Wanted to introduce myself

[LeeHawk]

Welcome to TS, Scott. Great community here. Glad you joined. Two weeks is bad a$$!

[scottinpa]

Thank you!

[Jasty2]

Hey welcome to the community. Really good people on here helping each other out. Congrats on your 2 weeks. I know they’re tough.

[Its_me_Stella]

Congrats on your 2 weeks and welcome to the forum!!!

Here is a great link to help you navigate around a bit.

Welcome to the forum! 2022

[scottinpa]

Thanks for the link! Helps alot

[Its_me_Stella]

You’re welcome.

[Nordique]

Welcome to the community and congrats on 2 weeks!

[Linda79]

Welcome. Fantastic effort! Keep coming back. I’d be lost without this forum!!! Best community ever!

[scottinpa]

Thank you all! Yes this forum has helped me so much! This is my millionth time “quitting” but this time seems different and reading everybody’s experiences are a huge help!

[LAB]

Welcome! This is a great place to check in when the urge hits. I’m just over 9 months free of booze and this community has been key for that. Reading of other people’s triumphs and troubles keeps me inspired and grounded in the work.

Congratulations on the first two weeks. I hope you are finding your way to new habits and ways to take care of yourself. You deserve to be happy and healthy and safe.

Keep up the good work and participate here as often as you can!

[scottinpa]

9 months! That’s awesome and I’m getting there one day at a time! I plan on being on here more often cause I know tough days are ahead. This forum has already helped me so much these past 2 weeks

[SinceIAwoke]

Welcome Scott! I came to TS after years of sobriety and the community experience has enhanced my sobriety with all the different perspectives and struggles. And when COVID hit, I was able to lean in hard here and replace some of my AA face to face support.

Here’s a couple of great threads full of ideas on how people here have gotten and stayed sober.

2 years sober and what helped me to get there:

2 days ago I celebrated my 2 years sober again. Again, because years ago I had a long stretch of sober days too but relapsed after 5 years. My doc is alcohol. I started to drink when I was 16 year or so and it increased in my student days. I noticed I had a problem around the aged of 30 I guess. Tried to quit multiple times but couldn’t get more then 30 days sober Decided to give myself an ultimatum: 1 year. 1 year to get sober myself otherwise I would go to see my doctor and ask fo…

Resources for our recovery

There are so many helpful resources available to us on our sober journeys. I wanted to share this list for those who are interested in non traditional resources. Please note: I created this with alcohol recovery in mind and it is U.S. based as well. As a straight white past middle age woman, it is based on what resonated and helped me in my journey. Over time, I have added in resources for some other addictions (found at the end of this post), but it is heavy with resources for alcohol recovery…

[JackStraw]

Good job!! Glad you’re here.

[scottinpa]

Thank you for the links and I agree this forum is a great help! When I’m getting urges I come on here and read. Really helps bring some calm to me and I read until I feel those urges dissipate. Thank you!

[scottinpa]

Thank you and I’m sticking around here this time!

[Twizzlers]

Welcome 2 weeks is brilliant

[scottinpa]

Thank you!

[Gonefishin]

Congrats Scott and welcome to the team amigo!

[Earlcornbread]

Way to go, Scott!. Today is day one for me and it helps reading your post.
All the best!
Earl

[scottinpa]

Congrats on day one!! The posts on here help me alot and I’m glad mine provided some for you! Being sober is worth everything!!