Sober Selfies #13 (shirts required, please review rules)

A huge congratulation to you, stunning :heart_eyes: Lady :heart:
It’s amazing you reached three years :partying_face: Such nice milestone :slightly_smiling_face:

Don’t worry, everything doesn’t need to be perfect, pleasant and full of rainbows and happiness :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: We’re hearing about how to make life better and fulfilled with great moments so often, that one starts believe that if you feel down, angry, unsatisfied or any other emotion marked by society as negative, that it’s not ok and that we don’t work on ourselves hard enough.
Besides I discovered that it’s impossible to see and accept everything what’s going on with pink glasses. Sometimes I feel in the way I’d prefer not to but my strength is in taking it for what it is, rather than denying and pretending that I am 100% of time amazing.
If you expect from life to be perfect and take your responsibility for if it’s not, it’s huge amount of pressure. That can’t work for anyone.

So enjoy all the good in your life and inhal it with a deep breath and beside accept and let go everything other. Or deal with it with your best if you must :blush:
All the stuff happening to us are valuable lesson. What’s good is that we have choice in how we react to things :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Sending you all my Love!!! :heart::heart::heart::heart::heart:

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Beats any feeling this

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Congratulations on your three years and going forward! So happy for you with your sobriety and all your growth towards your happiness and sense of self. Sounds like you celebrated your anniversary in a good way and have a nice memento with the tattoo! Big congrats! Hugs.

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Thank you guys @Dazercat, @DryIn785 @Lisa07 @anon74766472 @Its_me_Stella @Fargesia @Alisa @Olivia @JasonFisher. I’m very happy to have such a marvellous bunch of ppl in my corner. If I knew you in real life I’d bake you all cakes and cookies and invite you for coffee and my dogs would howl and bark at you with joy and sternness while we all said hello. It’d be awesome.

thank you too dear @Jana1988 for your kind words and love sent! It means a lot. I’m thankfully not in the habit of expecting life to be perfect. what you say is very true: I’m working hard on accepting the parts that are ugly and hard with less judgement. Ironically by making more space for them, they become easier to bear. I’m never far from gratitude and am blessed to feel blessed rather a lot. Thanks for being on this journey with me! :heart::boar:

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CONGRATULATIONS!

Three years is no joke. That’s some hard work inside that milestone.
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Thanks @AyBee thats what I thought too, it’s a nice chunk of time.
Feels good to be seen like this. :slight_smile:
You’d likewise be coming to eat cakes at my house. It’d be a funny afternoon. Thanks for all the good times!

Also @Twizzlers thanks Amy girl! :sparkling_heart:
@Mephistopheles @Yoda-Stevie @Misokatsu @Runningfree @Planipennia @Tomek thanks guys - alllll to my house :cake::coffee:

@Yoda-Stevie I’ve always been rather afraid of the sea but I like mountains so I often think of when the weather unavoidably turns on a mountain and you just have to adjust how you go about things. Sometimes just wait. But the scary or painful parts belong just as much.

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134 days AF :green_heart:

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Huge congrats on three years, that’s awesome! Take care, friend!

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Congratulations :clap::tada: And looking lovely!

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Congratulations to 3 full years without DOC!

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I was feeling physically sad missing the black forest today. Like the calm and and joy MTB is giving me.

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Happy 3 years lovely!! I’m so happy for you :heart: Also I’ll take your virtual love 🫂:hugs:

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We all need a storm now and then, so we don’t forget how to really sail. Always calm seas make very weak sailors.

Hope this storm passes quickly.

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@Faugxh Nearly missed your Anny dear friend! A day late but no less meant and heartfelt. Thanks so much for sharing your journey and also sharing some of mine. Huge congrats. Much love. X

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Summer in the city. Still need groceries.

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I know where that Black Forest is :blush:
We could see it off in the distance from parts of our trip.

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Yeah, it’s like the Vosges. I like the Vosges as well. People are much friendlier towards cyclists there :slightly_smiling_face:

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Congratulations!

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Ok finally starting to like my face again after 4 months of pure hard work!

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