3 Weeks sober
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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3 Weeks sober
Hello all!
This is my third week sober! The weekends are the hardest time for me as I am out of my routine durring the week. I am trying to find something to occupy my weekends or I am going to crack. Anyone have any suggestions? I have been using the internet as my crutch, but not sure how long this will last. I am fearful that i will become addicted to sleeping pills and dont want to trade one addiction for the next. I currently pop a pill when i feel im going to have a tough time. My fear is that i am only 3 weeks in and have a life time to go. I am really trying stick with quitting. I have made promises to very important people in my life. I want to make this my year for success!! I hope to find the strength through you all by sharing my experiences and reading yours!
2k9 is 2kmine!
This is my third week sober! The weekends are the hardest time for me as I am out of my routine durring the week. I am trying to find something to occupy my weekends or I am going to crack. Anyone have any suggestions? I have been using the internet as my crutch, but not sure how long this will last. I am fearful that i will become addicted to sleeping pills and dont want to trade one addiction for the next. I currently pop a pill when i feel im going to have a tough time. My fear is that i am only 3 weeks in and have a life time to go. I am really trying stick with quitting. I have made promises to very important people in my life. I want to make this my year for success!! I hope to find the strength through you all by sharing my experiences and reading yours!
2k9 is 2kmine!
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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Welcome Rebirth. I am around 3 weeks also and have been leaning on the good folks at SR here for my recovery so far but I know I am going to have to rejoin the real world. Everyone is contributing to a list of things to do and it is a sticky at the top of this section. You may want to read it and see if it gives you some ideas.
I have also made promises to people in my life and want this to be the time too.
I hope this forum can help you as much as it has helped me keep on the straight road.
I have also made promises to people in my life and want this to be the time too.
I hope this forum can help you as much as it has helped me keep on the straight road.
Forward we go...side by side-Rest In Peace
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Serene In Dixie
Posts: 36,740
Glad you are making progress...
Welcome to our recovery community
I find my AA committment immensley rewarding.
I'll be at a noon meeting tomorrow
for support and understanding.
I found simply not drinking was not enough
for me to experience the joy of recovery.
Welcome to our recovery community
I find my AA committment immensley rewarding.
I'll be at a noon meeting tomorrow
for support and understanding.
I found simply not drinking was not enough
for me to experience the joy of recovery.
It's time to change!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: lake tahoe
Posts: 1,025
Hey Rebirth.... Glad you are here!
I feel ya with "what to do with all this time on my hands and not drink"??? We just don't know automatically do we?! Before getting sober, it was never a question or a thought -- We'd just drink or drug and do what comes with it!
For me personally, I've been going to AA, seeing normie and sober friends again, watching a little tube, exercising and getting out with my pooch, taking a drive and just keeping it pretty simple! Trying to get into the things I once liked to do.... I'm still figuring all that out cuz it's been awhile! I'm an outdoorsy kind of gal but it's winter and really winter here in Tahoe so I'm a little limited unless I hit the slopes with my board... not gonna do that until next month when I'm alot physically stronger.
We all gotta find what works for us... It's naturally going to feel weird and a little funky trying to do life now that we're sober. That means we got to make decisions of simply what we want to do--- oh, geez!!! I think I'll stick to one decision at a time: Don't drink, Nicki, no matter what!
I don't know if any of this helped or made any sense but if it did, right on!
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I feel ya with "what to do with all this time on my hands and not drink"??? We just don't know automatically do we?! Before getting sober, it was never a question or a thought -- We'd just drink or drug and do what comes with it!
For me personally, I've been going to AA, seeing normie and sober friends again, watching a little tube, exercising and getting out with my pooch, taking a drive and just keeping it pretty simple! Trying to get into the things I once liked to do.... I'm still figuring all that out cuz it's been awhile! I'm an outdoorsy kind of gal but it's winter and really winter here in Tahoe so I'm a little limited unless I hit the slopes with my board... not gonna do that until next month when I'm alot physically stronger.
We all gotta find what works for us... It's naturally going to feel weird and a little funky trying to do life now that we're sober. That means we got to make decisions of simply what we want to do--- oh, geez!!! I think I'll stick to one decision at a time: Don't drink, Nicki, no matter what!
I don't know if any of this helped or made any sense but if it did, right on!
:ghug
:wtf2ghug3:ghug2
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