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Should have been my 10th day of sobriety. Instead, I was on my third day of binge drinking. Monday I had a hangover and spent the day in bed. Monday was bad BUT I was back on the wagon.
2/7 I started my journey very determined. I avoided friends and leaving the house. I was MISERABLE! I think isolation and family stress triggered my weekend binge.
This week I approached my sobriety with a different attitude. Monday-Wednesday I started cooking again. I love to cook but became too lazy to take the time away from my drinking. I did a TON of yard work. Thursday I had "surprise" DD duty. Friday I went to happy hour. Saturday I went to dinner with friends. Instead of shunning everything, I embraced my life without taking one single drink!
I'm sharing because I think when many of us start out we have the mindset that there is one way to accomplish our goal. Most of us have many day ones. Don't be afraid to shake up your plan!
2/7 I started my journey very determined. I avoided friends and leaving the house. I was MISERABLE! I think isolation and family stress triggered my weekend binge.
This week I approached my sobriety with a different attitude. Monday-Wednesday I started cooking again. I love to cook but became too lazy to take the time away from my drinking. I did a TON of yard work. Thursday I had "surprise" DD duty. Friday I went to happy hour. Saturday I went to dinner with friends. Instead of shunning everything, I embraced my life without taking one single drink!
I'm sharing because I think when many of us start out we have the mindset that there is one way to accomplish our goal. Most of us have many day ones. Don't be afraid to shake up your plan!
So what *is* your plan? Happy Hour? Doesnt sound so happy to me. Not in early sobriety.
Isolation isnt good either.
So what is the plan?
My plan is to live a happy sober life surrounded by positive people. Not all of these people will be foregoing alcohol. That's okay. It doesn't make them bad people and my sobriety doesn't make me a better one.
I believe in my higher power and in my case it's determination and will power.
I learned from my disaster that I went back to escape reality. I wanted to go back to never land and avoid the pain in my life. My girlfriend died. Six months later my father and son died a week apart. I learned something. In war torn Iraq many lose a lot more relatives than that in one day and they don't go to alcohol to escape.
Yes, I had a lot of day ones but I believed there was an answer somewhere and I finally found the one that served me well. Your path, my path, Fred's path, Susie's path are all striving for a common goal, a happy and permanent sobriety.
Antonia, I couldn't agree more. I've tried so many different day 1's. This is the first time it feels right and not like torture. Will it last? I think so. Will I relapse? With my history, odds are in my favor to do just that.
All I can do is take it one day at a time.
I feel so lucky. Many who fall after numerous years of sobriety never make it back.
Falling early on is a good reminder that you cannot control the drinking. Once you get that out of your head it get easier. Another trick is accepting life as it is and not trying to escape with alcohol.
Congrats to you for picking yourself up after so much tragedy. I only hope I can be as strong as you are.
Also my husband drinks socially, as does my best friend and we have booze in the home. But I didnt go to "happy hour" in my first few months of sobriety. Wasnt worth the risks. I went to parties with booze, to work events with booze, but always *always* with an exit plan.
Good luck with self will and determination. I do hope it works out for you.
Hugs~