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6 months
Hi everyone - I'm delighted to be celebrating my six month sober-birthday today.
Anyone who is thinking of giving up, or is in early stages of sobriety, I recommend you stick with it. You cannot have been as hopeless a drunk, as chronic a relapser as me. EVERYDAY for ten years I knew I had to give up...I wanted to give up but just couldn't get there.
I still approach each day as an individual event, planning what I'll do whilst I'm awake to support my sobriety, whether that be avoiding drinking or more positive stuff like exercise, connecting with friends, working, therapy, mindfulness etc. I fear relapse and this drives me on, I won't get complacent today and have planned it carefully.
Ive got two 'secrets' I'd recommend to people who want to get through early sobriety (which i know I'm still in!):
1) Commit to it as the most important thing in your life. I've prioritized it and been lucky covid-19 has allowed me time and space to do so. I've taken any barriers of the table, including my own pride - really my drunkenness removed my pride for me! I do what I'm told by people who have been there/done it and take part in stuff I saw as stupid before (like mindfulness)
2) Eat porridge 😉
Anyone who is thinking of giving up, or is in early stages of sobriety, I recommend you stick with it. You cannot have been as hopeless a drunk, as chronic a relapser as me. EVERYDAY for ten years I knew I had to give up...I wanted to give up but just couldn't get there.
I still approach each day as an individual event, planning what I'll do whilst I'm awake to support my sobriety, whether that be avoiding drinking or more positive stuff like exercise, connecting with friends, working, therapy, mindfulness etc. I fear relapse and this drives me on, I won't get complacent today and have planned it carefully.
Ive got two 'secrets' I'd recommend to people who want to get through early sobriety (which i know I'm still in!):
1) Commit to it as the most important thing in your life. I've prioritized it and been lucky covid-19 has allowed me time and space to do so. I've taken any barriers of the table, including my own pride - really my drunkenness removed my pride for me! I do what I'm told by people who have been there/done it and take part in stuff I saw as stupid before (like mindfulness)
2) Eat porridge 😉
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Congrats. I have made it 6 months sober, before that, 10 months sober. Many 30 day stints. I am a chronic relapser. I have nothing to stay sober for which is why I think I go back to drinking. I will keep trying though.
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Originally Posted by Wastinglife 
Congrats. I have made it 6 months sober, before that, 10 months sober. Many 30 day stints. I am a chronic relapser. I have nothing to stay sober for which is why I think I go back to drinking. I will keep trying though.
I just feel better now. I still have low periods, I'm still a tiny bit over weight, I have ups and downs. But I feel a million times better.
I swallowed the lie that alcohol made me feel better. It didn't, and it wouldn't if I ever drank again. It made me miserable. And now I don't drink it I am not miserable
It really is liberating
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Congratulations, Be123. "Commit to it as if it were the most important thing in your life." = wise words.
If I were a diabetic, I'd commit to my diet and medicine to keep myself alive. I'm an alcoholic. I've got it a lot easier than that in a way. All I have to do to keep myself alive is not drink.
If I were a diabetic, I'd commit to my diet and medicine to keep myself alive. I'm an alcoholic. I've got it a lot easier than that in a way. All I have to do to keep myself alive is not drink.
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Originally Posted by Wastinglife
Congrats. I have made it 6 months sober, before that, 10 months sober. Many 30 day stints. I am a chronic relapser. I have nothing to stay sober for which is why I think I go back to drinking. I will keep trying though.
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Originally Posted by Be123
Ive got two 'secrets' I'd recommend to people who want to get through early sobriety (which i know I'm still in!):
1) Commit to it as the most important thing in your life.
1) Commit to it as the most important thing in your life.
Congratulations on 6 months. That's what you have to do to get there. You're figuring this thing out.
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Originally Posted by biminiblue
Congrats, Be123.
It will keep getting better.
It is also the most important thing in my life. It is the very first thing I say to myself in the morning. "Thank you God for my sobriety."
No turn-back.
It will keep getting better.
It is also the most important thing in my life. It is the very first thing I say to myself in the morning. "Thank you God for my sobriety."
No turn-back.
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