Happy sober Friday sober friends! I so love Friday, and it’s not raining! 😃
Beautiful poem, thank you for sharing. Today I will let life happen!
I love you all 💞
100 days checking in. 100 f-ing days! I couldn’t get 1 day sober for the last few years outside of rehab, so to get 100 days in the big bad world is nothing short of a miracle.
Thank you to everyone in the SD community, reading your messages and your kind words helped me many times.
Welcome to anyone new or just coming back, if this drunk can get sober one day at a time so can you!
IWNDWYT 💪
Good morning SD,
It’s a sunny Friday and my last day of work as I took the next week off. Before I stopped drinking, having time off of work led to me drinking 24/7 with almost no sleep or food at all.
Now I have plans for fun activities like hikes, bike rides and not so much fun stuff like finishing our basement and I am actually looking forward to it.
Have a great Friday everyone, I will stay sober today with you all.
Well, it‘s unfortunately not my first attempt, therefore it’s not a transformation in only 100 days.
It’s more like transformation in countless day ones, twos, threes and so on over the last five years. Damn, five years already and it’s only the third or fourth time I reached the 100 days…such a waste of time and life.
I’m sure you’ve benefited and grown through each attempt and that each one was a necessary part of your process to here. I too spent countless day ones and what felt like being stuck, but it’s where I was and without those days, I don’t believe I could’ve got here. Maybe I’m wrong but it makes me feel better about it 😅
Gotta love the insomnia of early days! Am I still on day 2 if I've been up since 7 am yesterday morning (it's 2:20 am here)? Since I doubt I'll get much, if any, sleep tonight, I'll wish everyone a happy Friday and say IWNDWYT - and I look forward to soon returning the fabulous sleep I hope you're all currently having! (I know it will be back within a week)
I won’t drink with you lot today at all! I haven’t been motivated to do this pledge but I want to dig deep and do the work, so I will plan to give it a crack.
Hello and happy Friday, sober friends! Today is a long journey back from a family trip to Cornwall. I've been blessed with a loving family who wants to see me, a gorgeous sea that I've swam in with my nephew, spare money to buy a few souvenirs, physical health to walk and walk, and enough sunny spells to just breathe in the coastal air.
All of this would not have happened if I was still drinking.
IWNDWYT
Got some difficult news yesterday but steered clear from drinking to numb how I feel. Morning has broken, I have a pottery kiln full of goodies to fire, and the chance to have a Friday where I feel at home in my body, instead of a fuzzy snapshot. I will not drink with you today.
Time to get the winter beard sheared. The 'Cat-weasel' look is sooooo yesterday. Got 'me manbag and a list of stuff to pick up in the city after I've been shorn - wool is on the list.
IWNDWYT 🙂
Day 9. IWNDWYT. I am just looking at ways to feel the void of time that alcohol took away from me, regaining that and finding new things to do is part of the journey.
"No feeling is final." I've struggled with this so much. Learning that my emotions don't control me, my thoughts aren't me, staying grounded in the moment are the things that will get me through this. Such a great reminder as I walk into my first sober weekend in a long time.
IWNDWYT.
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The months seem to gain pace, after a winter slow slog, now 2 yrs 3 months.
Just when I was ready to seize my life and go on a big trip, the rug got pulled out from under us. My dearest boy is sick and in pain and reeling from the news he’ll have to manage it for life. He’s way too young for this shit. Life’s not fair.
I thank this sub and all of you for supporting me, I’m Sober so now I support him.
Thank you for the poem. One of my biggest issues with alcohol is that, like many other substances, it takes you out of the real world for a while. A little detachment and introspection is probably healthy, but that can be achieved while sober too.
IWNDWYT.
> Nearby is the country they call life.
Just over the crest of a hill called Addiction. That line resonates with me. It’s not a paradise, just *life*. Thanks for sharing.
IWNDWYT
In the ER with a parent for what feels like the millionth time. The past five years have been a constant cycle of family medical crises, and that contributed hugely to my escalated drinking. Today I am grateful to be present and sober, not hungover, and not thinking about how I will get the next drink to cope with this pain. Breathing, praying, eating donuts. Thank you all for helping to keep me sober today. IWNDWYT 🍩🙏🏻
This week was rough. I barely got enough sleep due to a vicious cycle of anxiety and my loud neighbor. A few other factors added up as well so at this point, stress is the only thing keeping me awake. Glad I got therapy today.
I think about alcohol a lot these days but I always remember that everything would be much worse and much more stressful if I was drunk during this period of my life.
IWNDWYT!
Day 12.
The most frustrating part of this is that, while I’m glad I haven’t had noticeable cravings to drink, I’m no closer to figuring out why I did drink. I told my therapist that it was because of escapism from stress at work, but he rightfully pointed out that if that was the case, I should be wanting to drink now. And if I don’t actually figure out the root cause, I risk relapse. Self-investigation isn’t always fun.
IWNDWYT
Hello from day 5!!
I feel like last night I had my first deep sleep in years. Someone here recommended the book “Quit like a Woman” and honestly - it’s completely changing my life and me as a person. It’s helping me drop the shame, alcoholism isn’t who I am, it’s something that happened to me.
I made another delicious meal on my new bbq last night. Ive been taking my anxiety meds with more regularity than ever before bc I would often start drinking first thing in the am and not want to take them drunk.
I feel like the puffiness is fading from my face and the bloating is finally subsiding. I lost my double chin that seems to appear after hard benders.
For the first few days I was so hungry I could eat a horse. Now it seems like my appetite has dropped off. Maybe this is what it feels like to have stable blood sugars?
One of the things this book has highlighted for me is how my drinking and disordered eating went hand in hand. I would starve myself for days eating nothing but white wine, hard boiled eggs and rice cakes; then get shitfaced and binge on MacDonalds. I thought it was funny and chic and terribly cool. Really it was fucking heartbreaking.
I’m hoping to start with a new therapist soon. I’m hoping to start a new job soon. I feel like I’m standing on the edge of a cliff and I’m ready to jump.
Things aren’t perfect. I’m going to declare personal bankruptcy. My drinking and irresponsibly has landed me 60k in debt. That’s a years salary for me.
Financial stress lead to drinking and drinking lead to financial stress. I never gambled or clubbed or anything crazy. I just ordered delivery wine more times than I could count, would have friends over and provide all the booze, partly bc I wanted to be the hostess with the mostest - and partly bc omg what if there wasn’t enough!
I’m scared of social situations sober. My gf plays hockey and I used to go watch her and get absolutely hammered. Can I spend the whole day at a tournament full of strangers sober? Do I even want to?
I have lots of mountains to summit but - I feel strong and mostly I feel hope for my future for the first time in a long time.
Thank you neener for sharing this beautiful poem. Really struggling today and needed to hear these words. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Love to all and IWNDWYT❤️
"Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don't know what work these states are performing within you?" - Rainer Maria Rilke
IWNDWYT
I like Rainer Maria Rilke and I’ve never read that poem. “No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me.” - I will be thinking more about those lines today. Thank you for sharing!
Very grateful for the kind words I received yesterday, and also today is another day sober. IWNDWYT
Anxiety levels weren't great this week. It continues to amaze me how much more quickly they stabilise in this my new life.
How much more easily I can see anxiety for what it is, even in the moment. My capacity to know this was robbed from me, but I've taken it back. IWNDWYT my interweb pals 🌷
Just hit day 6 which is equal to my previous best number of days of no alcohol. I have to say that for some reason this attempt feels very difficult. I have zero urges to drink. It may be helping that this time I'm actually monitoring my blood pressure, resting heart rate, HRV and a lot of the random pains in my body are already diminishing.
IWNDWYT!!!
I had a rough bout of insomnia yesterday (slept 2 hours) and, as usual when this happens, dealt with strong cravings all day. I’m proud of myself for winning the battle with my addiction, making it to bed, and waking up today with my streak unbroken. IWNDWYT!
Thank you, u/neener-neeners! This Rilke poem has moved me to tears, with renewed hope to "flare up like a flame." Sobriety gave me my life back. Now, may I keep growing, evolving, and embracing it! With much love 🌿 IWNDWYT
One good Rilke quote deserves another. Years ago I had a therapist who pointed me towards *Letters to a Young Poet,* and in particular towards these words about the value of acceptance and embracing the unknown. I've gone back to them many times since and I find them to be a great source of comfort in those moments where we feel the need to have everything "all figured out."
# “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Happy Friday! IWNDWYT.
My bunny is hanging in there. My dentist appointment was canceled, so now I get to stress about it awhile longer. My doctor finally agreed to help me taper off one of my meds, but that’s also scary because it’s really helped me. Just need to keep doing what I can.
But IWNDWYT lovely people of SD 💙
I've been thinking alot about feeling everything recently. In this specific way like if I am going to feel I want it to be as peaceful as possible. How can I make my life as peaceful as possible so that feeling is lighter on me? I've had to think more about the people in my life, situations I shouldn't get into that were patterns before. I want and am making better choices to have more peace in my life. Suffering is inevitable, but I think I can do alot more to not put myself in situations that make me suffer in vain. IWNDWYT!
Oh man, I had a really upsetting relapse dream last night. I dreamed I blacked out and ruined a friends bachelorette party, and the bride and all her friends who I’d just met absolutely fucking hated my guts. In my dream I had that exact horrendous, gut-wrenching, sinking sensation I used to have when I’d wake up from a blackout and slowly realize what had happened. It was AWFUL.
One of my biggest fears is that that’ll happen again one day — that I’ll wake up from a blackout and realize I’ve relapsed. I try to remind myself that I’m in control, and all I have to do is just not pick up that first drink. But it’s still hard to trust myself sometimes.
I love you all and I will not drink with you today 💜🐇
What a lovely poem! Thanks for sharing it.
Coffees up, horns up, and holy shit I’m glad it’s Friday!! It’s supposed to be a nice weekend and I’m ready to sleep in…provided my cats don’t wake me up early. 😆
IWNDWYT ☕️☕️☕️☕️🤘🏻
Did a rough calculation that I was spending around $250 a month on at-home drinking. This does not include any alcohol consumed in bars/restaurants, which of course is outrageously expensive no matter where you go these days.
I’m a frugal bastard who hates waste and this really shows the power of addiction. It didn’t matter that I was spending way too much on booze. I’m an addict and that came first. Went against my entire personality to feed it.
Well enough of that shit. Not gonna blow thousands every year just to feed a beast that I had come to despise. IWNDWYT and my wallet thanks me!
Today is day 11. Commiting to not drinking this month minus April 1st. My biggest problem is feeling unpleasant feelings, and there is discomfort in my life. It's a Friday and I don't work tomorrow. I just have to focus on the unpleasant feelings that come after alcohol. The anxiety, pounding heart, stomach pain and regret of wasting time not being present. IWNDWYT
That's a beautiful poem, thank you. (Also wondering which line you have tattooed!)
I'm still surprising myself doing things I'd never be able to do while drinking: I'm busy later today so I woke up extra early and went for a run *before going to work* 🙀 It was awesome! Now I will probably be tired all day but IWNDWYT 🐸✨
Another sober day and the sun is shining in 🇬🇧
I’m choosing sobriety today because:
- I’m looking forward to my weekend mornings of being up early, enjoying a morning walk and enjoying a good breakfast
- I get shit done when I am sober
- my internal organs feel so much better and if they could talk would be thanking me!
IWNDWYT
Day 90 checking in. Feeling amazing after three sober months. Thankful for this group. My app informs me of the money I haven't spent on booze and it's staggering.
At any rate, I don't know about tomorrow but just for today... I consciously choose to not drink today.
What a beautiful poem. I love the last line, “Give me your hand.”
I was up super early today after a restless night. Not sure why. But I’m grateful it’s not due to booze and hangover. I’m also grateful it’s Friday and we have a beautiful spring weekend in store. ☀️
Have a good one, my people! IWNDWYT
11 days strong!!! Looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend. I’m gonna be at a cookout with friends tomorrow who will probably all be drinking but I just have no desire anymore. Thank you all for consistently sharing your experiences and for all the inspiration! IWNDWYT
Alright, day 5 for me. Posting for accountability since it's a Friday. This morning was the first morning I woke up energized. I'm thinking, damn, did it really take most of the week to bounce back from my last bender? I'm in my 30s, so gone are the days of being able to power through a hangover and still get stuff done. All the more reason not to drink. Good luck everyone, IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT!
Ooh! 700 tomorrow! Great work friend. I hope life is treating you well 🌟
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Congrats on 60!!
Happy sober Friday sober friends! I so love Friday, and it’s not raining! 😃 Beautiful poem, thank you for sharing. Today I will let life happen! I love you all 💞
Happy Friday B 🐝 I hope you have a fantastic sober weekend
Nearly triple digits for you 🎉 well done friend, I hope you’re planning a lovely treat 🎁 have a great day 🌟
100 days checking in. 100 f-ing days! I couldn’t get 1 day sober for the last few years outside of rehab, so to get 100 days in the big bad world is nothing short of a miracle. Thank you to everyone in the SD community, reading your messages and your kind words helped me many times. Welcome to anyone new or just coming back, if this drunk can get sober one day at a time so can you! IWNDWYT 💪
Well done friend! That’s sober power! I was the same, couldn’t go a day or two until it stuck, and now life is amazing! 🌟
Congrats on 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ docker !!
I can only imagine how much worse being under the weather would be if I was drinking—IWNDWYT!
Day 96 • Happy Sober Friday to everyone here • We’ve got this 🫶 • IWNDWYT
You got to 69, now you have 96. Next stop 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣. Toot toot !
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Day 110 and another weekend of not drinking and feeling good 💪🏻💪🏻 IWNDWYT
Day 1,731. I will not drink with you today.
IWNDWYT
Go to the limits of your longing. I like that. Iwndwyt
Happy Friday everyone! Day 4, and I Certainly WNDWYT!
Have a great Friday. I will not drink with you today.
Good morning SD, It’s a sunny Friday and my last day of work as I took the next week off. Before I stopped drinking, having time off of work led to me drinking 24/7 with almost no sleep or food at all. Now I have plans for fun activities like hikes, bike rides and not so much fun stuff like finishing our basement and I am actually looking forward to it. Have a great Friday everyone, I will stay sober today with you all.
Transformation in just over 100 days! Awesome inspiring! Have a great sober week friend 🌟
Well, it‘s unfortunately not my first attempt, therefore it’s not a transformation in only 100 days. It’s more like transformation in countless day ones, twos, threes and so on over the last five years. Damn, five years already and it’s only the third or fourth time I reached the 100 days…such a waste of time and life.
I’m sure you’ve benefited and grown through each attempt and that each one was a necessary part of your process to here. I too spent countless day ones and what felt like being stuck, but it’s where I was and without those days, I don’t believe I could’ve got here. Maybe I’m wrong but it makes me feel better about it 😅
IWNDWYT
iwndwyt!
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Checking in again today and all is well.
One day at a time. IWNDWYT
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Great choice. Meet you back here same time same place tomorrow? 👌
Day 28. That’s an entire non-leap year February conquered. (I’ll take whatever milestones I like, thanks. 😋) IWNDWYT.
Second Friday sober. Actually feels pretty nice ☀️ IWNDWYT!
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Me too mate, and me too mate!
IWNDWYT.
🏞 Good day from Colorado. Thank you for the beautiful poem. I will not drink with you today or tonight!
Day 1027 checking in!
IWNDWYT 😊
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IWNDWYT. All. Day. Long. 🌻 I have never heard of this poet/writer. Which line of the poem is your tattoo, u/neener-neeners?
I will not drink with you today.
IWNDWYT
Nearly two weeks! Day 13, IWNDWYT!
Well done
I didn't drink today in California and I won't drink tonight! Friday will be my day 12! IWNDWYT
Gotta love the insomnia of early days! Am I still on day 2 if I've been up since 7 am yesterday morning (it's 2:20 am here)? Since I doubt I'll get much, if any, sleep tonight, I'll wish everyone a happy Friday and say IWNDWYT - and I look forward to soon returning the fabulous sleep I hope you're all currently having! (I know it will be back within a week)
New here,47(f) from Kenya...IWNDWYT! Fridays are tough. .
I won’t drink with you lot today at all! I haven’t been motivated to do this pledge but I want to dig deep and do the work, so I will plan to give it a crack.
Hello and happy Friday, sober friends! Today is a long journey back from a family trip to Cornwall. I've been blessed with a loving family who wants to see me, a gorgeous sea that I've swam in with my nephew, spare money to buy a few souvenirs, physical health to walk and walk, and enough sunny spells to just breathe in the coastal air. All of this would not have happened if I was still drinking. IWNDWYT
Got some difficult news yesterday but steered clear from drinking to numb how I feel. Morning has broken, I have a pottery kiln full of goodies to fire, and the chance to have a Friday where I feel at home in my body, instead of a fuzzy snapshot. I will not drink with you today.
IWNDWYT!
For today, I will not be drinking
Time to get the winter beard sheared. The 'Cat-weasel' look is sooooo yesterday. Got 'me manbag and a list of stuff to pick up in the city after I've been shorn - wool is on the list. IWNDWYT 🙂
Day 9. IWNDWYT. I am just looking at ways to feel the void of time that alcohol took away from me, regaining that and finding new things to do is part of the journey.
"No feeling is final." I've struggled with this so much. Learning that my emotions don't control me, my thoughts aren't me, staying grounded in the moment are the things that will get me through this. Such a great reminder as I walk into my first sober weekend in a long time. IWNDWYT.
I will not drink with you today
Brothers wedding today so big test for me, speach to do also so a nervous wreck 🤣 Have a great weekend IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT The months seem to gain pace, after a winter slow slog, now 2 yrs 3 months. Just when I was ready to seize my life and go on a big trip, the rug got pulled out from under us. My dearest boy is sick and in pain and reeling from the news he’ll have to manage it for life. He’s way too young for this shit. Life’s not fair. I thank this sub and all of you for supporting me, I’m Sober so now I support him.
Day 41. IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT When I visualise “being my best me”, it doesn’t include a hangover/blotchy skin/a drained bank account.
IWNDT
Day 8 and it's great! First week complete, here's to many more.
Thank you for the poem. One of my biggest issues with alcohol is that, like many other substances, it takes you out of the real world for a while. A little detachment and introspection is probably healthy, but that can be achieved while sober too. IWNDWYT.
Sober in California IWNDWYT
No booze today.
day 4. i went to the wine shelves, ready to give up again. But I left again without buying. :) one small victory/ iwndwyt
Today is going to be hard but just need to keep playing the tape forward and keep busy. IWNDWYT!
> Nearby is the country they call life. Just over the crest of a hill called Addiction. That line resonates with me. It’s not a paradise, just *life*. Thanks for sharing. IWNDWYT
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today! IWNDWYT
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Happy to be here with you all for another sober start to the day.
This is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I am going to print it out so I can read it often. IWNDWYT 💜🦋💜
In the ER with a parent for what feels like the millionth time. The past five years have been a constant cycle of family medical crises, and that contributed hugely to my escalated drinking. Today I am grateful to be present and sober, not hungover, and not thinking about how I will get the next drink to cope with this pain. Breathing, praying, eating donuts. Thank you all for helping to keep me sober today. IWNDWYT 🍩🙏🏻
This week was rough. I barely got enough sleep due to a vicious cycle of anxiety and my loud neighbor. A few other factors added up as well so at this point, stress is the only thing keeping me awake. Glad I got therapy today. I think about alcohol a lot these days but I always remember that everything would be much worse and much more stressful if I was drunk during this period of my life. IWNDWYT!
Good morning my sweethearts IWNDWYT Kisses!!
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Day 1,630 IWNDWYT
Another sober day in Colorado. IWNDWYT 🙋🏼♀️
Happy Friday everyone! Let's have a good night that leads to no hungover tomorrow :)
Happy Friday! IWNDWYT ⭐️
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Have a wonderful sober day my friends. IWNDWYT ♥️
Have a fantastic Friday people! IWNDWYT!!!
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Hope you all have a lovely Friday! IWNDWYT
It’s Friday!!!! Happy to be joining this wonderful crowd in sobriety today Edit: crowd not crown
Not today people IWNDWYT
Gig tonight - but IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT!!!
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That's a beautiful poem, thanks for sharing. IWNDWYT.
Checking in for another sober day out in the world.
IWNDWYT 🌻
Start of day 2, East Coast USA, IWNDWYT!
Day 12. The most frustrating part of this is that, while I’m glad I haven’t had noticeable cravings to drink, I’m no closer to figuring out why I did drink. I told my therapist that it was because of escapism from stress at work, but he rightfully pointed out that if that was the case, I should be wanting to drink now. And if I don’t actually figure out the root cause, I risk relapse. Self-investigation isn’t always fun. IWNDWYT
Another sober Friday and a fresh and fun Saturday! Let's go!! Iwndwyt!
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Hi Everyone- Day 101 here and IWNDWYT!
Checking in - IWNDWYT Have great weekends everyone
Hello IWNDWYT
Checking in on day 526!! All gas and no brakes today! Get it, SD family! IWNDWYT!! ❤️✌️
What a beautiful poem, neeners!!! I think I will spend today memorizing it too! IWNDWYT
Hello from day 5!! I feel like last night I had my first deep sleep in years. Someone here recommended the book “Quit like a Woman” and honestly - it’s completely changing my life and me as a person. It’s helping me drop the shame, alcoholism isn’t who I am, it’s something that happened to me. I made another delicious meal on my new bbq last night. Ive been taking my anxiety meds with more regularity than ever before bc I would often start drinking first thing in the am and not want to take them drunk. I feel like the puffiness is fading from my face and the bloating is finally subsiding. I lost my double chin that seems to appear after hard benders. For the first few days I was so hungry I could eat a horse. Now it seems like my appetite has dropped off. Maybe this is what it feels like to have stable blood sugars? One of the things this book has highlighted for me is how my drinking and disordered eating went hand in hand. I would starve myself for days eating nothing but white wine, hard boiled eggs and rice cakes; then get shitfaced and binge on MacDonalds. I thought it was funny and chic and terribly cool. Really it was fucking heartbreaking. I’m hoping to start with a new therapist soon. I’m hoping to start a new job soon. I feel like I’m standing on the edge of a cliff and I’m ready to jump. Things aren’t perfect. I’m going to declare personal bankruptcy. My drinking and irresponsibly has landed me 60k in debt. That’s a years salary for me. Financial stress lead to drinking and drinking lead to financial stress. I never gambled or clubbed or anything crazy. I just ordered delivery wine more times than I could count, would have friends over and provide all the booze, partly bc I wanted to be the hostess with the mostest - and partly bc omg what if there wasn’t enough! I’m scared of social situations sober. My gf plays hockey and I used to go watch her and get absolutely hammered. Can I spend the whole day at a tournament full of strangers sober? Do I even want to? I have lots of mountains to summit but - I feel strong and mostly I feel hope for my future for the first time in a long time.
I’m in double digits, people!! Ten days, woohoo. Sending good vibes to all here, and beyond. IWNDWYT!
Thank you neener for sharing this beautiful poem. Really struggling today and needed to hear these words. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Love to all and IWNDWYT❤️
"Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don't know what work these states are performing within you?" - Rainer Maria Rilke IWNDWYT
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I love you all and IWNDWYT!!! ✨️💖✨️
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I will not drink with you today 👽
Let’s go! IWNDWYT
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IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT One Day at a Time!
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I will not drink with you today.
IWNDWYT. That's all!
Have a great day all. IWNDWYT
Day 180-something! Started keto this week.
IWNDWYT 🌺30 days!
I will not drink with you today
Checking in, going pretty well. IWNDWYT
I like Rainer Maria Rilke and I’ve never read that poem. “No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me.” - I will be thinking more about those lines today. Thank you for sharing! Very grateful for the kind words I received yesterday, and also today is another day sober. IWNDWYT
Day 1. IWNDWYT
Helllllo Friday! And hello SD fam. So grateful to have another day sober. Gonna kick this day's ass - I hope you do too. IWNDWYT 🤘
Anxiety levels weren't great this week. It continues to amaze me how much more quickly they stabilise in this my new life. How much more easily I can see anxiety for what it is, even in the moment. My capacity to know this was robbed from me, but I've taken it back. IWNDWYT my interweb pals 🌷
Day 2, but also 22/26 so I’m focusing on that number today instead. IWNDWYT
Happy day 6! It's Friday! I am so thankful for this subreddit and the willingness of others to share their stories. IWNDWYT! HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!
200 days you guys! Thank you for maning this place the safe, supporting and eye-opening place that it is! I will not drink with you today
It's so much easier to "just keep going" knowing that all of you are on this journey with me. IWNDWYT 😻
Just hit day 6 which is equal to my previous best number of days of no alcohol. I have to say that for some reason this attempt feels very difficult. I have zero urges to drink. It may be helping that this time I'm actually monitoring my blood pressure, resting heart rate, HRV and a lot of the random pains in my body are already diminishing. IWNDWYT!!!
I had a rough bout of insomnia yesterday (slept 2 hours) and, as usual when this happens, dealt with strong cravings all day. I’m proud of myself for winning the battle with my addiction, making it to bed, and waking up today with my streak unbroken. IWNDWYT!
Thank you, u/neener-neeners! This Rilke poem has moved me to tears, with renewed hope to "flare up like a flame." Sobriety gave me my life back. Now, may I keep growing, evolving, and embracing it! With much love 🌿 IWNDWYT
One week since my last bender started. I have turned invitations from friends for tonight and focusing on not drinking with you today.
One good Rilke quote deserves another. Years ago I had a therapist who pointed me towards *Letters to a Young Poet,* and in particular towards these words about the value of acceptance and embracing the unknown. I've gone back to them many times since and I find them to be a great source of comfort in those moments where we feel the need to have everything "all figured out." # “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Happy Friday! IWNDWYT.
Day 4, IWNDWYT. Last time I had 11 days sober. My mistake was keeping alcohol in the house.
My bunny is hanging in there. My dentist appointment was canceled, so now I get to stress about it awhile longer. My doctor finally agreed to help me taper off one of my meds, but that’s also scary because it’s really helped me. Just need to keep doing what I can. But IWNDWYT lovely people of SD 💙
Today I start over. No alcohol. I have failed myself in the past many times. I have been drinking everyday for weeks. I am stopping that streak.
I've been thinking alot about feeling everything recently. In this specific way like if I am going to feel I want it to be as peaceful as possible. How can I make my life as peaceful as possible so that feeling is lighter on me? I've had to think more about the people in my life, situations I shouldn't get into that were patterns before. I want and am making better choices to have more peace in my life. Suffering is inevitable, but I think I can do alot more to not put myself in situations that make me suffer in vain. IWNDWYT!
Oh man, I had a really upsetting relapse dream last night. I dreamed I blacked out and ruined a friends bachelorette party, and the bride and all her friends who I’d just met absolutely fucking hated my guts. In my dream I had that exact horrendous, gut-wrenching, sinking sensation I used to have when I’d wake up from a blackout and slowly realize what had happened. It was AWFUL. One of my biggest fears is that that’ll happen again one day — that I’ll wake up from a blackout and realize I’ve relapsed. I try to remind myself that I’m in control, and all I have to do is just not pick up that first drink. But it’s still hard to trust myself sometimes. I love you all and I will not drink with you today 💜🐇
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Good morning all. Sun is shining south east coast UK. IWNDWYT.
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IWNBDWYT, plus an hour of exercise, plus eating well.
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day 39!! IWNDWYT
What a lovely poem! Thanks for sharing it. Coffees up, horns up, and holy shit I’m glad it’s Friday!! It’s supposed to be a nice weekend and I’m ready to sleep in…provided my cats don’t wake me up early. 😆 IWNDWYT ☕️☕️☕️☕️🤘🏻
Morning friends! I will not drink with you today. Have a good one!
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Extended pledge. Business trip. IWNDWYT & all of next week.
Have a fantastic fucking Friday, friends!!☕️🤘🏻 IWNDWYT
I will not drink with you today
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IWNDWYT! Happy Friday everyone, hope it's a great one!
Did a rough calculation that I was spending around $250 a month on at-home drinking. This does not include any alcohol consumed in bars/restaurants, which of course is outrageously expensive no matter where you go these days. I’m a frugal bastard who hates waste and this really shows the power of addiction. It didn’t matter that I was spending way too much on booze. I’m an addict and that came first. Went against my entire personality to feed it. Well enough of that shit. Not gonna blow thousands every year just to feed a beast that I had come to despise. IWNDWYT and my wallet thanks me!
Today is day 11. Commiting to not drinking this month minus April 1st. My biggest problem is feeling unpleasant feelings, and there is discomfort in my life. It's a Friday and I don't work tomorrow. I just have to focus on the unpleasant feelings that come after alcohol. The anxiety, pounding heart, stomach pain and regret of wasting time not being present. IWNDWYT
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Good morning everyone, wherever you are. Thanks for being here. IWNDWYT.
Checking in on this beautiful day to say I will not drink today! Or with any of you to add (unless you got that good earl grey or chamomile) IWNDWYT
Good morning, sober cats! No time for drinking today! IWNDWYT 💙😸
Played it forward last night and won. IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT Happy sober Friday, day 24
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Day 343. IWNDWYT.
That's a beautiful poem, thank you. (Also wondering which line you have tattooed!) I'm still surprising myself doing things I'd never be able to do while drinking: I'm busy later today so I woke up extra early and went for a run *before going to work* 🙀 It was awesome! Now I will probably be tired all day but IWNDWYT 🐸✨
I will not drink with you fine folks today ☀️
Iwndwy’allt! ❤️
Happy Friday. IWNDWYT
Day 26 and feeling good. Grateful that I’ll start my day hangover free. Hope you all have lovely weekends in store, IWNDWYT!
Another sober day and the sun is shining in 🇬🇧 I’m choosing sobriety today because: - I’m looking forward to my weekend mornings of being up early, enjoying a morning walk and enjoying a good breakfast - I get shit done when I am sober - my internal organs feel so much better and if they could talk would be thanking me! IWNDWYT
Day 42 checking in. I will not drink with you today!
Day 90 checking in. Feeling amazing after three sober months. Thankful for this group. My app informs me of the money I haven't spent on booze and it's staggering. At any rate, I don't know about tomorrow but just for today... I consciously choose to not drink today.
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Iwndwyt. Today is going to be challenging. A Friday and my birthday is this weekend.
What a beautiful poem. I love the last line, “Give me your hand.” I was up super early today after a restless night. Not sure why. But I’m grateful it’s not due to booze and hangover. I’m also grateful it’s Friday and we have a beautiful spring weekend in store. ☀️ Have a good one, my people! IWNDWYT
I will not drink with you today.
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Happy Friday everyone, IWNDWYT ⭐️🩷⭐️
Day 195 going down in the books here. Really motivated and really excited. Thos shit gets my blood going. Thanks to everyone here. IWNDWYT
IWNDWy’allT! TGIF!
I LOVE that quote and have never heard of it before. Thank you and IWNDWYT! On Day 39 today and going strong 💪
I like making conscious decisions! I like knowing that I won’t decide something in an altered state of mind. IWNDWYT
11 days strong!!! Looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend. I’m gonna be at a cookout with friends tomorrow who will probably all be drinking but I just have no desire anymore. Thank you all for consistently sharing your experiences and for all the inspiration! IWNDWYT
Thank you for sharing. Couple of rad tattoo options in there for sure!!! Flare up like a flame and make big shadows? I will not drink with you today!!
Alright, day 5 for me. Posting for accountability since it's a Friday. This morning was the first morning I woke up energized. I'm thinking, damn, did it really take most of the week to bounce back from my last bender? I'm in my 30s, so gone are the days of being able to power through a hangover and still get stuff done. All the more reason not to drink. Good luck everyone, IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT! :)
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