My mood is raising each day without alcohol! Sometimes I watched myself while drinking and by every glas of wine my mood was getting down and sometimes I became afraid of the future, the work, of even little things of the day. Now after 2 weeks I wake up in a good mood, everything seems to be easier.
There is also a change to my last year of being here. Last year I have been in a higher tension of being sober. Now I just enjoy each day, meanwhile even my beautiful sober evenings and Sunday mornings alone. I am really looking forward to it, don’t miss alcohol, instead I feel pretty relieved.
Once in a while I have cravings, they come every time unexpected and suddenly, but it’s ok. I tell myself, it will pass. It’s a little bit like the labor pains, when I got my babies: the craving comes in waves, but it will disappear again and at the end something wonderful is waiting for me… 
love to all of you!
Drained.
So mentally exhausted and overwhelmed and frustrated and just wanting to run away …to a quiet place where I don’t have to “do” anything and I can just BE
I want my mind to switch off. I want less pressure. I want inner-peace and calm. I feel anxious. I feel sad. I feel tired. And I feel there is nothing I can do about any of it. I have a huge uni assessment I must do and it’s draining all of my energy and seriously lowering my vibration. I want a cuddle. I just want to do whatever the fuck I want to do, with out any consequences or guilt or regret. That’s not gonna happen though.
I once felt exactly the way you’re feeling now, irritable, restless and discontent. I attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and it changed my life for the better beyond my wildest imagination.
Time for some big book thumping… 
AA Big Book page 417
“Acceptance Was The Answer.”
When I stop living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away. From that moment on, I have not had a single compulsion to drink.
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I’m disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation— some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.
I hope this helps you with better days ahead my friend. 
Sad, today has been a bad day
Thanks Ed. I really appreciate the time you took to reply, thank you for being so generous and kind 
These words really resonated. Going to change my perspective, live in the answer. Today is going to be a good day 
Overworked. That has been always a good reason to open the wine. Not today. I will thank myself tomorrow. Today I just try to survive till my next shift.
Sorry, I didn’t see this until now but I couldn’t stop crying and my parents keep fighting and I just dont feel happy anymore
I’m very sorry, is there a possibility to go out of the house?
Yeah, I could try that
Pissed. So over adults acting like kids playing games… some people really just need to grow up. 
and while I’m at it… if you don’t wanna be called out on being shitty maybe try stop doing shitty things…
End rant. 
Pumped 
.
READY
Ready to fight and ready for victory 
Settled:yellow_heart:
Happier, better
Acheived .
Lonely…
Disappointed. (Not in sobriety, I’m doing good there) I seem to have replace alcohol with food. Having a hard time fighting the weight gain
We often kind of swing into other ways of self-soothing. I do the same thing with sweets. (A whole pack of Oreos? Sure.) I don’t have any magic answer for it, but I’ve found communicating about my uncertain feelings, exploring them helps. Also I’ve noticed a pattern where my impulse to eat sweets is in response to me overwhelming myself with long weekly to do lists, each day getting to the end of the day and feeling like I’m not as good as I should be. Then I binge on sweets; it kind of enters my mind. And just like my addiction it’s something I do alone.
I think we have to be kind with ourselves about this. It really is ok as long as we’re sober. Over the longer term I think digging deeper into it can help - like what is it that makes me feel so inadequate / etc about myself - but that takes time. Meetings are helping me to understand myself better; I also do therapy once a month.
Be kind and forgiving to yourself. You’re a good person who’s doing one of the single hardest things a person can do: getting to their core self concept, and changing their life patterns. Recovery is labour. Labour is hard. It’s 100% worth it, but it’s hard. You can cut yourself some slack here. And anyone who doesn’t support you in that is probably not the kind of energy you want to have in your life right now 
Take care love and stick with it 
Full of good energy