Hi all I first joined this community several years ago and found incredible support here for my own sobriety from alcohol and nicotine. Today I redownloaded the app.
I have had ups and downs since I last logged on (years ago). Months of sober streaks followed by months of a whole lot of drunken messiness. This past 6 months I’ve been drinking a lot. I want to stop. I have a 16 month old son now and he is amazing. His dad is in jail so I’ve been using that (and many other things of course) as an excuse to drink at night after I put my boy to sleep. I often wake up hungover and exhausted. It’s unacceptable. What I really need to do is stop endangering my child and myself, put us and our future first and figure out how I’m gonna provide for me and my absolutely amazing and beautiful son. I need to - and I’m ready to - be sober again.
Alcohol has cost me close friends, freedom, time, health, money, and self-respect. It has terrified my family and has just been generally very depressing and anxiety-making for about a decade. It has 100% held me back from living to my fullest. At this point I’m very tired - extremely tired of the mistreatment I’ve been committing for so long. But deep in my heart I am genuinely excited. Because I know how much better my life is going to get when I pledge myself to this change. Thanks for being here you guys
I got so much to be grateful for when I’m sober. Especially my granddaughter at 14 months. And my grandson at 8 months. It sounds like you got a lot to be grateful for with that beautiful son of yours.
3 years and 8 + months later and I’m still over on that gratitude thread every morning to start my day. Still my strongest tool in recovery.
@Dazercat i remember you man! thank you so much oh wow!! thank you thank you thank you i am SO GLAD i redownloaded this app. this place is incredible. thanks for sharing your gratitude too.
today i am grateful for committing myself to sobriety. i am grateful for the excitement I feel knowing I am stepping into the best chapter of my life. i am grateful for this community, for my sweet son napping peacefully, for the late summer rains falling on the forest and river outside. life is so beautiful.
Welcome back. You’ve got some incredible support here if you need it. We all have different degrees of struggles with being sober but our goals are all the same, a happy, healthy and sober life.
You sound motivated and like you have been thinking about sobriety for a while now. Keep coming back here and maybe try a few meetings, online or in person.
thank you @Gorden@lorelai and @DylanL thanks so so much i really appreciate your words of support and encouragement!! i’m so happy to be doing this and i feel very confident and solid about this devotion to sobriety.
OH I love this and am so grateful for your Pledge to yourself. You do have the strength to live a addiction free life! You will reap so much from living a AF life and your son will know only the sober you!
The time is now to take control of your life and stop letting this addiction take any more from you. You deserve to be happy and healthy.
We are unable to do this alone. Grateful to have you back here with us. I do hope you are able to find some real life support as well - Meetings/ therapy / sponsor?
Keep showing up for yourself Julia - Its ODAAT and we got your back!
Welcome to day 1 George- its a hard road but you can overcome the addiction! Keep actively showing up for yourself in whatever ways you can - do not let yourself sit with the urges. Fight for your addiction free life. Stay strong
I first joined this community several years ago and found incredible support here for my own sobriety from alcohol and nicotine. Today I redownloaded the app.
