The Daily Check-in for Tuesday October 1st - Just For Today, WE Are NOT Drinking!
The Daily Check-in for Tuesday October 1st - Just For Today, WE Are NOT Drinking!
Good morning fellow sobernauts, IWNDWYT đ!
We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but weâre here together!
Welcome to the 24 hour pledge! Iâm pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same.
Maybe youâre new to c/stop drinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe youâre like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe youâve been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.
It doesnât matter if youâre still hung over from a three day bender or been sober for years, if you just woke up or have already completed a sober day. For the next 24 hours, letâs not drink alcohol!
Happy October 1st! So excited for the fall, changing leaves, cooler weather where Iâm at. I will not drink with you today!
my first octsober :)
I will join you!
g'day team, was having a really shit morning, super uneasy "I need to gtfo of rehab" feeling, all that vanished when a C17 globemaster flew overhead, i shat, started tracking her on a flight path app, she headed straight for alice springs almost dead centre of australia, but she made a little dip around my hometown?? other than that, straight line, I was slightly offended. she dumped a bunch of shit at alice and is on her way back here. ill see if she does it again. day 12, learned how much damage alcohol really does in class, big yikes but been fantasizing about weed. hmm.
I like flying things. They are neat.
Rehabs do teach you a ton of things though and that is cool. I am sure you are getting really good at your "I" statements by now too and that is always good to learn for a ton of situations in life.
Don't worry about the pot fantasies. It's not alcohol. (Rehabs tend to treat it like the devil, if you haven't seen that yet.)
Above all else, your main takeaway from rehab is that rehab sucks ass. It can be enjoyable for some, I suppose. (I must have liked it so much I went back at least 4 or 5 times.)
An old acquaintance was confused as to why I kept going back and then he simply told me one thing: "If you don't want to get drunk any more, then don't drink. It's as easy as that." It took me the better part of 15 years to figure out what that really means, but I have a few years of sobriety under my belt now. (I don't count days. I was sober today and that is all that matters to me.)
hey thanks v much. i shouldn't be counting but im hyped for my first AA chip, im full commit to sobriety, today's lesson was how much damage alcohol does to your entire body which was, idk solidifying my sobriety, terrible drug. I've had to detox a million times but this is my first rehab, I've learned so much ive laughed ive cried and im almost certain I have bipolar and a shitload of trauma to work through. thanks for the encouragement I really love checking in even tho I go way off topic, but itll be good for me to go back through and read my rehab journey. thanks friend, congrats to us on getting through another day
Thatâs interesting about the plane! Worry about the alcohol, donât worry about the weed, IMHO. Youâre doing great, ALL of the alcohol is out of your system now! Half lifeâs and all. How are the meetings going?
the in ward meetings are p depressing lots of trauma dumping and bad vibes from patients id rather not hang out with, very keen to get back to my home group, when someone gets a chip they pass it around the circle and charge it up with good vibes I'll pass around my necklace. only let a few special friends here touch it. but plan to get AA circle and triangle tattooed on my right hand over a self harm scar and this cool infinity one mick found and printed out for me, in case I get ambidextrous about drinking. generally, things are improving nightmares are subsiding, way less vivid and retraumatising, new antidepressant and looking forward to going home. i think a big part of yesterdays bad vibes was homesickness, and not just for home but for my home meeting, my job, my family. shit I've just spent so much time in hospitals since 2021, very over it
Early Wed morning here, I want to commit to not drinking again today. I've been back on it since Sat, after my best run ever of 17 consecutive AF days. Really noticing how I feel low- level crappy and tired all morning, even if I don't "have a hang- over". Just getting through normal stuff is more of a struggle, which is part of why I feel like I've earned my drinks as soon as I get in the door in the afternoon. I know it won't be easy at that point in time today to stick to this, but I've got my AF alternatives in the fridge, and I'm writing here to set that intention...