Originally Posted by LadyBlue0527

I realize that everyone is different and the stages of sobriety won't be the same. However, I've been experiencing something recently that, if is something that can be looked forward to, may help the newcomers. I'm hoping that some old timers and anyone who has had a fair amount of sobriety under their belt can offer some thoughts. If you're new to sobriety and are experiencing the same please chime in too!

This is day 64 for me. I was a weekend binge drinker supplementing days in between if I could. This is the longest that I've been sober in 35 years. This feeling is also something that can't be the pink cloud because I know what that is and I've felt the euphoria. It's actually quite different and I'll try my best to explain it. It's more physical (probably coupled with mentality as well).

I have been waking up to this sensation that I can only describe as feeling soothed and clean. Not every single day but I felt it once or twice towards the end of my first 30 days and then both days last weekend and then this morning. I would liken it to the feeling that you would get when you go to the lake swimming all day and are in wet clothes. It's the end of the day and you change out of the wet clothes into some nice, dry, warm clothes and you sit in front of a fire. You're tired from the days events but very soothed by the warmth of the dry clothes and the fire. Another way to describe it would be when you are freezing cold and you crawl into a nice puffy bed between clean and crisp sheets that has had an electric blanket going to prewarm it. You slip into sheer and utter comfort and say "ahhhhhhhhhhhh". It's like all is right with the world. Oddly enough, this is the same feeling that I would get in the only part that I miss about drinking which was the first 30 minutes when you felt the peace (or what I thought was peace) from the initial buzz. But now, I'm experiencing it completely sober.

Does this sound nuts? I am assuming that this is a combination of my mental attitude of starting to feel happiness and true feelings as they're meant to be felt due to the healing of my brain? Where I also used to have a tightness in my stomach, that's now completely gone, replaced by complete relaxation. Perhaps this is the healing of my intestines and liver after the damage that I was inflicting?

Neither here nor there if I had known that this was one of the perks of sobriety, after I got past the initial abstaining when having urges, I would have done this years ago. I also know that I am going to hold this feeling near and dear because it's going to be a very useful tool throughout my life when the AV comes calling.


Has anyone else experienced this? I can't wait for all you smart a**es out there to say "YEAH, IT'S CALLED TRUE SOBRIETY!"

If this is common it may give those that are newcomers something to really look forward to. I know, everyone is different, but hey, anything that's positive is never a bad thing!