June Sobriety Group Part 2
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Looks like this thread is kind of dieing out. Keep going everyone! TJ, you should check back in and get your troops back! You are their leader. Hugs everyone. Hope sobriety is going well. It isn't easy at first, but man is it worth it!
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I'm still around with a sobriety date of 6/5/10. 67 days now, I think. At times it has been easy, other times hard, but I am still sober! I am learning how to deal with things without drinking. now I just have to get moving on the rest of me. . .I still go to meetings daily, and check on here. . .all support is good.
how are the rest of the Junies doing?
how are the rest of the Junies doing?
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Originally Posted by HFA 
Date of June 28, 2010. Going good. Cravings are few, but some are intense. Need to get the eating under control. Glad to see this thread get some action. I feared I was the only Juner left. 
Day 42
Day 42
Congratulations on your 42 days~ Did you continue with the SMART meetings you tried out awhile back? Melinda
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Originally Posted by MelindaFlowers
Hi HFA! Congratulations on your 42 days~ Did you continue with the SMART meetings you tried out awhile back? Melinda
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Hey all, well i am ashamed to say the last 3 weeks have been a total loss for me..Started off 1 to 2x week and then was getting back to 3 to 4 x a week. So..I am back! Hooray! LOL! Today is the end of day 2 for me. Hope all is well with everyone and I'd like to stick with the June group, whomever is left, I'm with ya!
Xo
Xo
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Hey HFA! Glad you are well! I made it 23 days then after I drank the first time and stopped posting as much and stopped counting days, I just fell back into my old pattern. It was starting to get bad. Hell who am I fooling, it is bad. So I am not so worried about the withdrawl this time, (fingers crossed).
I think I drank again because I went to therapy and was so proud of myself for going to an addiction specialist, I thought I would celebrate! Nice huh? Productive..
Another reason I think I started drinking was all the memories of the crap I had done or not done in the past. Those damn memories long hidden started emerging and it was sink or drink or so i thought. Drinking makes it so much worse, I had just forgotten that drowning your sorrows is drowning yourself.
I know this is long and you just asked a single question, but sometimes we need to remember the reasons we stopped drinking in the first place.
Thats why this sight is so important. Give and take! It really works, look what happened after I stopped posting..
XO
I think I drank again because I went to therapy and was so proud of myself for going to an addiction specialist, I thought I would celebrate! Nice huh? Productive..
Another reason I think I started drinking was all the memories of the crap I had done or not done in the past. Those damn memories long hidden started emerging and it was sink or drink or so i thought. Drinking makes it so much worse, I had just forgotten that drowning your sorrows is drowning yourself.
I know this is long and you just asked a single question, but sometimes we need to remember the reasons we stopped drinking in the first place.
Thats why this sight is so important. Give and take! It really works, look what happened after I stopped posting..
XO
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Originally Posted by alexvt
I know this is long and you just asked a single question, but sometimes we need to remember the reasons we stopped drinking in the first place. Thats why this sight is so important. Give and take! It really works, look what happened after I stopped posting..XO
Day 45
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Welcome back, Alexvt! I am glad you are back. I missed you and wondered what had happened.
I started here two years ago, lurked, started posting but then couldn't make it past 3-4 days so I stopped posting. Then I stopped coming here altogether. I have often wondered if I had had the courage to keep posting back then when I was struggling with so many Day 1's if I would have been more successful sooner.
Day 41.
I started here two years ago, lurked, started posting but then couldn't make it past 3-4 days so I stopped posting. Then I stopped coming here altogether. I have often wondered if I had had the courage to keep posting back then when I was struggling with so many Day 1's if I would have been more successful sooner.
Day 41.
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Thanks Lyddie! I made it 23 days than sort of got cocky and scared. Funny combo huh? Anyway day 3 for me and I'm glad to see your on day 41! WhooHoo! That's great!
HFA-Congrats on Day 46!
Who all is left in June Group?
XO
HFA-Congrats on Day 46!
Who all is left in June Group?
XO
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Originally Posted by alexvt
Hey all, well i am ashamed to say the last 3 weeks have been a total loss for me..Started off 1 to 2x week and then was getting back to 3 to 4 x a week. So..I am back! Hooray! LOL! Today is the end of day 2 for me. Hope all is well with everyone and I'd like to stick with the June group, whomever is left, I'm with ya!
Xo
Xo
Let's make a deal: you check in everyday and I will too!
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Hi everyone!!! Lost my password and something happened to my computer and have been unable to log in to SR for a while. I have been using the time away from SR wisely and will fill you all in soon. Going for a run right now, but promise to catch up very soon.
Laura
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Hi again... I have a lot to share so it may not be able to fit in one post (I have to go to the grocery store - LOL) so I'll share as much as I can right now and more later.
I have had a few "light bulb" moments lately. I tend to think my deepest and clearest thoughts when I go for a run, and I believe this happened on one of my runs.
Thought: "Why do I keep drinking?"
Answer: "Because I don't truly believe I'm an alcoholic."
Thought: "Why don't I think I'm an alcoholic?"
hmmmm.... thinking.... hmmm....
Answer: "Because no one else sees me that way."
Thought: "But no one really sees me downing those bottles of wine like I do. I do that all by myself, and I make a really good attempt at hiding that behavior from everyone."
* DING, DING, DING *
Answer: There's the disconnect. They don't know about my serious drinking as they don't see it. So of course they don't think I'm an alcoholic. I know more about it than they do.
Light bulb moment. It's not as if I go on Facebook putting as my status update: "Man, I'm really hungover today. Shouldn't have finished that bottle of Chardonnay last night." In fact, I have gone to great trouble to hide my problem drinking from people. There have been times when I was too hungover to go to my tennis class or whatever and made up another excuse, such as I had to work, etc. I have gone to great trouble to hide my drinking.
So that was the first real breakthrough moment. I accepted that I'm an alcoholic, and even if the label thing doesn't quite gel with me I have to put myself in the category of one since my drinking has been such a problem for me the past few years.
I don't want to make this post too long, so I'll stop here and write another.
I have had a few "light bulb" moments lately. I tend to think my deepest and clearest thoughts when I go for a run, and I believe this happened on one of my runs.
Thought: "Why do I keep drinking?"
Answer: "Because I don't truly believe I'm an alcoholic."
Thought: "Why don't I think I'm an alcoholic?"
hmmmm.... thinking.... hmmm....
Answer: "Because no one else sees me that way."
Thought: "But no one really sees me downing those bottles of wine like I do. I do that all by myself, and I make a really good attempt at hiding that behavior from everyone."
* DING, DING, DING *
Answer: There's the disconnect. They don't know about my serious drinking as they don't see it. So of course they don't think I'm an alcoholic. I know more about it than they do.
Light bulb moment. It's not as if I go on Facebook putting as my status update: "Man, I'm really hungover today. Shouldn't have finished that bottle of Chardonnay last night." In fact, I have gone to great trouble to hide my problem drinking from people. There have been times when I was too hungover to go to my tennis class or whatever and made up another excuse, such as I had to work, etc. I have gone to great trouble to hide my drinking.
So that was the first real breakthrough moment. I accepted that I'm an alcoholic, and even if the label thing doesn't quite gel with me I have to put myself in the category of one since my drinking has been such a problem for me the past few years.
I don't want to make this post too long, so I'll stop here and write another.
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