Five months ago today...
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Five months ago today...
I looked at a recently spent 1.75 liter bottle of wine and decided that enough was enough. Equipped with the new knowledge I'd found in Jack Trimpey's book Rational Recovery, I embarked on a journey of living in the NOW, clean and sober.
Five GREAT months later I can honestly say that it was the right decision. This sobriety thing really does keep getting better and better!
Five GREAT months later I can honestly say that it was the right decision. This sobriety thing really does keep getting better and better!
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That's a darn big bottle of wine!
Congrats on the five months.
I am not familiar with the book but it sounds like it is based on the study of Ontology. Or the study of being, which basically says you can control yourself right at the present moment in time.
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Congrats on the five months.
I am not familiar with the book but it sounds like it is based on the study of Ontology. Or the study of being, which basically says you can control yourself right at the present moment in time.
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Originally Posted by MrsKing 
I totally agree! I'm five months sober in a week and am feeling all that you're feeling... it definitely does just get better and better. Congratulations! 
I have read here and elsewhere that it takes about six months for the brain to "rebuild" itself and correct the damage done by chronic alcoholism. So, in theory, MrsKing, things should really start to get interesting for us in the coming months. Good job on your sober time, look forward to hearing more positive results in the future.
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Originally Posted by F355
I looked at a recently spent 1.75 liter bottle of wine and decided that enough was enough. Equipped with the new knowledge I'd found in Jack Trimpey's book Rational Recovery, I embarked on a journey of living in the NOW, clean and sober.
Five GREAT months later I can honestly say that it was the right decision. This sobriety thing really does keep getting better and better!
Five GREAT months later I can honestly say that it was the right decision. This sobriety thing really does keep getting better and better!
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Five months is a huge acomplishment! I know that cuz I have 113 days today. Quit pain pills after 20 years of torture. Hopin I get it right this time. I still have bad days, but the good days are beginning to add up.
I am trying to learn how to live in the now as well. Been reading a book along those lines by Michael Singer called The Unteathered Soul. You may want to give it a try.
I wish you all the best!
I am trying to learn how to live in the now as well. Been reading a book along those lines by Michael Singer called The Unteathered Soul. You may want to give it a try.
I wish you all the best!
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Originally Posted by lovetosail
Five months is a huge acomplishment! I know that cuz I have 113 days today. Quit pain pills after 20 years of torture. Hopin I get it right this time. I still have bad days, but the good days are beginning to add up.
I am trying to learn how to live in the now as well. Been reading a book along those lines by Michael Singer called The Unteathered Soul. You may want to give it a try.
I wish you all the best!
I am trying to learn how to live in the now as well. Been reading a book along those lines by Michael Singer called The Unteathered Soul. You may want to give it a try.
I wish you all the best!
If there's one thing I've learned... it's hardest in the early weeks/months, but you just HAVE to keep chipping away at it, and not give up! We sometimes forget this as we struggle in early recovery, but it is our brain that needs the most time to heal and only when it really starts to heal do we really start to get a handle on our sobriety.
Congrats on 113, and may your days continue and continue to get better and fuller! and thanks for the book reco, I'll look into that....
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F355, congratulations on your achievement, five months sober is fabulous. I am sober with AVRT, too. I like your statement about living in the now. I was being counselled for anxiety and depression, and mindfulness was the primary tool I learned then. I learned that Jon Kabat-Zinn had written about mindfulness, and Eckhart Tolle with his books The Power of Now and The New Earth. They are dopey titles, but I really enjoyed the books. Very enlightening for me.
That same moment arrived for me, too, when I decided that the drinking was going to stop. I naturally fell into using mindfulness and being in the present moment when I was learning about how to deal with urges and cravings. When I learned that I had been doing AVRT from the beginning, I found it interesting that my vow to 'never drink in the present moment' was actually part of AVRT.
Thanks for sharing your experience, F355, you just might have inspired a few dozen others to put the bottle down for good too. Well done.
That same moment arrived for me, too, when I decided that the drinking was going to stop. I naturally fell into using mindfulness and being in the present moment when I was learning about how to deal with urges and cravings. When I learned that I had been doing AVRT from the beginning, I found it interesting that my vow to 'never drink in the present moment' was actually part of AVRT.
Thanks for sharing your experience, F355, you just might have inspired a few dozen others to put the bottle down for good too. Well done.
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