Just a short check in
I've been back to read from time to time, but I haven't posted much the last year. I have my year sober coming up this month and I'm grateful that I will be making it this far this time. The urge to drink has been lifted and it's a great feeling to be this free. Every urge became shorter and shorter and now thinking of drinking a glass of wine and really imagining it makes my stomach feel a bit queasy.
I can get out of situations and places with my grace and dignity intact.
I have also learned to embrace all my feelings, you feel...then the feeling passes whether it's good, bad, lonely, happy, sad, none of them are permanent so I don't have to drink to hide from them or celebrate them. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone :-).
Just wanted to share and, who knows, help someone.