal I feel now.
Quitting any kind of substance is hard but it can be done. Lots of people here are testament to it.
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