Class of January 2015 Part 2
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 33
Alynn ...... WELCOME so glad to have you in our group ... Iam on day 9 and totally Iam right there with you ... I have done so much hiding from my husband and kids ..... Hang in there, this is a great group ... This is all new to me but I just pray it sticks 
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Alberta Canada
Posts: 468
Welcome Alynn! Day 2 here and like Nashv, I know all too well the hiding of things from my husband and kids. I don't think I ever fooled them but the sting of embarrassment bites so I will continue to think I did. At least for now. I look at others and I'm so envious because I think what would it be like to not be such a drunk. Ouch that bites too. Right now I'm concentrating on doing this for MYSELF. I just want to be able to go to bed with dignity and be able to have a healthy restful sleep among many other things but that's my big one right now.
Right now I'm concentrating on doing this for MYSELF. I just want to be able to go to bed with dignity and be able to have a healthy restful sleep among many other things but that's my big one right now.
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: FLAAADAH
Posts: 793
Here's a tip for those sleepless nights. I take my smartphone (android) but it can be anything to connect to data...AA speaker tapes..."Odomology" (youtube) speaker tapes, Father Martin "Chalk Talks" (you tube)...a pair of comfortable ear bud speakers...just lay in the dark and listen. You'll doze off eventually. There are thousands and thousands of these recordings available online. Check them out !
If you do fall asleep, it will be a peaceful restoring sleep. Your subconcious mind will soak up the info like a sponge. You dont have to do anything. Just listen.
Dont get any simpler.
DD
P.S. It doesnt work with music. Music gets you "hyped" up.
If you do fall asleep, it will be a peaceful restoring sleep. Your subconcious mind will soak up the info like a sponge. You dont have to do anything. Just listen.
Dont get any simpler.
DD
P.S. It doesnt work with music. Music gets you "hyped" up.
Do your best
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 67,047
This is a great link for insomnia (this was found kindly by D)
Relaxation Techniques | University of Maryland Medical Center
Relaxation Techniques | University of Maryland Medical Center
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Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 106
[QUOTE="martina12;5135199"] I'm with Canguy on sugar hits...I seem to have swopped the alcohol for a full blown chocolate addiction. I bought 2 large slabs of chocolate today and made a very rich chocolate cake..Oh dear lol /QUOTE]
Same Martina.
I don't normally eat chocolate, I don't really care for it. Plus chocolate and peanuts sometimes give me cold sores. Anyway yesterday I did a intense yoga session, came home, at a whole packet of chocolate M&Ms then crashed out in some sugar coma. Haha!
Day 10 here!
Wow wee...
--------------------------------------------------- "Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a day without any new mistakes in it yet?" Anne of Green Gables.-
/QUOTE] Same Martina.
I don't normally eat chocolate, I don't really care for it. Plus chocolate and peanuts sometimes give me cold sores. Anyway yesterday I did a intense yoga session, came home, at a whole packet of chocolate M&Ms then crashed out in some sugar coma. Haha!
Day 10 here!
Wow wee...
--------------------------------------------------- "Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a day without any new mistakes in it yet?" Anne of Green Gables.-
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Ga
Posts: 1,511
Originally Posted by DuhDave 
Here's a tip for those sleepless nights. I take my smartphone (android) but it can be anything to connect to data...AA speaker tapes..."Odomology" (youtube) speaker tapes, Father Martin "Chalk Talks" (you tube)...a pair of comfortable ear bud speakers...just lay in the dark and listen. You'll doze off eventually. There are thousands and thousands of these recordings available online. Check them out ! If you do fall asleep, it will be a peaceful restoring sleep. Your subconcious mind will soak up the info like a sponge. You dont have to do anything. Just listen. Dont get any simpler. DD P.S. It doesnt work with music. Music gets you "hyped" up.
The Little Alcoholic Monstress That Could
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Northern California
Posts: 1,159
Welcome Alynn love your spirit.
End of day 13. Ill be waking up to 2 weeks sober. Lord let me get through the next weekend. Ive been working out and eating better. Racing thoughts and headaches from time to time but nothing thats going to kill me. See my therapist tomorrow... cant wait actually!
Good night all!
End of day 13. Ill be waking up to 2 weeks sober. Lord let me get through the next weekend. Ive been working out and eating better. Racing thoughts and headaches from time to time but nothing thats going to kill me. See my therapist tomorrow... cant wait actually!
Good night all!
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 1,174
....evening...
...to all the January people.
Welcome to the latest arrivals, Alynn, Robinson,
ting, I'm trying cacao....the stuff they make chocolate out of by adding sugar and mikfat. Will see if its the choc or the sugar that affects.
Home again after a quiet day at work and just sitting in the kitchen here, hot southerly outside and the fridge humming away behind me. This is definitely a drinking moment....but I don't really feel it as an urge, or something I desperately crave . This is just one of those slightly flat moments that alcohol would pick up for a short while.
This early sobriety sometimes feels like a very fragile cage. There's not much holding you in there really. I don't find myself thinking how good it would be to drink. I just look at the weary inevitability of what would follow if I did.
Go get busy....Day 13 in the morning
G'nite
Welcome to the latest arrivals, Alynn, Robinson,
ting, I'm trying cacao....the stuff they make chocolate out of by adding sugar and mikfat. Will see if its the choc or the sugar that affects.
Home again after a quiet day at work and just sitting in the kitchen here, hot southerly outside and the fridge humming away behind me. This is definitely a drinking moment....but I don't really feel it as an urge, or something I desperately crave . This is just one of those slightly flat moments that alcohol would pick up for a short while.
This early sobriety sometimes feels like a very fragile cage. There's not much holding you in there really. I don't find myself thinking how good it would be to drink. I just look at the weary inevitability of what would follow if I did.
Go get busy....Day 13 in the morning
G'nite
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Western Washington
Posts: 202
Originally Posted by canguy
....what is it with being sober and chocolate? Always loved a bit of dark choc....but lately, once I start... I've got a box of cacao here now...pure powdered chocolate, unsweetened. That should hit the spot. Tried it straight of the spoon....think maybe drinking it would be better.
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