Six months today
Hello again everyone.
Today I looked at my sobriety clock and got my 6 month e-chip.
6 months of less anxiety and depression.
6 months of waking up and looking forward to the day rather than panicking about what might have happened from fragments of the night before.
The heart palpitations, nose bleeds, spotty & dry skin have cleared up, the bloated pasty face gone. A few pounds too, although the ice cream is still keeping me in hibernating chunk!
I work with people with alcohol related brain damage now. Working with them has made it so much easier to quit. I want to be stable for the people I work with in their recovery. It would not be fair to turn up hungover, sweating alcohol when they too are fighting a daily battle. They have given me the strength and drive to improve. And shown me how destructive alcohol really is. I was drinking at higher levels than some of the people there, so I know one day where I could be. Im also joining a volunteer programme for communities affected by alcohol, concentrating on others has helped so much more than when I constantly blamed myself for being weak.
One day at a time, life gets better!