60 Days: It does get easier!
April 18, 2010
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60 Days: It does get easier!
Hi everyone! Due to being very busy I have had less time to check in on this board lately, but I hope to come back more often soon.
Today I am sixty days sober. At the time I quit, it was highly unusual for me to be sober for one day.
60 Days ago, I came to this website terrified and hopeless. That first day, I started a journal and wrote myself this message on the first page: "It will get easier--eventually." I was terrified that it might not be true . . .
but guess what? It DID get easier.
I am writing on this board right now for those of you who are coming here and who are in the place I was two months ago--hanging by a thread, all torn up inside. Right now it seems impossible to quit drinking, but in sixty days, if you feel like I do, you'll wonder how it was possible you did all that drinking in the first place.
I'm not gonna lie: there are still challenges, and coping with my emotions is probably the most difficult thing right now, since I'm only now learning how to let things go in a natural way. But on a zillion levels my life has improved. I am much healthier--mentally, physically, and emotionally. You will be too.
I am so grateful to everyone here who has helped, especially in those first days when I felt incredibly unsteady. For me, it took a lot of courage to post here at first, but being met with such supportive comments changed everything. I truly believe I could not have done this without SR.
Also, in my first post, I mentioned that I was worried about what to drink at dinner time --and that in the past, efforts to stop had been foiled by that problem, because I believed I should have "good wine" (even though most of what I drank was cheap junk) to match a "good dinner"--and that a "good dinner" natually had a few cocktails before it. Now I no longer care about that -- like many people here, I have found I now prefer to keep things simpler -- but I do have one great recommendation for anyone out there looking for something unsweet & unique to drink at dinner time -- Iced Hibiscus Tea! (it's decaf, and may help reduce blood pressure!). I also had a grand time filling my empty wine rack (it's built in, unfortunately) with San Pelligrino bottles. Beautiful bottle, tasty fizzy water, and only about $1 per bottle if you buy in bulk!
Today I am sixty days sober. At the time I quit, it was highly unusual for me to be sober for one day.
60 Days ago, I came to this website terrified and hopeless. That first day, I started a journal and wrote myself this message on the first page: "It will get easier--eventually." I was terrified that it might not be true . . .
but guess what? It DID get easier.
I am writing on this board right now for those of you who are coming here and who are in the place I was two months ago--hanging by a thread, all torn up inside. Right now it seems impossible to quit drinking, but in sixty days, if you feel like I do, you'll wonder how it was possible you did all that drinking in the first place.
I'm not gonna lie: there are still challenges, and coping with my emotions is probably the most difficult thing right now, since I'm only now learning how to let things go in a natural way. But on a zillion levels my life has improved. I am much healthier--mentally, physically, and emotionally. You will be too.
I am so grateful to everyone here who has helped, especially in those first days when I felt incredibly unsteady. For me, it took a lot of courage to post here at first, but being met with such supportive comments changed everything. I truly believe I could not have done this without SR.
Also, in my first post, I mentioned that I was worried about what to drink at dinner time --and that in the past, efforts to stop had been foiled by that problem, because I believed I should have "good wine" (even though most of what I drank was cheap junk) to match a "good dinner"--and that a "good dinner" natually had a few cocktails before it. Now I no longer care about that -- like many people here, I have found I now prefer to keep things simpler -- but I do have one great recommendation for anyone out there looking for something unsweet & unique to drink at dinner time -- Iced Hibiscus Tea! (it's decaf, and may help reduce blood pressure!). I also had a grand time filling my empty wine rack (it's built in, unfortunately) with San Pelligrino bottles. Beautiful bottle, tasty fizzy water, and only about $1 per bottle if you buy in bulk!
..simply wonderful..congrats..Oz..
I also picked up a case last weekend... of San Pelligrino sparkling water that is 
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