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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: New York
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Originally Posted by Dee74 
Welcome back CloudStrife 
so whats your plan?
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so whats your plan?
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I'm going to make an appointment with my doctor this week to get checked out.
I also plan on making an appointment to speak with a therapist.
I need to address my tendency to self isolate. I want to "come clean" to a few family members and friends for added accountability.
Signed up online for a gym today so I can develop some healthier interests and routines.
I've been reading a lot of Buddhist philosophy lately and it is really speaking to me. So I'm looking for ways to incorporate Buddhism into my recovery process.
I know its going to be a lot of hard work. This last drinking cycle has really ingrained in me how serious, progressive, and deadly this disease is. Feeling a bit overwhelmed and scared because I'm realizing what a sham my life has become. But I'm beginning to understand that my life will be okay as long as I don't drink.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 51,558
Good to see you, CloudStrife. You are back with new determination and resolve. I think you learned something valuable. I needed further convincing too - long after I knew it was poison to me. We can do this, together.
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Tuxedo Park, NY
Posts: 1,101
Good luck cloud, sounds like you have some good ideas on how to begin your sober journey.
One word of advice is to take it slow one day at a time, sometimes even one minute at a time. If you try to do too much too fast it can get overwhelming. Stay focused on being sober, start with small goals and move forward from there. Before you know it they will start amounting to a lot.
It took a long time to get where you are now and there is no quick way out but there is a way and that begins with zero alcohol.
I am glad your going to see your Dr. That is really important.
One word of advice is to take it slow one day at a time, sometimes even one minute at a time. If you try to do too much too fast it can get overwhelming. Stay focused on being sober, start with small goals and move forward from there. Before you know it they will start amounting to a lot.
It took a long time to get where you are now and there is no quick way out but there is a way and that begins with zero alcohol.
I am glad your going to see your Dr. That is really important.
Um Dia de Cada Vez
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Brasil
Posts: 613
Hello CloudStrife, welcome to SR.
I just wanted to say that I started playing Final Fantasy VII a couple of months ago and it's been one of the most amazing experiences in my sober journey. I was always up to playing fighting and racing games when drunk, so when I got sober playing a RPG was very refreshing.
My secret was to come back here every day, if not posting, at least reading other people's stories.
I just wanted to say that I started playing Final Fantasy VII a couple of months ago and it's been one of the most amazing experiences in my sober journey. I was always up to playing fighting and racing games when drunk, so when I got sober playing a RPG was very refreshing.
My secret was to come back here every day, if not posting, at least reading other people's stories.
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 325
Hi cloud. Great you are back ! The best advice I got early on, which isn't all aways easy to do, was be kind to yourself. Put yourself and your recovery first. Reach out either to us or others, ESPECIALLY when things are tough. And I am finding that sometimes I just need to let my mind and my emotions do what they need to do, but not to go with them, if that makes sense. Please stay with us this time. Sending you strength. We are all in this together.
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