256 days sober
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256 days sober
Hi all! According to my sobriety calculator, today is 256 days sober for me. Almost 9 months and in just a few months 1 year. I can honestly say that the day I got sober was a miracle with how bad I had gotten. I think the main struggle I have had in the past almost 9 months is that I have to deal with my issues head on and I have struggled with depression and anxiety most of my life. I have days, yesterday one of them, where I am hurting bad and this time, I have nothing to numb it with. I have to deal.
Being sober is SO much better for me to cope with life and my inner demons. Life is not a full of rainbows and butterflies just because I got sober. That is my advice to newly sober people, is that life is not going to magically get better. I also now am facing the consequences of my actions while i was drinking everyday, so I now have extra problems, but I take accountability. Being sober I have found a true inner peace that no substance could possibly ever do. It's a soul thing =)I also am getting the real me. In active addiction, I was the drunk girl wearing heels, social butterfly and attracted to drama. And the real me is slightly more introverted than extroverted, I love to read, I do not like wearing high heels. I don't like drama. I was being someone I wasn't because I did not know who I was.
I go to AA, have a sponsor, I am currently on Step 6. I have faith and I also have a job where I have been very reliable for the past 8 months. So I am trying and even on those really tough days, I refuse to go back to the person I was in active addiction.
Being sober is SO much better for me to cope with life and my inner demons. Life is not a full of rainbows and butterflies just because I got sober. That is my advice to newly sober people, is that life is not going to magically get better. I also now am facing the consequences of my actions while i was drinking everyday, so I now have extra problems, but I take accountability. Being sober I have found a true inner peace that no substance could possibly ever do. It's a soul thing =)I also am getting the real me. In active addiction, I was the drunk girl wearing heels, social butterfly and attracted to drama. And the real me is slightly more introverted than extroverted, I love to read, I do not like wearing high heels. I don't like drama. I was being someone I wasn't because I did not know who I was.
I go to AA, have a sponsor, I am currently on Step 6. I have faith and I also have a job where I have been very reliable for the past 8 months. So I am trying and even on those really tough days, I refuse to go back to the person I was in active addiction.
Keep going! 
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Originally Posted by Highercall 
I am happy to hear you are doing so well. Remorse for the past is difficult but that was yesterday and today is the present. Live for today.
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