Happy Thursday my SR friends
learning to live
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Join Date: Apr 2014
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Happy Thursday my SR friends
Hey guys. I am very newly sober from a recent relapse. I woke this morning with an outlook I never had with drinking. I'd like to document it for myself and you guys!
Since being sober for only a short while my whole outlook has changed.
I am:
More positive
Wake up ready to face the day instead of hating myself or feeling like crap
More energy
Have started the gym again
Anxiety has lessened
Physically look better
I feel hope for my future
I am spending WAY more time with family and friends - not secluding
I get out and do things rather than sitting at home depressed and scared
I start my morning with positive messages either online, TV, or reading
Getting my relationship back with God
Confidence increase
Anyway, I just wanted to share this with newbies and my friends on SR.
In only 4 days my whole outlook has changed. The longest sobriety stint I have had is 99 days and I nowhere feel close to the way I felt then but just know every single day gets better. I feel less lost and life makes more sense. I feel like I have a purpose. I feel like I am living instead of surviving and making it through every day hungover.
It is just mind boggling to me that 1 thing in my life (alcohol) can make every single thing around me fall to pieces. I wont allow it to rule anymore! I got goals that I want to achieve..number 1 being HAPPY! When alcohol is around it is all that matters to me and everything that is important and makes me happy falls to the side. Screw that! I'm happy without it and miserable with it.
Happy sober Thursday everyone.
Since being sober for only a short while my whole outlook has changed.
I am:
More positive
Wake up ready to face the day instead of hating myself or feeling like crap
More energy
Have started the gym again
Anxiety has lessened
Physically look better
I feel hope for my future
I am spending WAY more time with family and friends - not secluding
I get out and do things rather than sitting at home depressed and scared
I start my morning with positive messages either online, TV, or reading
Getting my relationship back with God
Confidence increase
Anyway, I just wanted to share this with newbies and my friends on SR.
In only 4 days my whole outlook has changed. The longest sobriety stint I have had is 99 days and I nowhere feel close to the way I felt then but just know every single day gets better. I feel less lost and life makes more sense. I feel like I have a purpose. I feel like I am living instead of surviving and making it through every day hungover.
It is just mind boggling to me that 1 thing in my life (alcohol) can make every single thing around me fall to pieces. I wont allow it to rule anymore! I got goals that I want to achieve..number 1 being HAPPY! When alcohol is around it is all that matters to me and everything that is important and makes me happy falls to the side. Screw that! I'm happy without it and miserable with it.
Happy sober Thursday everyone.
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learning to live
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Thanks SW
Thanks for the article. I like #12. I seem to over complicate things. It makes it easier to look at it as a choice I own - pick up or not
Of course I needs tons of support too. I have learned that since my last relapse. I finally get that the time of each relapse was not lost since I learn something every time that is valuable to my recovery! All of the other tips were very helpful too!!! Thanks again!
Thanks for the article. I like #12. I seem to over complicate things. It makes it easier to look at it as a choice I own - pick up or not
Of course I needs tons of support too. I have learned that since my last relapse. I finally get that the time of each relapse was not lost since I learn something every time that is valuable to my recovery! All of the other tips were very helpful too!!! Thanks again!
learning to live
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 1,665
Elle - I love the avatar!!!
Sprout - love the siggie!!!
Thanks guys! It's been a productive one so far for me and it's only noon. I would used to be sitting in bed beating myself up. But instead today, nonhungover I have done a load of laundry, studied my motivational stuff in the AM, and finished leg day at the gym
Man, it feels good to be a gangsta...I mean uh yeah sober 
My 80's babies will get that
Sprout - love the siggie!!!
Thanks guys! It's been a productive one so far for me and it's only noon. I would used to be sitting in bed beating myself up. But instead today, nonhungover I have done a load of laundry, studied my motivational stuff in the AM, and finished leg day at the gym
Man, it feels good to be a gangsta...I mean uh yeah sober My 80's babies will get that
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