First Post - I need support - Day 1
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First Post - I need support - Day 1
Hello to all! I have been lurking for about a month or so - all the while reading about addiction etc... I have even put together a couple of sober weeks during that time.
It's finally time to declare a Day 1 and start making myself accountable. I want more than anything to be sober. The couple of weeks where I was were amazing. I'm working on a plan and "filling my toolbox", but for now I think this will be my main support.
You are all so welcoming and I truly appreciate all the posts I've read - so much great advice! This is the first time I've admitted having a problem with booze (except talking about it with my husband - and I don't think he really understands where I'm at right now). Just being able to say something makes me feel better and gives me hope.
I'm so tired of thinking about "should I drink?", "should I moderate?", "do I really have a problem?"..... Yes Houston, I have a problem - nothing being sober can't cure
Thanks for listening. I hope everyone has a great, sober Monday!
It's finally time to declare a Day 1 and start making myself accountable. I want more than anything to be sober. The couple of weeks where I was were amazing. I'm working on a plan and "filling my toolbox", but for now I think this will be my main support.
You are all so welcoming and I truly appreciate all the posts I've read - so much great advice! This is the first time I've admitted having a problem with booze (except talking about it with my husband - and I don't think he really understands where I'm at right now). Just being able to say something makes me feel better and gives me hope.
I'm so tired of thinking about "should I drink?", "should I moderate?", "do I really have a problem?"..... Yes Houston, I have a problem - nothing being sober can't cure
Thanks for listening. I hope everyone has a great, sober Monday!
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Welcome! I felt such relief when I finally surrendered and admitted I had a problem! My husband doesn't quite get it either. All I know is I'm a better mom, wife, person when I'm sober and I intend to stay sober one day at a time. SR is a great place for you to be! Keep reading and posting and be true to yourself! Best wishes!
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quitting is easy, it's the facing life I find tricky. I had to strengthen some very atrophied "muscles" in order to meet life on it's own terms, and there are days I ache mightily and want to reach for those old "pain killers". But now I know that they kill way more than pain.
This is not a discouraging post, it is just to let you know, and to remind myself that day one isn't the hard one. And when day 496 comes along and I am out of good ideas...I realize that I am not alone, that many many of my compadres in recovery have made it through their day 496 sober too. That no matter what comes along, recovery is there to help me along.
Congrats on day one. We are going to do this thing
This is not a discouraging post, it is just to let you know, and to remind myself that day one isn't the hard one. And when day 496 comes along and I am out of good ideas...I realize that I am not alone, that many many of my compadres in recovery have made it through their day 496 sober too. That no matter what comes along, recovery is there to help me along.
Congrats on day one. We are going to do this thing
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Thank You!
Thank you all for such a nice welcome. I have felt so good today and am headed to bed with a clear-thinking, sober brain. Today felt 'different' so I'm more hopeful than I have been.
Felt like a much better mom today! So important! Work was good, too. Hopefully, I'll be able to sleep - that has been 'hit or miss' lately (as expected from what I've read). I'm learning to just get up and do something I like to do if sleep doesn't come easy. Doesn't seem as frustrating.
I wish you all a good night! Best wishes and prayers to all those who are struggling this evening.
Felt like a much better mom today! So important! Work was good, too. Hopefully, I'll be able to sleep - that has been 'hit or miss' lately (as expected from what I've read). I'm learning to just get up and do something I like to do if sleep doesn't come easy. Doesn't seem as frustrating.
I wish you all a good night! Best wishes and prayers to all those who are struggling this evening.
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"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
"The most successful people in the end are those whose success is the result of steady growh... It is the person who carefully advances step by step, with their mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what they knows to be practical, and concentrating their thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."
never have truer words been spoken, how is everyone keeping? i hope all are doing great..
Sometimes you must keep going.
Life punches you in the stomach.
It knocks your breath out and leaves you bowed and gasping.
You lose a job. . . you must keep going.
... You find out you have a serious illness. . .you must keep going.
You have a headache. . . you must keep going.
Sometimes the things in life are not serious but they affect you
nevertheless. . . you must keep going.
You have a big argument with your spouse.
Neither of you feels like talking and maybe not even looking at
each other. . . you must keep going.
Your son/Daughter rebels and you have a blowout with him. . .
you must keep going.
The bills seem to never end and the money seems to never start.
You must keep going.
There are times that make us just want to curl up, stick our
heads in a hole, and make the world go away.
We can't, because we must keep going.
Life is full of those circumstances.
Many of you when you woke up this morning, for a variety of
reasons, didn't feel like getting out of bed, but you had to.
You must keep going.
In times like those, and we all have them,
remember the blessing.
The blessing is not in that we must keep going.
The blessing is that we can.
"The most successful people in the end are those whose success is the result of steady growh... It is the person who carefully advances step by step, with their mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what they knows to be practical, and concentrating their thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."
never have truer words been spoken, how is everyone keeping? i hope all are doing great..
Sometimes you must keep going.
Life punches you in the stomach.
It knocks your breath out and leaves you bowed and gasping.
You lose a job. . . you must keep going.
... You find out you have a serious illness. . .you must keep going.
You have a headache. . . you must keep going.
Sometimes the things in life are not serious but they affect you
nevertheless. . . you must keep going.
You have a big argument with your spouse.
Neither of you feels like talking and maybe not even looking at
each other. . . you must keep going.
Your son/Daughter rebels and you have a blowout with him. . .
you must keep going.
The bills seem to never end and the money seems to never start.
You must keep going.
There are times that make us just want to curl up, stick our
heads in a hole, and make the world go away.
We can't, because we must keep going.
Life is full of those circumstances.
Many of you when you woke up this morning, for a variety of
reasons, didn't feel like getting out of bed, but you had to.
You must keep going.
In times like those, and we all have them,
remember the blessing.
The blessing is not in that we must keep going.
The blessing is that we can.
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Welcome welcome welcome!!!!! I loved the quote below because this is my struggle now:
I hope that you find a ton of support here as so many have. I haven't been around as much lately but I am still here and I've gotten through some interesting situations sober. And these situations were real life challenges. I am going to post but I have to say the quote above was very timely!
quitting is easy, it's the facing life I find tricky. I had to strengthen some very atrophied "muscles" in order to meet life on it's own terms, and there are days I ache mightily and want to reach for those old "pain killers". But now I know that they kill way more than pain.
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 112
Welcome, this resource is amazing. I hope you find what you are looking for. I like the thread already, as I believe that day 1 is hard, and for me day 225 (today) is very challenging as well. Everyday brings about new things and challenges that are amazing to tackle sober, so fill your toolbox, but don't let the tools get rusty!
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Originally Posted by ProfessorFudger 
The blessing is not in that we must keep going.
The blessing is that we can.
The blessing is that we can.
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