For all intents...
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For all intents...
I *should be feeling pretty crappy right about now. A lot of heavy stuff going on in my life...thing is, I'm doing ok. (Serenity, courage, wisdom) I'm not skimming stones or anything, but I'm also not drinking 🙌 and I don't have a desire to.
13 days sober, 2 mtgs under my belt today, about to leave for the 3rd one. I made a nice dish to share with my sober family there...I really cannot complain.
Beyond grateful.
🎆Happy safe and sober 4th🎆
Jules
13 days sober, 2 mtgs under my belt today, about to leave for the 3rd one. I made a nice dish to share with my sober family there...I really cannot complain.
Beyond grateful.
🎆Happy safe and sober 4th🎆
Jules
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Thank you everyone.
This IS getting better, despite life on life's terms...I'm getting better. Like it or not, I have to deal. Can't hide in the bottle. It makes it expodentially worse. I know this now. Feeling is something new, as I've just stopped feeling for the last 5 years. It's not easy, but I feel it making me stronger. It's allowing me to be who I was before I poured toxicity in. I've missed her.
This site has been instrumental. Thank you all! It's really nothing short of spectacular to be so supported, to read about myself in roughly everyone's posts. There is such comfort in not feeling alone and seeing it can be done!
Hope. THERE is a welcome change.
Thanks again,
J
This IS getting better, despite life on life's terms...I'm getting better. Like it or not, I have to deal. Can't hide in the bottle. It makes it expodentially worse. I know this now. Feeling is something new, as I've just stopped feeling for the last 5 years. It's not easy, but I feel it making me stronger. It's allowing me to be who I was before I poured toxicity in. I've missed her.
This site has been instrumental. Thank you all! It's really nothing short of spectacular to be so supported, to read about myself in roughly everyone's posts. There is such comfort in not feeling alone and seeing it can be done!
Hope. THERE is a welcome change.
Thanks again,
J
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Jules, great job on what should be two weeks by the time you read this! The life on life's terms is something we definitely need to adjust to. I always thought alcohol was my stress relief, but truthfully it just pushed the problems down for me to deal with hungover the next day.
You sound like you are doing great!
❤️Delilah
You sound like you are doing great!
❤️Delilah
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Thank you!!
It IS day 14. I feel really good physically. Emotionally I'm in check, for now...ebbs and flows... Not going to lie, it's very hard for me to be alone, as I never have been (I feel like I'm being redundant here) but it's getting easier. Trying to find positives...I get the whole bed! I'm actually focusing on getting better!
I hit the 9 AM meeting. Best way *for me* to start the day. I need to be plugged in and learn and socialize.
Have a good day everyone,
J
It IS day 14. I feel really good physically. Emotionally I'm in check, for now...ebbs and flows... Not going to lie, it's very hard for me to be alone, as I never have been (I feel like I'm being redundant here) but it's getting easier. Trying to find positives...I get the whole bed! I'm actually focusing on getting better!
I hit the 9 AM meeting. Best way *for me* to start the day. I need to be plugged in and learn and socialize.
Have a good day everyone,
J
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Hey thanks, Gilmer!!
I'm honestly just happy to be healthy enough to read and write in comparison to 2 weeks ago. I distinctly remember trying to say the Serenity Prayer in my stupor and mixed it all up. Awful. What is truly sad is that it's 2 feet away from the end of my bed hanging on the wall...and I know it by heart when sober.
J
I'm honestly just happy to be healthy enough to read and write in comparison to 2 weeks ago. I distinctly remember trying to say the Serenity Prayer in my stupor and mixed it all up. Awful. What is truly sad is that it's 2 feet away from the end of my bed hanging on the wall...and I know it by heart when sober.
J
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