Hey glad your back and stayed busy, HALT is for sure something I stay away from. That was one of the first things I learned from my sponsor.
For me I always struggled the most at 2 months, I dont know why but i think usually that I kept getting to well to fast. Meaning I just felt to good, and refused to use the tools I had and had be suggested. So I would say why not i can handle it blah blah blah, only to be detoxing after a week, like I had been drinking for years again.
Today I use those tools. Meetings when I feel urges if I can I go , then I totally let it pass, or phone, walks, the park, gym, garden, anything to just get me out of my own head.
The people around my sobriety pretty much all had said for some reason 30 days, 60,90 days -- 6 months and a year are the hardest times for us.
You did well, stay on the beam