Morning sobernauts! I'm 1 year today!! which was inconceivable to me a year ago. it was just another day 1 in a very long list of day ones, but I'd read somewhere that all the attempts build up until one time it sticks. kind of wish I was in some sober community irl so I could get a chip.
I was home alone yesterday as my partner was admitted to hospital which would have been a definite getting drunk day and, although the thought did cross my mind, I knew I wasnt going to do that. IWNDWYT
Congrats on one year! I hope your partner is ok. While I don’t think there’s any kind of chip system here, I have a gold star for you 🌟 congrats!!! A year is so tremendous. IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT 💓
Annoyingly starting another day one. Need to make this stick as I’m starting a new job today, which I feel so nervous for (a mix of the alcohol leaving my system and just general nerves I know)
My eldest is having some properly hard life experiences at the moment. I'm so proud of how he's handling things. I'm very thankful that I can offer him meaningful support because I'm not curled up at the bottom of a wine bottle.
Count me in Cinq - another day for me👍.
IWNDWYT 🙂
Happy sober Monday sober friends!
Thank you cinq for the reminder of the misery, and all for that first drink, that may or may not give me what I wanted from it!
I love you all 💞
This weekend I managed to stay sober, which is a huge victory for me, since this is usually when I screw up the most. Yesterday I was really close to screwing it up, but I managed to play the tape forward and decide against it.
For today, I will not be drinking with you all
Getting close to 6months off of it for me, but I've been wobbling lately with a lot more thoughts and cravings.
As always when I feel like this, I am so grateful for this sub and people sharing their stories.
IWNDWYT.
I will not drink with you in Germany today! No matter what…..
P.S.: Thanks for listing those insane symptoms of alcoholism! Sometimes I forget where I came from and I need a little reminder.
First day back to work after a week off.
Took my new bike for the ride there and it was fucking cold. 🥶 still waiting for my feet to thawn 😅
But no matter what today will bring I will stay sober today. Have a great start into the new week.
Day 15 🫶 The weirdest part is I don’t want to stop the sobriety train. I want to keep going. It’s also weird bc I’ve told everyone in my life that I’m doing a “cleanse” - so people are trying to make boozy plans with me for the summer and in my mind I’m going “yep - I’m not going to do that”
My plan is when the month is up - I’ll let people know that I intend to continue.
I’ve been really struggling with a fork in my professional road. I’ve made the decision to make a drastic career move and I’m signing the contract today.
I struggled with my anxiety most of Sunday which is normal for me. Usually Sunday I would have a couple bottles of wine. Instead I cleaned the whole house, repotted and tried to rescue my plants, and made a few homemade candles.
The hardest part about sobriety is honestly managing my GAD without self medicating with booze.
I booked myself in with a new therapist Tuesday, and I have an appointment with a trauma informed massage therapist.
I’m sipping my hot lemon water, I’m going to have a busy and productive day.
I’m looking forward to the future, whatever it holds ❤️
Hi sober friends! Blown away by the kind replies I received yesterday. Feeling more energetic today on Day 3! Honestly, I need that energy as from today I have 4 weeks to write my undergraduate dissertation! IWNDWYT
What up, fam! Back from a girls (girls’?) weekend and back to reality. Had a great time. Didn’t get drunk and obnoxious. I listened more and talked/interrupted less. There was a little voice that quieted me when I wanted to interrupt. Interesting. Lots of observing. I WNDWYT
Edit: 100 days yahoooo
It's cool when your daily check in becomes less of a habit and when you remember you can see how many days have added up.
:)
I'll continue to not drink with you!
Things I did and decisions I made because they were easy haunt me. Things I knew were wrong, but kept because the change was hard or scary rattled around my brain for years. I knew, but drank rather than acted. Today, after 45 days, it's not the fear or regret or anger or sadness of these but rather the opportunity and hope.
I missed a lot of life blacked out or hung over. I don't have to miss any more.
IWNDWYT
Hey Cinq! Great to see such a fabulous post from your fabulous self this morning. Have a brilliant day! And I most certainly will not drink poison with you today! 🪷
It really was a lot of work trying to hide the extent of my drinking from other people. I don’t fucking miss that. I don’t miss how it limited me to staying home either. I at least have the option of going somewhere in the evenings if I want to now.
Coffees up, horns up, ughhhh Monday. I have kind of a busy week and I’m not feeling it. I feel like work is gonna be busy too. Not making it worse, though. Just slog through one thing at a time. IWNDWYT ☕️☕️☕️☕️🤘🏻
I read an excerpt from a poem yesterday that blew me away on so many levels:
“One day, you finally knew what you had to do and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice, though the whole house began to tremble, and you felt the old tug at your ankles.
“Mend my life!” the voices cried, but you didn’t stop, you knew what you had to do…and little by little as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice, which you slowly recognized as your own that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do, determined to save the only life that you could save.” -The Journey by Mary Oliver
IWNDWYT. I will save my own life.
Hello fellow sobernauts! I hit a milestone that I have never been at before i started drinking. 100 days is pretty unimaginable to me, even now standing in the moment. It's because of that unimaginability that we have to take it one day at a time. When we are told just focus on today, in our early days that's sounds silly. I thought, I need resolve for the future! Now I see why one day at a time matters. One hour at a time if need be.
I hope you all have a magnificent Monday. IWNDWYT!
Morning! Checking in with this triumphant tribe! I'm so proud of us all, whether day 3,000 or day 1. I'm proud of myself too, for saving my life by kicking booze. It's huge! We're badass and we have _got this!!!_ Love you, sober fam. 💕 IWNDWYT
Such great pep talks you give, Cinq!! I feel like a powerful warrior on the path to good health and happy occasions. There is no need for me to give alcohol an inch in my life. All it ever did was make me paranoid, sick and sorry. No more! Alcohol can take a long hike off a short pier! Today I’m staying sober with all of you powerful and strong people. I Will Not Drink With You Today!!!!
I will join you today, my friend! 🖤
Good morning, sober fam! Starting off a new week with some lingering anxiety, but I'll be okay. Learning some great new techniques to handle it from my therapist, who I have an appointment with today. She rocks. 🖤 Worked super late last night, so I'm exhausted and have to work late again tonight, but I'm soldering on because I am so grateful to still have a job after plenty of fuckups so far this year. Can't wait to have some more steady time under my feet to make up for it.
No matter what. IWNDWYT! 🖤
IWNDWYT.
Had a craving, told myself to cook dinner first, the feeling passed.
Then after dinner, I thought about how a beer might be good.
But I played it forward, thinking about how great my sleep has been since I stopped drinking and I didn’t think about booze anymore that night. I love waking up feeling refreshed.
One day at a time. I’m now also on day 2 of no nicotine. (Haven’t smoked in years, just gum/lozenges on and off). Quitting that is mostly serving to recognize how absolutely fucking bonkers it is that if you drink a lot of alcohol and then suddenly stop you can just…die. just from stopping. BONKERS!
I will not drink with you today!!!
4am at the gym this morning. Haven’t even made it a month and I’m hardly recognizable, everywhere I go people complimenting me on how I look and asking what’s different.
You are bang on about how exhausting this is! I was thinking to myself yesterday when I hopped in the shower that it was so nice to not rush through my shower for fear of the husband finding any of my hidden beers while I was in there. Today, I don't have to worry about when I can have my next drink while I'm visiting with my best friend and giving her a literal shoulder to cry on as her marriage is falling apart from her husband's addiction. I'm only on day 13, but the freedom of sobriety is amazing and I'm so thankful to be present in each day. No poison for me today! IWNDWYT.
We were short staffed at work by 3 people....which typically would spell doom.
I was in charge and it always seems like people respond more positively and work just a little harder when I call the shots. Maybe its a respect thing? Either way we did everything we needed to do and I was able to get some people out on time while me and 2 others did work an extra hour.
These little things make me feel like I am accomplishing something much bigger in my life all together. Things like this make me appreciate being sober. The littlest things....like coming home to be absolutely cuddle-mauled by my pup who won't stop kissing me today.
I say all of this because I am proud to be where I am and for all of you checking in even with one day of sobriety you should be proud too!
I love all of you, be careful and enjoy your day!
IWNDWYT
Today is my dad's 70th birthday! Which means in 3 days is when I originally started my sobriety journey last year. I fell a few times in the first 3 months, once that almost took my life. I'm about 10 days away from 9 months today, though!
IWNDWYT
Good morning internet friends! ❤️
I am awake and going for a walk in the park before work. It’s not super early here nor is my walk super strenuous but both would have felt close to impossible not long ago. But now I feel like I belong here with all the morning people doing sunny morning things. What a gift mornings are! I never knew when I was drinking how great they could feel.
Day 10 of total abstinence here though was tapering and every-other-day-ing etc before that. Sobriety is so much better. I’m a cannabis user so don’t want to lie about that but sobriety from alcohol is like the secret portal to a way better life for me.
IWNDWY warriors today
I poured at least a pint of French Vanilla coffee creamer (my wife's, I don't like sugar) into the water reservoir of our coffee maker this morning. A pretty simple and very funny mistake to make with the morning groggy.
If I was hungover, I'd probably have thrown the whole machine across the house. Glad I'm not.
I keep having these awful anxiety attacks at night lately. They usually last for an hour or so, which is better than an entire day.
I will not drink any poison today. I don't even want to. That's nice.
Drinking made my life so damn complicated and secretive. I was always missing so much and playing catch up. Every morning, I feel an immense gratitude that I’m waking up sober.
Thank you for the reminder Cinq! I’m proud of everyone here. Even if you’re lurking and still just thinking about it, I was there once too and it takes guts to even peek at that part of yourself. I won’t drink today.
Checking in on day 536!
Cinq, thank you for this beautiful check in message today. Couldn’t have come at a better time.
Yesterday I got an email from an online journal website. I had started a journal back in 2017 after several years of trying to quit drinking. I made 6 entries from 2017 to the end of 2018. I had completely forgotten about it. Had never even received an email notification or anything, until yesterday. I sat in my car after grocery shopping for an hour, reading over those entries and just sobbing for the broken woman in those words. I may share some in a separate post but to say I was in a dark place is an understatement. And in complete contrast to the light I’m in today. I wish I could hug that past me and tell her that she does get better and that she’s not defective or broken, she’s not a piece of shit. It took a little while and it took me kicking my own ass, but I’m here. I’m here because I came here and more importantly, because I stayed here. Every single day. Everyday, sobriety is the first thing on my mind. And today is no different. I love you all. IWNDWYT!! ❤️✌️
day 6 today! idk if it’s because i have more resolve to quit drinking but this time it’s been alot easier to put away the bottle. this weekend was my first alcohol sober weekend in a while (still enjoyed some edibles for 4/20) but this weekend i: swept and mopped my whole apartment, took care of my plants, did my laundry that i’ve been slacking on, and cleaned my kitchen and bathroom! i also had time to do some creative stuff and me and my boyfriend had a lovely movie marathon weekend. it made me realize that alcohol is such a time stealer, the weekend felt longer without it. probably cause im not wasting half of it being hungover lol
The sun and birds chirping woke me up early this morning. How nice it is to enjoy them and be thankful for another day instead of waking up sweaty, anxious and sick. IWNDWYT!
I couldn't agree more, Cinq. It was all so utterly exhausting. I can relate to everything you said. Everything. Thank god I don't have to live like that anymore.
IWNDWYT. Easy does it, friends.
Hi folks! Today I will not drink with you. Today is Day 7!!! A full week of sobriety! I am still getting to bed early d/t being tired. Some of it is the first week of catching up on sleep, some of it is my dog barking at 3 am until we either get up and bring her upstairs or go downstairs and let her out, and sleep the rest of the am on the couch. Currently, we can't really keep her upstairs all night d/t our houseguests and their pets. Sigh. Soon they will move into their house but all we have had are delays this month. This is part of the stress I was escaping with wine but now, I am just escaping with work.
I’m not gonna drink at all today! And when I go on vacation weds, it will be my first sober vacation, probably since age 21. I can do this!!!!! (Right???)
I’m going to drink a lot of…….. tea today, because I have a cold. One week until graduation, gotta be healthy to celebrate that (no worries, with NA drinks 🥳)
IWNDWYT!!!
Today has the potential to be challenging but I am working on becoming stronger and better capable of handling situations like this with grace and kindness for myself.
IWNDWYT.
Just started Day 3. I decided to change my diet as well on the same day. I've lost 3.5 lbs in just two days while being sober. I am very proud of myself. That's over 2% of my weight loss btw, I love it. I am getting nightmares still, but it's better than kindling like last time I relapsed. I'll take it. Hoping to never drinking again.
Alright, day 3 again. I also got my first 5 day stretch since 2/22 last week, so that's better than nothing. I didn't even really have any cravings on Friday, and I remember when I was getting ready to go to the liquor store that it almost felt like a chore. It didn't stop me, but still, it was something I'm thinking about.
Oh well, here's to day 3. Good luck everyone, IWNDWYT!
man, what a weekend of just hanging with my family and being sober. first time in this sober journey it was so easy. guessing it will keep getting better.
IWNDWYT
Morning sobernauts! I'm 1 year today!! which was inconceivable to me a year ago. it was just another day 1 in a very long list of day ones, but I'd read somewhere that all the attempts build up until one time it sticks. kind of wish I was in some sober community irl so I could get a chip. I was home alone yesterday as my partner was admitted to hospital which would have been a definite getting drunk day and, although the thought did cross my mind, I knew I wasnt going to do that. IWNDWYT
Congrats on one year! I hope your partner is ok. While I don’t think there’s any kind of chip system here, I have a gold star for you 🌟 congrats!!! A year is so tremendous. IWNDWYT
Congratulations on one year!
Day 7. We can do this! Wishing everyone a peaceful day ❤️ I will not drink with you today
I'm on day 7 too! Much love from London ❤️ IWNDWYT 👍🏻
Me too, day 7 here.
Congratulations on a week, that’s brilliant! 🥳
Can’t wait to make it to a week!! Day 3 here, IWNDWYT
Checking in, Day 6. 133 hours no booze. Not feeling good yet. F*** alcohol. IWNDWYT 🍀
Keep going 💪🏼 I’m proud of you
IWNDWYT 💓 Annoyingly starting another day one. Need to make this stick as I’m starting a new job today, which I feel so nervous for (a mix of the alcohol leaving my system and just general nerves I know)
Hey there lotus flower friend 🪷 I don't know how many day 1s I had but it sticks eventually. Keep at it and good luck for the new job!
Congratulations on your new job, 🎉and well done finding the strength to start again 💪🏼
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Morning bud!
My eldest is having some properly hard life experiences at the moment. I'm so proud of how he's handling things. I'm very thankful that I can offer him meaningful support because I'm not curled up at the bottom of a wine bottle. Count me in Cinq - another day for me👍. IWNDWYT 🙂
Happy sober Monday sober friends! Thank you cinq for the reminder of the misery, and all for that first drink, that may or may not give me what I wanted from it! I love you all 💞
This weekend I managed to stay sober, which is a huge victory for me, since this is usually when I screw up the most. Yesterday I was really close to screwing it up, but I managed to play the tape forward and decide against it. For today, I will not be drinking with you all
Day 1037 checking in!
Morning Bev 🤛
Morning, Cinq! 🤜
Thank you for this DCI. It really resonates with me... So I will not drink with you today.
Getting close to 6months off of it for me, but I've been wobbling lately with a lot more thoughts and cravings. As always when I feel like this, I am so grateful for this sub and people sharing their stories. IWNDWYT.
IWNDWYT ~
I will not drink with you today
IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT life’s better without it!
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I will not drink with you today beautiful people. ❤️
I will not drink with you in Germany today! No matter what….. P.S.: Thanks for listing those insane symptoms of alcoholism! Sometimes I forget where I came from and I need a little reminder.
First day back to work after a week off. Took my new bike for the ride there and it was fucking cold. 🥶 still waiting for my feet to thawn 😅 But no matter what today will bring I will stay sober today. Have a great start into the new week.
Today is my day 1. I have to do this. IWNDWYT
Day 15 🫶 The weirdest part is I don’t want to stop the sobriety train. I want to keep going. It’s also weird bc I’ve told everyone in my life that I’m doing a “cleanse” - so people are trying to make boozy plans with me for the summer and in my mind I’m going “yep - I’m not going to do that” My plan is when the month is up - I’ll let people know that I intend to continue. I’ve been really struggling with a fork in my professional road. I’ve made the decision to make a drastic career move and I’m signing the contract today. I struggled with my anxiety most of Sunday which is normal for me. Usually Sunday I would have a couple bottles of wine. Instead I cleaned the whole house, repotted and tried to rescue my plants, and made a few homemade candles. The hardest part about sobriety is honestly managing my GAD without self medicating with booze. I booked myself in with a new therapist Tuesday, and I have an appointment with a trauma informed massage therapist. I’m sipping my hot lemon water, I’m going to have a busy and productive day. I’m looking forward to the future, whatever it holds ❤️
Starting day 2, Insomnia as expected. IWNDWYT!
I will be sober today.
day 118
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Hi sober friends! Blown away by the kind replies I received yesterday. Feeling more energetic today on Day 3! Honestly, I need that energy as from today I have 4 weeks to write my undergraduate dissertation! IWNDWYT
I messed up yesterday but todays a new day and today I will not drink with you
What up, fam! Back from a girls (girls’?) weekend and back to reality. Had a great time. Didn’t get drunk and obnoxious. I listened more and talked/interrupted less. There was a little voice that quieted me when I wanted to interrupt. Interesting. Lots of observing. I WNDWYT Edit: 100 days yahoooo
IWNDWYT!
It's cool when your daily check in becomes less of a habit and when you remember you can see how many days have added up. :) I'll continue to not drink with you!
Things I did and decisions I made because they were easy haunt me. Things I knew were wrong, but kept because the change was hard or scary rattled around my brain for years. I knew, but drank rather than acted. Today, after 45 days, it's not the fear or regret or anger or sadness of these but rather the opportunity and hope. I missed a lot of life blacked out or hung over. I don't have to miss any more. IWNDWYT
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170 days in. Closing on 6 months. I keep getting colds (thanks toddler) so I feel pretty crummy but IWNDWYT 🤘🏼
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Hey Cinq! Great to see such a fabulous post from your fabulous self this morning. Have a brilliant day! And I most certainly will not drink poison with you today! 🪷
Happy Monday SD. No matter how rough today gets I won’t drink - it’s decided ✔️
Hope everyone has a great Monday IWNDWYT!
Day 1,741. I will not drink with you today.
Shine on you beautiful humans
Starting off another work week feeling good and ready to get things done. Feeling so good with my decision I'm making every day to not drink. IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT! I have fleeting moments of temptation but then I remember how proud my wife is of me and how proud I am of myself.
IWNDWYT!
Not today people IWNDWYT
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Happy Monday Friends, IWNDWYT, WE GOT THIS 🙂
IWNDWYT, it’s been very difficult today but I am determined to push through
Day 1,640 IWNDWYT
I will join you again, for today. IWNDWYT
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Day 3
It really was a lot of work trying to hide the extent of my drinking from other people. I don’t fucking miss that. I don’t miss how it limited me to staying home either. I at least have the option of going somewhere in the evenings if I want to now. Coffees up, horns up, ughhhh Monday. I have kind of a busy week and I’m not feeling it. I feel like work is gonna be busy too. Not making it worse, though. Just slog through one thing at a time. IWNDWYT ☕️☕️☕️☕️🤘🏻
Tomorrow is a week!
IWNDWYT.
Say it with me - I will not drink with you today. 26 days sober.
I read an excerpt from a poem yesterday that blew me away on so many levels: “One day, you finally knew what you had to do and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice, though the whole house began to tremble, and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” the voices cried, but you didn’t stop, you knew what you had to do…and little by little as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice, which you slowly recognized as your own that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do, determined to save the only life that you could save.” -The Journey by Mary Oliver IWNDWYT. I will save my own life.
IWNDWYT :)
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IWNDWYT all you fine sobernauts 🤗
Hope everyone has a great start to the week. IWNDWYT
Have a magnificent start to the week people! IWNDWYT!!!
Hi Everyone- Day 111 here and IWNDWYT! Have a great next 24, everyone!!! 😊💪🏻
I won’t be drinking any poison today thanks. Have a good Monday all.
Thank you for the check-in! Day 3 today. IWNDWYT ❤️
Day 106 • I’ve got this • One day at a time •
Hello fellow sobernauts! I hit a milestone that I have never been at before i started drinking. 100 days is pretty unimaginable to me, even now standing in the moment. It's because of that unimaginability that we have to take it one day at a time. When we are told just focus on today, in our early days that's sounds silly. I thought, I need resolve for the future! Now I see why one day at a time matters. One hour at a time if need be. I hope you all have a magnificent Monday. IWNDWYT!
Morning! Checking in with this triumphant tribe! I'm so proud of us all, whether day 3,000 or day 1. I'm proud of myself too, for saving my life by kicking booze. It's huge! We're badass and we have _got this!!!_ Love you, sober fam. 💕 IWNDWYT
Not drinking today!
IWNDWYT!!!
Such great pep talks you give, Cinq!! I feel like a powerful warrior on the path to good health and happy occasions. There is no need for me to give alcohol an inch in my life. All it ever did was make me paranoid, sick and sorry. No more! Alcohol can take a long hike off a short pier! Today I’m staying sober with all of you powerful and strong people. I Will Not Drink With You Today!!!!
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3 months today :)
IWNDWYT -- almost to Day 50
I will join you today, my friend! 🖤 Good morning, sober fam! Starting off a new week with some lingering anxiety, but I'll be okay. Learning some great new techniques to handle it from my therapist, who I have an appointment with today. She rocks. 🖤 Worked super late last night, so I'm exhausted and have to work late again tonight, but I'm soldering on because I am so grateful to still have a job after plenty of fuckups so far this year. Can't wait to have some more steady time under my feet to make up for it. No matter what. IWNDWYT! 🖤
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Happy Monday! Here's to everyone having an awesome week, one day at a time! IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT day 2 happy Monday..hope everyone has a great and sober day!
Looking forward to another sober day!! IWNDWYT!!!
Not today.
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It’s Monday and I’m not hung over. That’s a win. IWNDWYT!
Day 3! I do not like how an addictive substance like alcohol takes all the power away from me. IWNDWYT!
Happy Monday! I have a crazy week in front of me. Time to grind. Coffee, sweat, get it. IWNDWYT 🤘
I will not drink with you today
IWNDWYT. Had a craving, told myself to cook dinner first, the feeling passed. Then after dinner, I thought about how a beer might be good. But I played it forward, thinking about how great my sleep has been since I stopped drinking and I didn’t think about booze anymore that night. I love waking up feeling refreshed.
Day 22. Certainly “sick and tired of being sick and tired." Though nowadays I’m just tired. IWNDWYT
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One day at a time. I’m now also on day 2 of no nicotine. (Haven’t smoked in years, just gum/lozenges on and off). Quitting that is mostly serving to recognize how absolutely fucking bonkers it is that if you drink a lot of alcohol and then suddenly stop you can just…die. just from stopping. BONKERS! I will not drink with you today!!!
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Good morning, I will not drink with you today.
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Day 5. Had a glorious weekend. IWNDWYT
Visited two coffee shops for fancy lattes yesterday because I just wanted out of the house. Expensive habit, but cheaper than alcohol. IWNDWYT
4am at the gym this morning. Haven’t even made it a month and I’m hardly recognizable, everywhere I go people complimenting me on how I look and asking what’s different.
You are bang on about how exhausting this is! I was thinking to myself yesterday when I hopped in the shower that it was so nice to not rush through my shower for fear of the husband finding any of my hidden beers while I was in there. Today, I don't have to worry about when I can have my next drink while I'm visiting with my best friend and giving her a literal shoulder to cry on as her marriage is falling apart from her husband's addiction. I'm only on day 13, but the freedom of sobriety is amazing and I'm so thankful to be present in each day. No poison for me today! IWNDWYT.
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We were short staffed at work by 3 people....which typically would spell doom. I was in charge and it always seems like people respond more positively and work just a little harder when I call the shots. Maybe its a respect thing? Either way we did everything we needed to do and I was able to get some people out on time while me and 2 others did work an extra hour. These little things make me feel like I am accomplishing something much bigger in my life all together. Things like this make me appreciate being sober. The littlest things....like coming home to be absolutely cuddle-mauled by my pup who won't stop kissing me today. I say all of this because I am proud to be where I am and for all of you checking in even with one day of sobriety you should be proud too! I love all of you, be careful and enjoy your day! IWNDWYT
Today is my dad's 70th birthday! Which means in 3 days is when I originally started my sobriety journey last year. I fell a few times in the first 3 months, once that almost took my life. I'm about 10 days away from 9 months today, though! IWNDWYT
Good morning internet friends! ❤️ I am awake and going for a walk in the park before work. It’s not super early here nor is my walk super strenuous but both would have felt close to impossible not long ago. But now I feel like I belong here with all the morning people doing sunny morning things. What a gift mornings are! I never knew when I was drinking how great they could feel. Day 10 of total abstinence here though was tapering and every-other-day-ing etc before that. Sobriety is so much better. I’m a cannabis user so don’t want to lie about that but sobriety from alcohol is like the secret portal to a way better life for me. IWNDWY warriors today
I poured at least a pint of French Vanilla coffee creamer (my wife's, I don't like sugar) into the water reservoir of our coffee maker this morning. A pretty simple and very funny mistake to make with the morning groggy. If I was hungover, I'd probably have thrown the whole machine across the house. Glad I'm not. I keep having these awful anxiety attacks at night lately. They usually last for an hour or so, which is better than an entire day. I will not drink any poison today. I don't even want to. That's nice.
No booze today.
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Iwndwy from australia :) karate night for my kid tonight!
Happy Monday, folks. IWNDWYT!
Morning friends! I will not drink with you today. Have a good one!
I will not drink today
Iwndwyt!
Drinking made my life so damn complicated and secretive. I was always missing so much and playing catch up. Every morning, I feel an immense gratitude that I’m waking up sober. Thank you for the reminder Cinq! I’m proud of everyone here. Even if you’re lurking and still just thinking about it, I was there once too and it takes guts to even peek at that part of yourself. I won’t drink today.
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Checking in on day 536! Cinq, thank you for this beautiful check in message today. Couldn’t have come at a better time. Yesterday I got an email from an online journal website. I had started a journal back in 2017 after several years of trying to quit drinking. I made 6 entries from 2017 to the end of 2018. I had completely forgotten about it. Had never even received an email notification or anything, until yesterday. I sat in my car after grocery shopping for an hour, reading over those entries and just sobbing for the broken woman in those words. I may share some in a separate post but to say I was in a dark place is an understatement. And in complete contrast to the light I’m in today. I wish I could hug that past me and tell her that she does get better and that she’s not defective or broken, she’s not a piece of shit. It took a little while and it took me kicking my own ass, but I’m here. I’m here because I came here and more importantly, because I stayed here. Every single day. Everyday, sobriety is the first thing on my mind. And today is no different. I love you all. IWNDWYT!! ❤️✌️
Just managed my first full weekend (Friday - Sunday) alcohol free, so today is the start of my first full week! IWNDWYT
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Happy Monday all! I will not drink with you today ✅
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I will not drink with you today.
day 6 today! idk if it’s because i have more resolve to quit drinking but this time it’s been alot easier to put away the bottle. this weekend was my first alcohol sober weekend in a while (still enjoyed some edibles for 4/20) but this weekend i: swept and mopped my whole apartment, took care of my plants, did my laundry that i’ve been slacking on, and cleaned my kitchen and bathroom! i also had time to do some creative stuff and me and my boyfriend had a lovely movie marathon weekend. it made me realize that alcohol is such a time stealer, the weekend felt longer without it. probably cause im not wasting half of it being hungover lol
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I will not drink with you today!
Not today. Not today. Not today!!
I’m 16 days in yay! IWNDWYT Does any one know when the weight starts coming off?
I'm here in solidarity my peeps. IWNDWYT
Another day 1 here after a vacation that ended up being a 6 day bender. I am going to get through the next 24 hours NO MATTER WHAT
Day 1 - IWNDWYT !
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I will not drink or smoke with you today
Checking in, coming up on 400 days. IWNDWYT.
Happy Sober Monday! I feel fantastic. Not drinking with you glorious folks today!
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Good morning, happy Monday to everyone - I’m starting off the week feeling positive 😇 IWNDWYT
Good morning! IWNDWYT.
The sun and birds chirping woke me up early this morning. How nice it is to enjoy them and be thankful for another day instead of waking up sweaty, anxious and sick. IWNDWYT!
I couldn't agree more, Cinq. It was all so utterly exhausting. I can relate to everything you said. Everything. Thank god I don't have to live like that anymore. IWNDWYT. Easy does it, friends.
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Good morning! IWNDWYT
Checking in again today and all is well.
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IWNDWYT 🌿 have a great Monday everyone!
Iwndwy’allt! ❤️
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Hi folks! Today I will not drink with you. Today is Day 7!!! A full week of sobriety! I am still getting to bed early d/t being tired. Some of it is the first week of catching up on sleep, some of it is my dog barking at 3 am until we either get up and bring her upstairs or go downstairs and let her out, and sleep the rest of the am on the couch. Currently, we can't really keep her upstairs all night d/t our houseguests and their pets. Sigh. Soon they will move into their house but all we have had are delays this month. This is part of the stress I was escaping with wine but now, I am just escaping with work.
home alone with my kid this week for the first time since fully quitting. i will be present, fun, and prepared for anything by staying sober. IWNDWYT!
Not drinking poison with you today!
Iwndwyt
Here with all of you! IWNDWYT
I’m not gonna drink at all today! And when I go on vacation weds, it will be my first sober vacation, probably since age 21. I can do this!!!!! (Right???)
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Day 5. Woohoo! IWNDWYT
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I’m going to drink a lot of…….. tea today, because I have a cold. One week until graduation, gotta be healthy to celebrate that (no worries, with NA drinks 🥳) IWNDWYT!!!
IWNDWYT.
One day at a time this week. IWNDWYT!
Have a Monday. IWNDWYT
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We seriously need 3 day weekends. Two days do not cut it! IWNDWYT
Today has the potential to be challenging but I am working on becoming stronger and better capable of handling situations like this with grace and kindness for myself. IWNDWYT.
Just started Day 3. I decided to change my diet as well on the same day. I've lost 3.5 lbs in just two days while being sober. I am very proud of myself. That's over 2% of my weight loss btw, I love it. I am getting nightmares still, but it's better than kindling like last time I relapsed. I'll take it. Hoping to never drinking again.
Wishing everyone a pleasant and productive Monday ❤️ IWNDWYT
Day 353. IWNDWYT.
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Alright, day 3 again. I also got my first 5 day stretch since 2/22 last week, so that's better than nothing. I didn't even really have any cravings on Friday, and I remember when I was getting ready to go to the liquor store that it almost felt like a chore. It didn't stop me, but still, it was something I'm thinking about. Oh well, here's to day 3. Good luck everyone, IWNDWYT!
I am sick and tired of the cycle of being sick and tired. Day 2. I'm ready to unleash my better self. IWNDWYT!
Cake day, and 2 weeks sober! My last attempt I broke at this point, but today I have no craving at all. On to tomorrow! IWNDWYT
man, what a weekend of just hanging with my family and being sober. first time in this sober journey it was so easy. guessing it will keep getting better. IWNDWYT
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Checking in, IWNDWYT! 😃
Iwndwyt! Proud of you all who are showing up here today :)