Class of May 2014 Part 2
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Originally Posted by rochele 
Can you drink some water and get some rest, newpage?
Hopefully they'll be gentle with me today.
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I'm a member of the April class with a slip on Saturday so I want to check in here, too. Need to be accountable! Day 2 this morning and I'm feeling strong!!
Seems like there's a few of us on Day 2. Here's to a sober Monday, May!
Seems like there's a few of us on Day 2. Here's to a sober Monday, May!
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Join Date: May 2014
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Day 9! At the start I never believed I'd still be here, but here I am! Now I have the confidence to stay with the class of May 2014. One day at a time! I feel so great now mentally and physically.. just tired at times.. but my thinking is so much clearer.
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Day 6. Feeling a little less sick but my brain isn't working. It's very hard to concentrate. I can't hardly read through a post this morning. Work should be interesting today. I am so ready to be over the sobriety hangover.
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My strategy first - is to have NO WINE in the house. And that's where I caved, after someone gave me a bottle of white wine on Mother's Day. I stupidly put it in the fridge where it stared at me for a whole week and then I gave in.
Also - checking in here a lot. I had stopped logging on so frequently the past week. Mistake.
Lastly - reading reminders of how cruddy it feels to be a WINO (or whatever the drug of choice is) - and that includes reading books of recovery, my old posts here, and other's posts that stand out to me. I personally like to read Alphaomega's post frequently. Not all parts "were me" but the middle of the night panic was dead-on.
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...night-lot.html
Whatever we choose, we have to remain diligent on our chosen strategies! Easier said than done, I know. This is my second go.
Also - checking in here a lot. I had stopped logging on so frequently the past week. Mistake.
Lastly - reading reminders of how cruddy it feels to be a WINO (or whatever the drug of choice is) - and that includes reading books of recovery, my old posts here, and other's posts that stand out to me. I personally like to read Alphaomega's post frequently. Not all parts "were me" but the middle of the night panic was dead-on.
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...night-lot.html
Whatever we choose, we have to remain diligent on our chosen strategies! Easier said than done, I know. This is my second go.
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Originally Posted by rochele
Two kids too, but a bit older. Middle school and elementary aged.
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Well it's day 1, and my birthday. Should have been day 7 but last night I drank. But I'm getting back on track right away and committed to staying positive and accountable. Joining the class of May 2014. Joined sober recovery.com back in March, when I realized my hands were still shaking after two days of not drinking from my last binge. Finally posting, here I am, I feel like something is shifting in me and I want this this time. Everything will flow from my sobriety.
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Would someone please remind me to live in the day and stop imagining my entire future sober life like it's all going to be a desert of misery and monotony? I only have 8 days sober. Today feels nice in the sunshine and that should be enough. X
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Elizabeth19;4660539. I like your phrase " everything will flow from my sobriety". My sister says more and more doors opened for her the longer she stayed sober. Her life was closed down and miserable and now she knows so many people. She travels and has all sorts of amazing experiences.
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Hello again everyone, its great too 'meet' the class of May and sounds like a lot of people are doing well and for those back at the beginning like me at least we are still trying. Although I'm slightly worried that I am (not so) secretly allowing myself to be able to 'slip' and go back to day 1 so that I can drink instead of dealing with situations I feel I would struggle with sober.
nmd I am also back to day 1. I manage the week but the weekends are a trial, particularly with the nice weather.
Miaine, day 2 is good, at least you are on the right track!
Applekat, wine is also my drink, white usually. WINO....yes I am one ashamed to say.
Why oh why do I keep believing I can just have a few! Went to a friends yesterday, we got through 2 bottles....each. My friend will do that now and then, usually with me, but not all the time, she had a 3/4 bottle of opened wine in her fridge... very rare for me not to finish a bottle. Another wasted day and feeling bad in so many ways.
We are going to friends at the weekend, they enjoy a drink and will sometimes have too much, as will my husband while there, but I am always the worst and can sometimes be unpredictable when drinking. I cant face not drinking but I cant face being the drunk who potentially upsets everyone and feels too embarrassed to face people and too rough to enjoy anything the next day.
I HATE ALCOHOL, but I must love it too. Not matter how much I know I should give it up because I CANNOT control my drinking I want to be able to 'just have a few' and keep proving to myself that I cant! I know when I buy that bottle of wine I intend to drink it all. AAAHHHHH! Feeling so mad with myself.
Hope everyone has a good sober day, I wont drink today I feel too bad, it will be the weekend when my AV starts in. I am just going to take one day at a time.
nmd I am also back to day 1. I manage the week but the weekends are a trial, particularly with the nice weather.
Miaine, day 2 is good, at least you are on the right track!
Applekat, wine is also my drink, white usually. WINO....yes I am one ashamed to say.
Why oh why do I keep believing I can just have a few! Went to a friends yesterday, we got through 2 bottles....each. My friend will do that now and then, usually with me, but not all the time, she had a 3/4 bottle of opened wine in her fridge... very rare for me not to finish a bottle. Another wasted day and feeling bad in so many ways.
We are going to friends at the weekend, they enjoy a drink and will sometimes have too much, as will my husband while there, but I am always the worst and can sometimes be unpredictable when drinking. I cant face not drinking but I cant face being the drunk who potentially upsets everyone and feels too embarrassed to face people and too rough to enjoy anything the next day.
I HATE ALCOHOL, but I must love it too. Not matter how much I know I should give it up because I CANNOT control my drinking I want to be able to 'just have a few' and keep proving to myself that I cant! I know when I buy that bottle of wine I intend to drink it all. AAAHHHHH! Feeling so mad with myself.
Hope everyone has a good sober day, I wont drink today I feel too bad, it will be the weekend when my AV starts in. I am just going to take one day at a time.
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