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Just checking in.
I have been reading most days and have posted in a few other areas here.
Susan, good to hear you are taking it one day at a time and back here too. I care about how you are.
I found that one of the things that has helped me is to change my routine a bit in the evenings. If a thought of oh have a glass comes to me, I thought about what I was doing at the time. You know, like if you talk on the telephone and you smoke cigarettes you grab a pack and a lighter before you answer etc. Like what went hand in hand with that one drink. Then I would go do something else instead. I plan things now. If loneliness strikes, I call someone or work on a project. Go somewhere outside if it's early. Plan something for the morning that I really want to do and want to wake up for. That sort of thing. Distractions I suppose.
I am making and shopping for menus and sticking to them (healthy stuff). I am exercising in a way I can do so I don't quit lol. I am keeping an eye on the clock and trying to go to bed at a decent hour.
I am pursuing things I always wanted to do but let slide.
Yes, I have my down moments. It's all not pollyana and being up.
I am working through those moments. A bit like surfing a wave, until it washes ashore and breaks. May be down but then it's up but in a gentler movement than before.
It feels good to be making choices (ones that are good for me).
Smile even if you don't feel like it. (this is along the lines of that quote "fake it until you make it"...i was reading a book recently that had that line in it a lot and funny thing is not too long later you do smile spontaneously about something!
Coming here and reading your posts has helped immeasurably!
And I found the spiritual site and the Christian one and more of the others and all of the sites here are inspiring.
Thank you!
One moment at a time. One day at a time. Live in the present.
Greenmeadow
I have been reading most days and have posted in a few other areas here.
Susan, good to hear you are taking it one day at a time and back here too. I care about how you are.
I found that one of the things that has helped me is to change my routine a bit in the evenings. If a thought of oh have a glass comes to me, I thought about what I was doing at the time. You know, like if you talk on the telephone and you smoke cigarettes you grab a pack and a lighter before you answer etc. Like what went hand in hand with that one drink. Then I would go do something else instead. I plan things now. If loneliness strikes, I call someone or work on a project. Go somewhere outside if it's early. Plan something for the morning that I really want to do and want to wake up for. That sort of thing. Distractions I suppose.
I am making and shopping for menus and sticking to them (healthy stuff). I am exercising in a way I can do so I don't quit lol. I am keeping an eye on the clock and trying to go to bed at a decent hour.
I am pursuing things I always wanted to do but let slide.
Yes, I have my down moments. It's all not pollyana and being up.
I am working through those moments. A bit like surfing a wave, until it washes ashore and breaks. May be down but then it's up but in a gentler movement than before.
It feels good to be making choices (ones that are good for me).
Smile even if you don't feel like it. (this is along the lines of that quote "fake it until you make it"...i was reading a book recently that had that line in it a lot and funny thing is not too long later you do smile spontaneously about something!
Coming here and reading your posts has helped immeasurably!
And I found the spiritual site and the Christian one and more of the others and all of the sites here are inspiring.
Thank you!
One moment at a time. One day at a time. Live in the present.
Greenmeadow
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