I’m on day 10. That feels like a very little win, but a win nonetheless. It’s been a long time since I went without drinking altogether and last time it was 8 months in 2020.
Sometimes it’s hard to celebrate a victory so small because there’s still so much room for error, but in that same vein, there’s so much room for growth. I don’t feel like I’ve done something worth making a big deal about, but I know that were it someone else in my situation, I would celebrate them today.
I think it’s an important lesson, that we not judge ourselves more harshly than we would a friend.
What I realize is how fast those days went by. I think about the show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which I didn’t really enjoy, but she said, “you can do anything for ten seconds, so do it and count to ten, and then count to ten again.” That feels very relevant today.
Double digits is a big deal in my book. I think we spend so long thinking we aren’t worthy, we kind of get stuck in a mindset of not feeling comfortable celebrating ourselves…especially when we downplay our accomplishments. Take the little wins, the big wins, all the wins. We all deserve to be proud of our accomplishments. Hell, sometimes just getting out of bed is big deal when I am really down. So I say congratulations to you!!!
10 days IS a big victory in my book too! Double digits is a big deal and is absolutely worth celebrating. You are DOING this thing! Putting down that drink and choosing life every day for 10 days is absolutely a win. Celebrate away my love! You deserve it.
Personally I loved the ten day milestone. Double digits and I read somewhere that alcohol can remain in the body for up to 10 days, so once you hit that milestone your body is free of the poison and your recovery is all you. Congratulations
10 is huge!
No such thing as a little win in sobriety. In fact, if you keep celebrating each sober day, this could be the last day 10 of your life. Stay the course and well done!
I agree 10 days is a milestone worth acknowledging. Congratulations.
10 days is heaps to someone still stuck in that cycle of relapse.
Its a milestone that represents countless times during those 10 days that you had to actively choose sobriety.
Im fairly early in my collection of milestones but one thing I reflect on at every stage is being grateful to have made it, not everyone who tries to quit makes it, and unfortunately the longer you stay sober collecting days the less people have made it that far
Congratulations, it is a big deal.
In fact every day clean and sober is a big deal, cause His knows it ain’t easy.
By now I’ve done a few rounds sober on here. And I stopped doing drugs years ago.
But that doesn’t mean that I still don’t wake up in the morning and thinking about doing it again.
Life is never without challenges and trying to handle those without something thats been there getting you trough it for years is hard.
And that’s why everyday is worth celebrating.
Everyday you choose not to use your DOC is a win.
Wishing you the best of luck on your sober journey.
I really appreciate this comment. I think it’s important not to compare ourselves to others in our healing, but equally, it’s important to recognize how far we have come when so many others haven’t made it as far as we have. That’s really huge and a good reminder.
