Hello. I'm doing well. 1 month in and still maintaining my drink free promise. At times I lament my decision to stop drinking. At times I miss the "fun" part of it. Though I know it's not healthy and the fun was only fleeting. I have better fun now. I have faith that things are indeed the way they should be. I am not unhappy with my decision. I walk through the moments of nagging thoughts and seek to let them pass readily. I pray a lot and hope you do too - pray to your higher power whatever that might be. I am at peace.
Just feeling nostalgic tonight, missing some days of the past. A long- ago friend passed away recently. And my thoughts are with the fun time when he was in my world....all the memories. Almost a lifetime ago. Life is good. I am at peace. I miss that friend right now. I miss that time in my life when we all used to laugh together. I will rest now. So glad I could speak out here. Thank you. 🙂. So glad. Peace to you
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I was listening to a podcast where they echoed exactly what you are saying. Feeling peace at giving up alcohol but feeling like you have waved goodbye to fun. They said this was particularly hard in the first 100 days. Recovery is discovery, of how you had fun before alcohol appeared in your life. They said it takes time but you will get there and keep on building on it in the years ahead. I had a hard week but dragged myself out for a swim, sauna and massive ice cream sundae it was fun not crazy fun but fun never the less. Keep going.
I read something the other day that alcohol is an attempt to unlock the happiness in your life. It is the big lie! Of course it cannot do that! More and more on this sober journey (I'm 15 months in) I see the fog lifted - the clarity of thinking, speaking and writing - I so missed because I was handicapped by booze.
Yes, its an illusion that aclohol gives us happiness. Majority of the world functions without it. Very few relatively speaking seek pleasure thru alcohol. And within that, majority of them can handle alcohol safely. Its a very few percentage within that that goes gaga. Even in Vervet Monkies its the same. Its in the gene. There is a 3 minute clip on Alcoholic Vervet monkies by BBC, where majority of them dont even touch alcohol. Percentage wise its very close to human beings.
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Doing Dry January 🤞
Anyone else doing No-vember? 
Hi, I’m G and I am an alcoholic 
Cutting down on drinking 
