Originally Posted by heartcore

Oh sweetheart, you just lost a very close friend. It is 100% appropriate to curl up in bed with your pup and cry and sleep.

You've been to two meetings within the last 2 days. Meetings are just one aspect of recovery. Caring for your body, allowing yourself time to feel things, accepting the need to grieve, nurturing the child that needs a cozy safe bedtime - those are all such important things.

Allow yourself to be your child tonight - take a bath, wear your jammies, cuddle the dog, read, spray lavender on your pillow - whatever means soft gentle comfort to you.

Sometimes the glare of the bad lights and the busyness of meetings are exactly what I LEAST need spiritually. We are sensitive beings, and sometimes that is an awful lot of jarring energies to be around.

My vote is tuck yourself in tonight, go to a meeting tomorrow. Learning to listen to our most true needs is the primary work of recovery, in my humble opinion.