# Day One, let’s get this started!
**URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289
**Category:** Your Story
**Tags:** check-in, alcohol
**Created:** [April 17, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289 "2025-04-17T03:33:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Selahkat](https://talkingsober.com/u/Selahkat)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/1 "2025-04-17T03:33:03Z")
Started my morning by drinking two bottles of wine just for the hell of it. I’m done. I’m 23 and I hate the woman I’ve become, I have ruined relationships and am going to do more if I don’t stop now. I just want to feel better.
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### Author:  [@Dazercat](https://talkingsober.com/u/Dazercat)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/2 "2025-04-17T04:24:50Z")
> [@Welcome to Talking Sober (TS)! 2025 Update!](https://talkingsober.com/t/welcome-to-talking-sober-ts-2025-update/176024):
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> Hello wave and welcome hugs With more than 50,000 topics, 1.8 million posts and 40,000+ members, it can be hard to know where to start. This topic has been put together to help you with that. We are people from all over the world who are working out how to do life sober - from alcohol, other drugs, sex and love addictions, self harm and much more . . . we all have different stories and are at different places in our journey, but we are all here today and that’s what matters! Rules and Gui…
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### Author:  [@Pandita](https://talkingsober.com/u/Pandita)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/3 "2025-04-17T04:55:03Z")
Hi there Kat, nice to meet you and welcome to this great place. There’s lots of people who can help with your plan and threads full of wisdom on how to get there. Hope to see you around.
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### Author:  [@erntedank](https://talkingsober.com/u/erntedank)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/4 "2025-04-17T05:00:37Z")
welcome 🌻
have a good read around, lotsa good stuff for recovery.
keep us posted HERE on your thread how you are doing, join the daily gratitude thread and the check in thread. make a plan! recovery needs plan & daily work, quit lit, inform yoursekf, learn about your addiction, seek help, go to meetings online and IRL. ODAAT
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### Author:  [@Lezourez](https://talkingsober.com/u/Lezourez)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/5 "2025-04-17T06:27:01Z")
Welcome to the Forum Kat 😀.
There’s an enormous amount of information, support, recovery and fun on the app.
However, it’s not the whole package of recovery. You need to have a program to work, be it AA or another flavour of program.
But, nothing beats a F2F meeting.
By going you will find sober friends.
You will also build a local sober support support. Which is essential to long term sobriety.
When you want help it’s usually NOW, you don’t want to wait for someone in a different TZ to reply to you, it maybe to late by then.
So, bottom line is get yourself a Program of Recovery, a Sponsor and go to a meeting.
Oh, and of course keep jumping into the app and read, read, read.
Take care, all the very best.
😇&😈
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### Author:  [@Ray\_M\_C\_Laren](https://talkingsober.com/u/Ray_M_C_Laren)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/6 "2025-04-17T09:59:11Z")
Maybe try ameeting might help ,helped me stay sober wish you well
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### Author:  [@Matt](https://talkingsober.com/u/Matt)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/7 "2025-04-17T10:42:00Z")
Welcome Kat, it sounds like you know the change you want, and you see the value (you’re beginning to see that the struggle for sobriety is much better than the suffering of addiction). That’s a good space to start from.
For me I found meetings made a big difference. Quit lit and sober stories helped too - they helped me understand myself: [Resources for our recovery](https://talkingsober.com/t/resources-for-our-recovery/52812)
Welcome to Talking Sober!
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### Author:  [@Noshame](https://talkingsober.com/u/Noshame)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/8 "2025-04-17T12:27:23Z")
Welcome and good job on starting your sober journey
Even when it gets boring, every second you don’t pick up the bottle is a victory
2 bottles of wine is a lot. Get some rest and definitely read around
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### Author:  [@OHsusieQ](https://talkingsober.com/u/OHsusieQ)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/9 "2026-03-04T13:24:52Z")
I’ve been here just a little over a week, and this place has already done so much for me. Read A LOT! There is so much to read here, to keep your mind filled with how good sobriety will feel in the long run. Congratulations on making the decision to quit!
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### Author:  [@Astro\_life](https://talkingsober.com/u/Astro_life)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/day-one-let-s-get-this-started/194289/10 "2026-04-06T03:07:00Z")
Nice to meet you! Remeber recovery is never a straight path but it is so rewarding. Rooting for you!