Happy New Year 2024!

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Happy New Year everyone :tada:
May this new year bring love and peace of mind to all of us.
I’m so grateful to be part of this wonderful community. :pray:
A cheerful sparkling water toast to a happy addiction free 2024 :star2::sparkles::star2:

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Wishing all community members lots of healthy and useful habits for 2024.

I’m currently at the end of the first week of another sobriety period. I’m in a good place and currently feeling i am independent of and don’t need to feed that goblin who tries to climb on my shoulders and control my life.

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Happy New Year guys :fireworks::confetti_ball::fireworks: May we all enjoy this upcoming year sober, healthy and happy

Feel better soon @Lisa07 :heart::heart:

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Bloody time zones… I’m not going to make it to midnight! :sweat_smile:

I am going celebrate an entirely sober year (2023), the absolute miracle of recovery, and the miracles we all are to have made it here.

Sweet sober dreams, friends. And then lets go make some of 'em come true in 2024!
Happy New Year to all.
:orange_heart:

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Love this!-“Focused on creation instead of consumption” Happy new years!

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Yes dont need that goblin! Congrats on the week! Happy new years!

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Thanks for the shout out @Alisa. It is much appreciated. Closing in on three years on the 3rd of January. Still reading every day, but not contributing a great deal these days.
Happy New Year to all. :blue_heart:

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Made it home! Thanks @Doreen1 for the help :blush: it was much needed as it was very foggy and visibility was about 30 feet!

Here’s some photos from work… Yeah, “work”.


Goofin’ with the crew


Tonight’s theme was Alice in Wonderland - we hired character actors - good times!


Event center all set up for dinner for 450 guests


One of the ice sculptures

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Welcome 2024!!! May this year bring you all much love and happiness!!

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Happy New Year dear sober folks!

I went to bed early with the cats like every year and slept for 11 hours straight :scream::rofl::grin: So I can say I start the new year well rested :blush:
Have a good year, a healthy and kind one :pray:

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Happy new year :confetti_ball: It was the first sober nye :tada:

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Happy new year!! Felt great to pop bottles of sparkling cider and doing cheers to the new year with my 10 year old tonight. Thankful to make it through another holiday sober. Want to say im proud of everyone else who did the same. Heres to a sober fun 2024!

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Thanks for your wishes and congrats :tada: that’s amazing and I feel you so hundred percent :pray:I relate absolutely with​:four_leaf_clover:best wishes for these year what so great began.

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On we go! 👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼:heart::people_hugging: Sending all the love and peace and hope you can handle, Y’all :hugs::purple_heart::green_heart::blue_heart::kissing_heart:

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Happy New Year everybody.

I stopped drinking at the beginning of November, its now the beginning of January and I have just got through my first sober holidays - possibly since I was a child.

I feel a little bit proud of myself, but I am not getting ahead of myself for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, I appreciate that its still early days and I still feel like I am recovering.

Secondly, I don’t want to feel proud of being sober. I feel like that should be the benchmark for normal, not something to be proud of… does that make sense? Am I being too hard on myself?

Anyway, I didn’t miss it or crave it one tiny bit. There were moments where I felt odd not drinking… like a muscle memory - like my body anticipated it. But, to be honest, I just played the tape forward in my head.

2 years ago, I drank too much - spilled red wine on the presents, crawled on my hands and knees upstairs and lay on the bedroom floor wishing I wouldn’t wake up.

This year I was present, played games, cooked dinner, socialised and had a good time.

Last night, I went to bed at 10.30pm and - like many of you - fell asleep cuddling my dog and listening to fireworks.

Here’s to a bright, happy and healthy 2024 for all of us. I am in no doubt that whatever challenges might lie ahead, the answers will never be found at the bottom of a bottle and that I am always better off facing them with the clarity and perspective and rationality that only sobriety brings.

Happy New Year All.

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2024 I promise everyone this is my year and will not take any drugs or alcohol ever again.

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Start with just today, do something to grow your sobriety and get a sober head on your pillow.

I’m glad you’re looking to be accountable.

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That is some truth right there! Glad you’re here and well done on the sober holidays. It’s a big deal, in my opinion, and worth celebrating, even if the baseline looks different for people like us.

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Happy New Year, all! Let’s do this!

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A sober Thanksgiving, a sober Christmas, a sober New Years Eve…moving next to Fat Tuesday and :love_letter:. Forever grateful.

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