About a week sober
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About a week sober
Yay me.I have plans to stay sober. But inside of me wants to drink in the middle of the summer. Which I'm grateful my AV wants to wait. But an odd feeling. I feel like I can't escape it because alcohol consumption is rampet in my age group.
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Summer is also a strong challenge for me.
For me, if I have "pre-awareness" of a certain image or place or event being a potential challenge to my sobriety, I have time to develop an alternate plan. My intention this summer is to throw myself forward with fitness & outdoor adventures. That might mean taking up trail running, getting more serious about kayaking, or being the instigator of sober camping adventures among my recovery community. The more I am able to fill my intentions with activities which are incompatible with drinking - because trail running drunk just doesn't work very well - akin to going to yoga class drunk (which I have actually done! I was asked to leave the class after falling out of a posture or two...completely humiliating), the more I am expanding my life into my sobriety.
Incompatibility with alcohol - filling my plans & being with those things is the only way to fortify myself against the perceived benefits of drinking...
For me, if I have "pre-awareness" of a certain image or place or event being a potential challenge to my sobriety, I have time to develop an alternate plan. My intention this summer is to throw myself forward with fitness & outdoor adventures. That might mean taking up trail running, getting more serious about kayaking, or being the instigator of sober camping adventures among my recovery community. The more I am able to fill my intentions with activities which are incompatible with drinking - because trail running drunk just doesn't work very well - akin to going to yoga class drunk (which I have actually done! I was asked to leave the class after falling out of a posture or two...completely humiliating), the more I am expanding my life into my sobriety.
Incompatibility with alcohol - filling my plans & being with those things is the only way to fortify myself against the perceived benefits of drinking...
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