Not sure why after all these years I downloaded this app and am trying to do this? But I made it through week one.
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I am realizing sometimes (more than Alot) I can be the creator of my own karma.. and truth be told Things Are Never What They Seem To Be.
Good God- Good Mourning and Morning to how far we have come, all that we have shed.. and with all / nothing Hello, Good Morning to you 12-step Recovery, Christian Recovery, SMART Recovery, NA and many more I pray I make it to work through.
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I suspect you’re doing this because you’re tired of doing things the other way…
Great decision! Really glad you’re here, friend. Stay the sober course & life becomes fuller, less mental anguish and smells and colors get sharp again. Then there’s the financial, health, relationships, legal pains (for some of us…) that ease, and the list goes on!
1 wk is outstanding, let’s keep rolling!
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Congrats on 1 week!
what is your DOC?
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Welcome and congrats on one week, that’s amazing to hear. Glad you’ve found TS, it’s a great community with a lot of support. Have you got any tools/plan in place for yourself?
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Welcome to the community! Glad you did download the app and take the steps towards your sobriety! Great work on your week 1 
Keep going strong 
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No real plans, I have been high functioning all these years, never drink during the day, have a good job, make good money, I have really been blessed. But since college, I would estimate 4-6 nights a week I drink until I pass out. Get up the next morning, fight through it, fell better by early evening and then drink again. Wanted to see what it would be like to break that cycle. I am sort of a workaholic and think I use alcohol to shut my brain off, because it is constantly working. I love that feeling of the second drink, when my mind just starts to slow down and not feel like it is racing…
I guess my plan would be to try to find something better for me to accomplish that same relief…not sure if that makes any sense…
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That makes total sense and well done on breaking the cycle. Maybe look at something to do in that time when you’d pick up, I find going to the gym extremely helpful for my mind and body but anything you can put in place is going to be beneficial for you. I’m not sure you’d find the same relief but it would 
be a better one for sure. Keeping moving forward and always reach out on here if you need to 
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Totally makes sense.
I also like @Cocojanie13 think that the gym or some kind of physical activity is a great way to shut down the brain and also release stress.
Wish you luck in finding something that works for you. 
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Congrats on the first week. Alot of us were functional drinkers until we were not. Good luck with the quit!
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I called myself a high functioning alcoholic until I could not deny that I had slipped to a barely functioning alcoholic. But I still had the same job, family, house, and even my own car, albeit without a driver’s license (revoked for life for DUIs, in sobriety I managed to get it restored). When I went back to AA, I heard “A functioning alcoholic? We call that a drunk.” That took me down a peg or two, for sure, but it did help me recognize that I had lost control over my own actions and outcomes, that I had surrendered it all to booze.
In AA, they talk about a higher power. Well, as much a rebel as I wanted to be, I could not deny that alcohol was my higher power. I would do anything to protect my drinking, and I would do whatever the booze told me to do. That helped shatter my denial. My first higher power was the courts and Department of Corrections - they had my best interest at heart, they told me what to do and when to do it, they punished me for non-compliance, and rewarded me for going along with the program. I was able to add to that the community of AA, who really did love me and had a solid plan I could follow to get better, to stop being a drunk and to become what I am today, a recovered alcoholic.
Blessings 
on your house as you begin your journey.,