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4 years today. #grateful #keepcomingback
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Great. I found, especially in the early days, trying to hit a meeting every day helped. Put your sobriety first. The book Living Sober is super helpful and an easy read. Raise your hand and share. Try to have a gratitude attitude - write down what you're grateful for. Get a sponsor. Things will get better each day. Trust me.
Agree about meetings. Agree about Living Sober. I still go back to that book. Exercise helps. Even a 15 minute walk. Talk to yourself the way you would your best friend if they were going through this. Every day you put behind you without drinking is a major accomplishment something you can feel good about especially when life gets hard. Keep going.
Have you started going to AA meetings? Really tough to do it on your own. The support of a group will help you through. You won't know yourself in a few weeks.
Best advice I got early on, get a service position at a meeting. That made me accountable and for me that helped more than I realized at the time.
The first few months I was picking up hobbies left and right just to stay busy. I didn't really stick with any of them but it was helpful at the time to retrain my focus. Yoga was my favorite as a physical and mental practice. I'd also remind myself every day why I made the decision. Knowing I was making a positive life decision helped give me strength and pride. It's ok if work takes a dip. Ultimately you're working on making yourself a better person and you will bring that value back tenfold in the long run. You just made a major lifestyle change! Don't judge yourself harshly. This will become your new normal and you'll be so much happier and healthier for it.
I feel like by trying to put myself first, I'm not performing as well at work. I don't understand how to fit it all in to one day. I'm exhausted.
Yoga worked for me for a while....Then I realized that being an alcoholic is a tragic hack and painfully detrimental to a long term career in this industry..
If you look closer you’ll realize most of the people aren’t the alcoholics they pretend to be at work. And you don’t have to be the sucker anymore.
#dontfallforit #yougotgame #doyourbest
Yes I've been going, as often as I can. It helps to an extent.
Hit some meetings, get a sponsor, cut yourself some slack at work, put your sobriety before anything else, take it easy, and take it one day at a time. You got this!
And yeah, there’s gonna be a funky adjustment period at work. Just try to roll with it, talk about it in meetings, and don’t make any drastic decisions (eg quit, take a new job). If you’ve got vacation time/summer fridays, def try and use them. Also, meetings, meetings, meetings. I used them like a drug in the early days.
Look up Naltrexone and use it through the Sinclair Method. (It's a medicine that actually works). There is a documentary called One Little Pill (you can find it on Amazon Prime Video) watch it, it's legit and it works!