I’m Kristi and I’m a new user and this is my first time actually working the program. I’m 110 days clean today and honestly it’s been a learning process. I’m 32 and I’ve spent 20 years in addiction so I don’t really remember a time of sobriety. I’m thankful for another day of life and of sobriety, I’m thankful for my program, my house mom, my sober family, my daughter, and my super supportive grandparents, who have stuck by me through it all. We all need to be thankful for another day of life.
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Welcome Kristi, congratulations on your 110 days!! I know what you mean about not knowing a sober time, I was the same…from childhood straight into using alcohol and drugs. It is a learning process for sure, especially getting used to actually experiencing our feelings and emotions without using at them. Work in progress for sure, right now I am tackling being okay with anxious and uncomfortable feelings…and being okay with comfort eating at my feelings. Like I said, work in progress.
Also grateful to have this day. There was a Remembrance walk here last night for those lost to addiction and mental health struggles and it reminded me that today is the only day I have and I am grateful for that.
Glad you are here Kristi and working on your healthy healing you.
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Welcome Kristi! Glad ur here. I can relate to ur post. I spent decades in addiction as well. Most of my life i had spent using drugs or drinking to cope with how i felt. Recovery is very much about learning who we are again 
i hope u find this forum as useful to your recovery, as it has been for me and my recovery.
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