11 days and feeling great!
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Join Date: May 2018
Location: Ontario
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11 days and feeling great!
Today is day 11 - 2 weekends gone by and still haven't had a drink. I'm very happy and feel like a million bucks. It's so hard to understand how come I can feel so great yet know that at one point, I'm going to feel like having a drink, despite knowing how I'll feel afterwards. My skin is looking better, my head is clear, I'm going out for walks again, getting up early and not falling asleep on the couch at 6:00 p.m. I pray that this feeling goes on forever but know that I have to deal with this one day at a time. Today is great! Thanks for listening 
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Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: You know nothing Jon Snow - UK
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Power to you Sunflower!! I am on day 15 and feel exactly the same, out swimming and doing stuff for a change, looking and feeling better. Like you also I know I am gonna have a few tough times ahead, but that day is not today! Life is great sober
Keep up the good work you've done fantastic so far! xx
Keep up the good work you've done fantastic so far! xx
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Join Date: Mar 2014
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Just because you will at some point want to have a drink, doesn't mean you have to do it.
It's a thought. It comes to everyone who quits drinking. In order to stay quit, don't listen to those thoughts. Stay busy, continue to commit to a healthy life and make it happen.
I don't drink. No matter what.
It's a thought. It comes to everyone who quits drinking. In order to stay quit, don't listen to those thoughts. Stay busy, continue to commit to a healthy life and make it happen.
I don't drink. No matter what.
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Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Lakeside, Arizona
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The quote in my signature talks about this:
"the first days are the hardest days, don't worry any more
BUT if life looks like easy street there is danger at your door!"
The complacency really gives the AV strength.
"the first days are the hardest days, don't worry any more
BUT if life looks like easy street there is danger at your door!"
The complacency really gives the AV strength.
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Atlanta
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Good report. I experienced mostly pink clouds (still do) through my early recovery; I also learned a dedicated program to work when the not so pink happened.
Best to you- everything is better sober the way I see it!
Best to you- everything is better sober the way I see it!
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I don't know if "fighting it" is how I would describe it. If I fight something that means I think I have some control over when it shows up or that it is somehow a bad thing. A drinking thought just is. It means nothing.
When I get drinking thoughts, I say, "Hm. A drinking thought. I don't drink."
The thoughts are going to come. I drank for years. Every day at midday o'clock...every celebration, every summer day, every time I was mad, glad, sad or bad.
No sense trying to control what thoughts pop into my head. I get all kinds of weird thoughts. Sometimes for no reason I'll remember something that happened decades ago or when I was a kid. I can choose to continue to think about that or choose to change that thought to something else. It's a skill worth learning.
When I get drinking thoughts, I say, "Hm. A drinking thought. I don't drink."
The thoughts are going to come. I drank for years. Every day at midday o'clock...every celebration, every summer day, every time I was mad, glad, sad or bad.
No sense trying to control what thoughts pop into my head. I get all kinds of weird thoughts. Sometimes for no reason I'll remember something that happened decades ago or when I was a kid. I can choose to continue to think about that or choose to change that thought to something else. It's a skill worth learning.
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