Class Of November 2012 - Part 7
I always think I shouldn't be here if I'm not 100 percent committed and I always feel like I'm letting people down by not sticking with it. I'm really just letting myself down. I know I am much happier when I remove alcohol from my life. I am putting days together again. Maybe this will be my November.
I am determined this will be my November. I'm recommitted and feel a sense of relief. I was sober long enough to remember how good it felt to be authentic and I'm back on that path.
I'm going to my parent's for Thanksgiving and that's a good thing. It will be very low key - just the kids and me since husband will be here working. I've not been drinking around my parents since I stopped last year so they think of me as a non-drinker now anyway.
Checking in here was what I needed to wake up.
I'm going to my parent's for Thanksgiving and that's a good thing. It will be very low key - just the kids and me since husband will be here working. I've not been drinking around my parents since I stopped last year so they think of me as a non-drinker now anyway.
Checking in here was what I needed to wake up.
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Hi Charlie! So great to see you! I feel like out little family is complete here again!
Not sure why I have taken back to checking in here..either way I am glad I am.
Charlie, in all my time I have learned the secret to sobriety! Don't pick up...and keep coming back!
I can 100% promise if you do that, you won't get drunk!!!!
Please keep checkin in! Once a Novie, always a Novie.
Not sure why I have taken back to checking in here..either way I am glad I am.
Charlie, in all my time I have learned the secret to sobriety! Don't pick up...and keep coming back!
I can 100% promise if you do that, you won't get drunk!!!!
Please keep checkin in! Once a Novie, always a Novie.
Thanks JSD! You're right...the key is to avoid the first drink. I'm doing well again. I've started working out at night when I get home. It helps to pass the time and makes me feel good.
I'm spending time working on my plan to be prepared for triggers and to accept my reality that any drink is one drink too many. Eventually, I'll end up back at the same place: sitting in my house late at night after drinking too much wine, stomach all in knots, unhappy and angry with myself. It's not who I want to be.
I'm spending time working on my plan to be prepared for triggers and to accept my reality that any drink is one drink too many. Eventually, I'll end up back at the same place: sitting in my house late at night after drinking too much wine, stomach all in knots, unhappy and angry with myself. It's not who I want to be.
Hi Everyone. Just checking in. Dealing with a pretty brutal stretch the last few months. Tons of BS and whatnot that has had me pretty low. Just fighting through it. I know it could always be worse, but it could be better to. I hope you guys are doing well. VR
Hey guys! Wow, great to see so many old faces. Just have a Bashford, Squizz, and Sisterella check-in and it would be a full on Novie reunion.
Charliee, exercise in the evening has helped me more than words. It's interesting in many ways, I kind of treat it the same way I did with drinking. I do it 4 or 5 times a week, and always completely clear my schedule to make time. Certainly the high I get on the treadmill is comparable as well. Once an addict always an addict I suppose. But of course running doesn't ruin one's life Hang in there!
VR, sorry to hear you're going through a rough stretch mate. As we well know, soberiety isn't always rainbows and unicorns. Living life on life's terms and all that. Easier said than done sometimes, but our worst day sober is better than any day drinking.
As for me, my new thing is gratitude lists! So much to be thankful in life, sometimes easy to lose sight of that.
Charliee, exercise in the evening has helped me more than words. It's interesting in many ways, I kind of treat it the same way I did with drinking. I do it 4 or 5 times a week, and always completely clear my schedule to make time. Certainly the high I get on the treadmill is comparable as well. Once an addict always an addict I suppose. But of course running doesn't ruin one's life Hang in there!
VR, sorry to hear you're going through a rough stretch mate. As we well know, soberiety isn't always rainbows and unicorns. Living life on life's terms and all that. Easier said than done sometimes, but our worst day sober is better than any day drinking.
As for me, my new thing is gratitude lists! So much to be thankful in life, sometimes easy to lose sight of that.
The evening exercise is really working for me. I'm doing Taebo so it's a lot of kicking and punching which makes me feel powerful and much tougher than I really am. I took two days off since my husband was home. His job has weird hours and he works Sat-Wed. When he left this afternoon, I got a little worried about all the time stretching out in front of me tonight so I came on SR. Now it's time to put in the DVD and get my sweat on. I'm actually looking forward to it. Then a shower, dinner, tea and bed. I am grateful for peaceful evenings. Great idea to start a gratitude list.
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Look at us with the active thread again!
vr...u know the deal. This to shall pass. And I'll be stronger on the other side. I went through it recently...it sucks!!!!
Exercise is my new battle. I'm gonna commit and use you all to stay accountable. Sending you all lots of gratitude and love, it's wonderful to see this place getting used again.
vr...u know the deal. This to shall pass. And I'll be stronger on the other side. I went through it recently...it sucks!!!!
Exercise is my new battle. I'm gonna commit and use you all to stay accountable. Sending you all lots of gratitude and love, it's wonderful to see this place getting used again.
Hey, JSD, let's do it! Even after a week, I feel so much better with the exercise. I'm going to have to take a break from the taebo while I'm at my mom and dad's but I'm going to try to walk every morning. Usually I am the first person up by several hours so that will give me something to do. I like to ramble around my hometown; I'll just need to bundle up because it's going to be cold.
Long drive today. Hopefully the kids won't fight too much in the car.
Hope everyone has a good week.
Long drive today. Hopefully the kids won't fight too much in the car.
Hope everyone has a good week.
I've always felt, on the outside...
Because I choose it, I suppose.
You all have such a rapport it makes me ache and long to join in.
Especially this time of year.
I've been alone for what I see as the forced-on-us-all holidays for 9 years. I struggle with pretending I'm OK in my town, but here, I just wanted to say I don't want to be alone.
Because I choose it, I suppose.
You all have such a rapport it makes me ache and long to join in.
Especially this time of year.
I've been alone for what I see as the forced-on-us-all holidays for 9 years. I struggle with pretending I'm OK in my town, but here, I just wanted to say I don't want to be alone.
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