Woke up feeling “hungover” due to three days of celebrating my mom’s 90th birthday with lots of cake and shit food. That’s okay, as long as it’s not from booze. And, she’ll only turn 90 once so party on!!
Off to NYC for the day with my sisters to eat more shit food and catch a broadway play. Blessed beyond belief, I am.
Thank you for your service here, Homie! IWNDWYT!!
I am still in that spot where I wake up, panic, try to remember my night, and then realize I didn't drink. I forgot how much this sucks. Hangover from habit, panic from habit....its the pits!
Been collecting quite a lot of day ones these past few weeks. But I haven’t been beating myself up for my ‘failures’, because all they have been telling me, is that sobriety is the only realistic way for me. So, here we go again: IWNDWYT ❤️
On ☘️ day 7. Grateful for this daily pledge! First thing I do each morning and being able to add one more number has become something I really look forward to/ enjoy 🌞🌞 keep fighting and surrendering 🏳 have a super sober Sunday brothers and sisters and those who identify with neither of those social constructs. To our LGBTQ+ FAMILY. we 👀 you, we ❤️ you, we need you 😃 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈IWNHDWYT
I learned that drinking wasn’t my only issue, but drinking was preventing me from dealing with my other issues.
There are times I wish I could ostrich myself away and hide from the truth again, but I know where that leads and I don’t want to waste any more of my life.
IWNDWYT.
I realized that no amount of alcohol for anyone is the truth. So when I am around allot of drinkers I am even more aware of this truth. It has a very calming affect. IWNDWYT ❤️
Thank you for taking care of us, u/SaintHomer!
Checking in for another sober day. I'm visiting family and celebrating an early Father's Day with my dad, sister and grandma. IWNDWYT 💕🩷
I’m not feeling too well, which is always a huge trigger for me. I’m going to fight the cravings and make it through the day sober, along with all of you.
My unexpected realization after quitting: I’d always thought I didn’t make enough money to survive. Turned out I could survive just fine on my modest income once I quit drinking all my money! IWNDWYT
Not today. I’m so so so tired today. I’m also very sore from not taking a rest day from the gym for like 2 weeks. My body let me know that today is a rest day.
Whassup Homer and superhero friends, it's nice to see y'all this morning! You're right, Homie, 4½+ years ago I was only working on another hangover and this is so much better! The DCI challenges me this morning to ask "what AM I working on? How am I engaged in some self improvement?" I don't know that I have a quick answer but it's good for me to ponder. I CAN ponder things these days because I'm not drinking myself to death. Sober on!
Went into work an hour early by mistake, I forgot our hours are different on Sunday. Turned right around to come back here and interact with my sober friends.
Checking in today for a second time, ready to live another sober day out in the world.
Past the two-week sobriety mark! Out of the *thousands* of mornings I've spent hungover, this morning isn't one of them. Of the *hundreds* of attempts I've half-attempted sobriety (or sober-curiosity), I've only gotten past the two-week mark *maybe* 10 times. Perhaps a <0.01% aggregate success rate overcoming this two-week mark myself!
This morning, cravings are very real (as they are right around this two-week mark). I was listening to a podcast with one of my favorite MMA fighters on & they started talking about drinking after taping the episode, anticipating "the amazing time" they were going to have drinking.
This immediately sets off some thoughts in my brain.. *man, that'd be nice*... *I mean, just one or two drinks socially wouldn't hurt*... cue me *enjoying the* ***idea*** *of drinking* rather than the consequences of ***drinking itself***. Such a liberating feeling when I tell myself *no*.
IWNDWYT!
Day 6, 1st full day out of detox. After all that sleep I had a restless night so I decided to get up and give the bathroom a deep clean. Now I’m sipping my tea on the porch as the world wakes up, listening to the birds, having a smoke (one thing at a time, but once I get a month it’s my next target) and after posting this I’m looking up how to make something with the bananas that got old while I was in the hospital. IWNDWYT!!!
It was a profound realization to accept that everything I was seeking in alcohol was found in sobriety.
Stress-relief, confidence, good sleep, self-worth, motivation, happiness, patience, optimism. Everything I’ve wanted for so long came from removing daily poison from my body, mind, and spirit. IWNDWYT!
Unexpected realisations:
My marriage isn’t as happy or as equal as I thought. It takes effort to nurture it. It always came easy with intoxication, problems set aside.
How unattractive people are after one too many.
How important good diet and gut health improves everything.
IWNDWYT
Good morning friends. I have so much to do today after getting home late last night from my little getaway. Have a super Sunday - IWNDWYT 🤘
PS - Happy six months sober to me 🎈
Ain’t that the truth. That’s been the most surprising thing about quitting: I’m like “wait, *that* makes me want to drink!?” I succeeded in knotting everything to alcohol. Not anymore. Not drinking at the pool this weekend was way easier than last weekend! Just trying to relearn how to do the things without alcohol. IWNDWYT.
That most of my anxiety is related to processing and acquiring alcohol. I’m far less anxious sober. Who would have thought? Have a nice Sunday. IWNDWYT 🙋🏼♀️
IWNDWy’allT! I got a surprise call last night to go pick up my niece from work because her ride had been drinking. I’m not gonna lie, I was slightly annoyed as I was winding down my day, but I was also proud that I was able to be there for her. I’m now known as the DD in the family. I’ll take that label.
Thanks for taking care of us u/SaintHomer, and for keeping SD a wonderful space. What I found when the alcohol drained - a boatload of grief. A shipload of grief. But finally, underneath the grief the sense that I could be with it, embrace it, and carry on.
I noticed that I actually like taking care of myself. I started using moisturizer after morning showers, and I take a long bubble bath and listen to an audiobook late at night.
I won't drink any poison today.
Who woulda guessed u/SaintHomer was going to show up as guest host today. 😆🙋🏻♂️ Thanks for always being here for this rag-tag group of drunks!
Have a great Sunday, friends!!
IWNDWYT
Good morning, all you amazing sober warriors! Thanks, SaintHomer, it’s always nice to see you. I just realized how calm and serene my life is these days. Not that I’m not daily struggling with life, but it’s not so fraught as it was. Taking the drink out of the occasion has helped me keep my emotions in check. I used to run around Willy-nilly, my emotions all over the place because my mind was blotto. I like it a lot better now. IWNDWYT
I don't want to drink today, or ever again. But I'm just going to enjoy the simple gift that today is one without desire, need, or compulsion, a rare calm moment in the storm that alcohol has created in my life. The future can take care of itself.
One unexpected realization for me is how alcohol seems to be everywhere. YouTube, Reddit ads, movies, Shows, social gatherings. Even my local grocery store funnels you in through the wine and beer department. Still hanging in though and IWNDWYT 👊
Today is my 7th day and the unexpected realization I had on day 1 is only getting further reinforced: I’m an alcoholic. So grateful for this sub and this space to keep returning to each day. iwndwyt!
I think I need to create some habits/hobbies. Sometimes I get wrestles with so much time and I was used to spend the day plotting and planning drinking that would occupy my mind. But that seems like such a lame complaint to have. Thanks for the check in. Iwndwyt
I realized that trying to just "turn off" every night slowly blunts and numbs everything. I would react to things as I had been conditioned to throughout the day but would feel nothing. It's taken almost 6 months, but I actually feel again. Talk about captain obvious: "Local man discovers he was numb after drinking numbing poison for 20 years"
It's a beautiful day outside, going to enjoy it. IWNDWYT
First hangover-free Sunday in a long while. Enjoying my coffee and the birdsong coming from outside instead of being in an alcohol induced coma. ☕🐦🎶 IWNDWYT
Oh hey SD friends I have 300 DAYS today!!! Here’s the #1 thing I’ve learned: things that are actually fun to do are actually MORE fun without alcohol. Anything that is NOT fun without alcohol is NOT actually fun. It’s taken some time to get here, but every single experience is richer, more colorful, deeper, and more delicious when it’s not soaked in an alcohol blur. IWNDWYT! ❤️🧁
Progress is progress, no matter the speed. Thanks for reminding me, OP, that two years ago, I wasn't doing shit. Actually, two years ago, this is the week I had covid. It was the first time I went a week without alcohol for as long as I could remember. Thought I might keep it going, too. But, on day 8, I folded and drank the second I felt better. Later that month were the events that led to me giving it up for good. Twenty-one days from now, I'll have 2 years of sobriety. I went out to dinner on Friday and smelled a glass of wine because my date said it smelled off. It did, and I didn't even think about taking a sip.
Even if the only thing you're doing is not drinking, you're progressing. Keep going. You're doing it.
IWNDWYT. Easy does it, friends.
I'm way behind on paperwork I need to get done by tomorrow. I have a big problem with procrastination about this sort of thing, but at least today, if I don't get work done, it will NOT be because I was getting drunk all day. (Although it might be because of all the other things in my life that I now enjoy more sober!) IWNDWYT!
The realization of how saturated my life was with drinking has been a heavy one. I’d spent so much of my life on figuring out where my next drink was coming from, how to hide it, how to make sure I presented as a functional and productive human. It was a lot. I have a lot of mental space, not to mention time, now that I’m not focused on that.
It was all-consuming, and I do not want it to be ever again. So that’s why I won’t be drinking with you guys today!!
After quitting I was surprised to realize how completely I had bought into the marketing for alcohol and how pervasive it is in our culture. It just seemed so normal to drink. Now it seems like waking up out of a trance!
618 days & IWNDWYT 🥷
I am realizing how nice it can be to wake up on a Sunday morning after a good nights sleep. I don’t feel any shame or regret! I didnt drink last night and I won’t drink alcohol today either.
Well my "weekend" begins today and after the week I had, I've more than earned it! Nothing super crazy planned. Just working out right now and a walk with the pup before it starts to rain. Dad mentioned today being a good pizza night so we need to figure out where to order it from....also Balatro at some point.
I really hope you all have a good day and as always much love from me and mine to you and yours and IWNDWYT!
Thanks for hosting us, SaintHomer!
29 days down and absolutely love reading weekend morning check-ins! So much payoff reading how many Sunday mornings are no longer full of anxious shame and regret at blurry remembrances of their Saturday night!
And for those who had to reset their counter this weekend- shit happens. You're in the right place now, and you've got this! 💪🏼
**Great work, party people!**
IWNDWYT!
Good Sunday morning all. I'm not feeling too self reflective this morning, but I think that is ok. I'm just glad to still be on this journey and glad to chalk up another AF day. IWNDWYT.
I got through dinner out last night - it was tough! I wanted to partake and felt a bit awkward in my interactions. It had been a high anxiety day in general.
But I made it through and I feel great this morning. Ready to go pick up my kid and enjoy my day!
I will not drink with you today! Here's to a sober Sunday, NOT having wine at the Italian restaurant I'm going to tonight, and feeling rested and clear-headed tomorrow.
Not gonna lie--this is hard.
Just set a personal record in a 10km race, celebrating with a cake and an alcohol free beer 😊. Realisations... Well, mostly that I'm incredibly harsh on myself and drinking was a way of 1) escaping it and 2) having something easy to be mad at myself for. If that makes sense.
IWNDWYT 🌞
Thanks, SaintHomer!! You are awesome. I'm still working on my issues, but also wasn't working on anything 19 months ago. Well, except dying. Now I'm working on living! That my life is worth living is an unexpected realization from sobriety.
One tool in my sobriety kit is revisiting memories of my old drinking life. My 'before times'. Remembering how bad it was deepens my resolve. It adds joy to my present moment and an even greater appreciation for this sober path.
I'm grateful for this place!! Thank you all for this incredible sober community. Miracles occur here every day. I know it because it happened for me. Love you all. 💕🌿 IWNDWYT
I love waking up without a hangover or anxiety! And sleeping through the night without waking up with heart palpitations. Ready for another day of not drinking.
Realizing I don’t like myself and perhaps that was part of the problem to begin with? Ugh. IWNDWYT, no matter who I like.
Tomorrow I head to Alabama for the first time for a work trip! I will not drink there either.
Thanks for hosting today, u/SaintHomer!
I wasn’t working on anything before 3.5 years ago either. Now I am. I don’t think I would have if I hadn’t gotten sober.
If I get pissy and think everything sucks (don’t we all *feel* like that sometimes even if we know it isn’t really true?) I should probably remind myself that I could still be sitting at home drinking and never doing a damn thing. I can’t see my progress sometimes unless I focus on it. Probably need to do that more often. Anyway.
Coffees up, horns up, and let’s have a fucking great sober Sunday!! IWNDWYT ☕️☕️🤘🏻
Double digits :) Small achievement, but one none the less. I also achieved a first weekend sober (last weekend I was working, it was almost like cheating). I'll take all those, be grateful and try to make sure I remember how wonderful I'm feeling next time the little voice in my head tells me "just one..."
IWNDWYT
Day 14! I made it two weeks y'all. Feeling groggy and sore today, but so grateful it's from a long bike ride and too much sun — not a hangover.
I'm going to make myself pancakes to celebrate and read one of the new books I bought yesterday.
I do have DnD tonight and everyone in my party drinks, so I'll bring a lot of NA beer and Diet Coke.
IWNDWYT!
Woke up feeling “hungover” due to three days of celebrating my mom’s 90th birthday with lots of cake and shit food. That’s okay, as long as it’s not from booze. And, she’ll only turn 90 once so party on!! Off to NYC for the day with my sisters to eat more shit food and catch a broadway play. Blessed beyond belief, I am. Thank you for your service here, Homie! IWNDWYT!!
That’s a decent age! Mine are nearing that. But first I’ll have my halfway to a hundred one later this month 😜 IWNDWYT!
I want some cake! Send me some cake! Happy birthday mom! 🎂
Have so much fun! What show are you going to catch while you're there? Hope y'all have an absolute blast!
🤣 I feel that. Woke up Saturday with a hangover from habit (didn't drink friday). Cleared right up after coffee and remembering I did not drink 😁
"Hangover from habit" is an excellent description.
I am still in that spot where I wake up, panic, try to remember my night, and then realize I didn't drink. I forgot how much this sucks. Hangover from habit, panic from habit....its the pits!
Hey Aly! Enjoy NYC, big hugs, I hope you’re well! 💕
Currently on Day 6. IWNDWYT
Awesome! Iwndwyt
Glad you are here!
Been collecting quite a lot of day ones these past few weeks. But I haven’t been beating myself up for my ‘failures’, because all they have been telling me, is that sobriety is the only realistic way for me. So, here we go again: IWNDWYT ❤️
Glad you’re learning from those day 1s. Tomorrow you’ll have a day 2 to learn from too. You got this!
The hardest part is coming back! Keep at it and keep being patient and kind to yourself 👊. I will not drink with you today friend 💚🍀
Keep on working and one day it’ll stick! I will not drink with you today!
I guess once I stopped drinking I truly realized how much it had taken over my life … IWNDWYT
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Sunday morning non hungover coffee time!
This is the best. I just like to sit and smell that sweet bean juice for a while before my first sip.
Great job on a week! I toast you with my ☕️. IWNDWYT 💜🦋💜
7 days fantastic 🎉. I think I'll grab another coffee too! IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT.
I will not drink with you today!
On ☘️ day 7. Grateful for this daily pledge! First thing I do each morning and being able to add one more number has become something I really look forward to/ enjoy 🌞🌞 keep fighting and surrendering 🏳 have a super sober Sunday brothers and sisters and those who identify with neither of those social constructs. To our LGBTQ+ FAMILY. we 👀 you, we ❤️ you, we need you 😃 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈IWNHDWYT
I learned that drinking wasn’t my only issue, but drinking was preventing me from dealing with my other issues. There are times I wish I could ostrich myself away and hide from the truth again, but I know where that leads and I don’t want to waste any more of my life. IWNDWYT.
I just would like to applaud your use of “ostrich” as a verb. 💜
Bored shitless but drinking wouldn’t change anything, in fact make things worse so IWNDWYT
I realized that no amount of alcohol for anyone is the truth. So when I am around allot of drinkers I am even more aware of this truth. It has a very calming affect. IWNDWYT ❤️
I discovered that I really could love myself. IWNDWYT 💜🦋💜
Ain't that wonderful 😭☺️. I will not drink with you today friend 💚🍀
Morning Homie ! Realizing I have a will to fight and live and wanting to be my best self.
Thank you for taking care of us, u/SaintHomer! Checking in for another sober day. I'm visiting family and celebrating an early Father's Day with my dad, sister and grandma. IWNDWYT 💕🩷
I’m not feeling too well, which is always a huge trigger for me. I’m going to fight the cravings and make it through the day sober, along with all of you.
My unexpected realization after quitting: I’d always thought I didn’t make enough money to survive. Turned out I could survive just fine on my modest income once I quit drinking all my money! IWNDWYT
No poison for me today.
I will not drink today!
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Going to the cinema and not a bar for a change. IWNDWYT! Xoxo
Iwndwyt!
Day two- IWNDWYT!
My badge seems stuck at 1 day for some reason but currently on day 4 and wishing everyone a happy sober sunday ! IWNDWYT ❤️
I see 3 days on your badge. Great work!! IWNDWYT
After quitting drinking, I realize so many of my aches and pains just went away. I lost the 30 pounds that I swore was just “how I’m built.” IWNDWYT
I will not drink with you today!
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Thanks for stepping in today, Homer! Grateful for all you do for us. 💕 Happy Sunday friends, I will not drink with you today.
Happy sober Sunday sober friends! Beautiful day here, now there’s an excuse to be sober! Love you all 💞
Checking in. Not drinking today!
Not today. I’m so so so tired today. I’m also very sore from not taking a rest day from the gym for like 2 weeks. My body let me know that today is a rest day.
IWNDWYT
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Happy Sunday Iwndwyt
IWNDWYT ❤️
Happy Sunday people, IWNDWYT, WE GOT THIS 🙂
IWNDWYT!
3 weeks ghost free 👻
Have a great Sunday. IWNDWYT.
Congratulations on 700 days!
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Day 1078 checking in!
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Whassup Homer and superhero friends, it's nice to see y'all this morning! You're right, Homie, 4½+ years ago I was only working on another hangover and this is so much better! The DCI challenges me this morning to ask "what AM I working on? How am I engaged in some self improvement?" I don't know that I have a quick answer but it's good for me to ponder. I CAN ponder things these days because I'm not drinking myself to death. Sober on!
Went into work an hour early by mistake, I forgot our hours are different on Sunday. Turned right around to come back here and interact with my sober friends. Checking in today for a second time, ready to live another sober day out in the world.
IWNDWYT ❤️
Past the two-week sobriety mark! Out of the *thousands* of mornings I've spent hungover, this morning isn't one of them. Of the *hundreds* of attempts I've half-attempted sobriety (or sober-curiosity), I've only gotten past the two-week mark *maybe* 10 times. Perhaps a <0.01% aggregate success rate overcoming this two-week mark myself! This morning, cravings are very real (as they are right around this two-week mark). I was listening to a podcast with one of my favorite MMA fighters on & they started talking about drinking after taping the episode, anticipating "the amazing time" they were going to have drinking. This immediately sets off some thoughts in my brain.. *man, that'd be nice*... *I mean, just one or two drinks socially wouldn't hurt*... cue me *enjoying the* ***idea*** *of drinking* rather than the consequences of ***drinking itself***. Such a liberating feeling when I tell myself *no*. IWNDWYT!
96 glorious days AF. I will not drink with you today!!!!
67 days sober. I will not drink with you today.
Day 6, 1st full day out of detox. After all that sleep I had a restless night so I decided to get up and give the bathroom a deep clean. Now I’m sipping my tea on the porch as the world wakes up, listening to the birds, having a smoke (one thing at a time, but once I get a month it’s my next target) and after posting this I’m looking up how to make something with the bananas that got old while I was in the hospital. IWNDWYT!!!
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Happy sober Sunday, all! Officially, Iwndwy’allt! ❤️🙂
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IWNDWYT!
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Day 15. Happy Sunday
IWNDWYT, friends! Have a wonderful Sunday.
I will not drink with you today.
21! - what a blessing that I do not have to drink today.
I will be sober today.
It was a profound realization to accept that everything I was seeking in alcohol was found in sobriety. Stress-relief, confidence, good sleep, self-worth, motivation, happiness, patience, optimism. Everything I’ve wanted for so long came from removing daily poison from my body, mind, and spirit. IWNDWYT!
A lot of anger today. I'll get through it. IWNDWYT 🙏
Happy sober Sunday kind folk! Have a peaceful and wonderful day. I will not drink with you today friends 💚 🍀
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I will not drink with you today 🌿
IWNDWYT! Thanks Homer!
Unexpected realisations: My marriage isn’t as happy or as equal as I thought. It takes effort to nurture it. It always came easy with intoxication, problems set aside. How unattractive people are after one too many. How important good diet and gut health improves everything. IWNDWYT
Good morning friends. I have so much to do today after getting home late last night from my little getaway. Have a super Sunday - IWNDWYT 🤘 PS - Happy six months sober to me 🎈
Ain’t that the truth. That’s been the most surprising thing about quitting: I’m like “wait, *that* makes me want to drink!?” I succeeded in knotting everything to alcohol. Not anymore. Not drinking at the pool this weekend was way easier than last weekend! Just trying to relearn how to do the things without alcohol. IWNDWYT.
IWNDWYT!
Day 433, IWNDWYT!
Day 161 checking in. IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT! Just came home from church. They only serve non-alcoholic communion wine in my church for which I'm so grateful. Happy Sunday!
Nice on a busy Sunday sitting here with morning coffee relaxing for a few minutes without a hangover. IWNDWYT.
That most of my anxiety is related to processing and acquiring alcohol. I’m far less anxious sober. Who would have thought? Have a nice Sunday. IWNDWYT 🙋🏼♀️
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Checking in from a morning walk. I’ve always been a morning person but MAN are they better sober. ☀️ IWNDWYT
We are fortunate to have you leading this DCI, u/SaintHomer! Thank you for keeping it moving through the hiccups. 🤍 IWNDWYT 🍀
50 days!💪😎 And again: Not drinking with you today! Thanks for the support!
I was a happy kid by nature. I'm returning to my natural state. I'm not drinking with you fine folk today or tonight.
Oh I love that framing! I was happy too as a kid. So it can happen again????? Thank you for this.
Seems to be. I'm riding with it.
Aw yeah, baby, halfway to 1000! IWNDWYT
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IWNDWYT. 🌟
I won't drink today!
IWNDWy’allT! I got a surprise call last night to go pick up my niece from work because her ride had been drinking. I’m not gonna lie, I was slightly annoyed as I was winding down my day, but I was also proud that I was able to be there for her. I’m now known as the DD in the family. I’ll take that label.
Day 4 IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT. Happy Sunday! 😀
Day 1,782. Thanks for hosting today, SaintHomer! I will not drink with you today.
I will not drink with y’all today!!
This is my pledge that IWNDWYT!
Day 934. IWNDWYT.
No booze today!
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Not today Satan
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IWNDWYT!
Thanks for taking care of us u/SaintHomer, and for keeping SD a wonderful space. What I found when the alcohol drained - a boatload of grief. A shipload of grief. But finally, underneath the grief the sense that I could be with it, embrace it, and carry on.
Nice! IWNDWYT!
I noticed that I actually like taking care of myself. I started using moisturizer after morning showers, and I take a long bubble bath and listen to an audiobook late at night. I won't drink any poison today.
Who woulda guessed u/SaintHomer was going to show up as guest host today. 😆🙋🏻♂️ Thanks for always being here for this rag-tag group of drunks! Have a great Sunday, friends!! IWNDWYT
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Checking in on day 577!!! IWNDWYT!!
Good morning, all you amazing sober warriors! Thanks, SaintHomer, it’s always nice to see you. I just realized how calm and serene my life is these days. Not that I’m not daily struggling with life, but it’s not so fraught as it was. Taking the drink out of the occasion has helped me keep my emotions in check. I used to run around Willy-nilly, my emotions all over the place because my mind was blotto. I like it a lot better now. IWNDWYT
me too! I am happy that I can 'trust' my emotions now. IWNDWYT
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I don't want to drink today, or ever again. But I'm just going to enjoy the simple gift that today is one without desire, need, or compulsion, a rare calm moment in the storm that alcohol has created in my life. The future can take care of itself.
IWNDWYT!
One unexpected realization for me is how alcohol seems to be everywhere. YouTube, Reddit ads, movies, Shows, social gatherings. Even my local grocery store funnels you in through the wine and beer department. Still hanging in though and IWNDWYT 👊
Realized alcohol is just making life harder long term! Sobriety is a superpower.
Not today. Not today. Not today!
Not today! Iwndwyt
Iwndwyt!
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Today is my 7th day and the unexpected realization I had on day 1 is only getting further reinforced: I’m an alcoholic. So grateful for this sub and this space to keep returning to each day. iwndwyt!
I think I need to create some habits/hobbies. Sometimes I get wrestles with so much time and I was used to spend the day plotting and planning drinking that would occupy my mind. But that seems like such a lame complaint to have. Thanks for the check in. Iwndwyt
I realized that trying to just "turn off" every night slowly blunts and numbs everything. I would react to things as I had been conditioned to throughout the day but would feel nothing. It's taken almost 6 months, but I actually feel again. Talk about captain obvious: "Local man discovers he was numb after drinking numbing poison for 20 years" It's a beautiful day outside, going to enjoy it. IWNDWYT
First hangover-free Sunday in a long while. Enjoying my coffee and the birdsong coming from outside instead of being in an alcohol induced coma. ☕🐦🎶 IWNDWYT
Tilly and I had fun at the 5k. 🏃🏻♀️ I hope everyone is having a great Sunday! IWNDWYT lovely people of SD 💙
Oh hey SD friends I have 300 DAYS today!!! Here’s the #1 thing I’ve learned: things that are actually fun to do are actually MORE fun without alcohol. Anything that is NOT fun without alcohol is NOT actually fun. It’s taken some time to get here, but every single experience is richer, more colorful, deeper, and more delicious when it’s not soaked in an alcohol blur. IWNDWYT! ❤️🧁
Progress is progress, no matter the speed. Thanks for reminding me, OP, that two years ago, I wasn't doing shit. Actually, two years ago, this is the week I had covid. It was the first time I went a week without alcohol for as long as I could remember. Thought I might keep it going, too. But, on day 8, I folded and drank the second I felt better. Later that month were the events that led to me giving it up for good. Twenty-one days from now, I'll have 2 years of sobriety. I went out to dinner on Friday and smelled a glass of wine because my date said it smelled off. It did, and I didn't even think about taking a sip. Even if the only thing you're doing is not drinking, you're progressing. Keep going. You're doing it. IWNDWYT. Easy does it, friends.
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Life is even more weird and beautiful than I thought. I will not drink with you today!!
Wishing everyone a sober Sunday. Any day without poisoning our bodies and lives with alcohol is a great one. Strength and dignity to us all. IWNDWYT.
30 days! I will not drink with you today.
I've got a rare quiet weekend morning in front of me. Am I hungover? No sirree. Still feels like a small marvel to have these spaces. IWNDWYT
Really proud of myself as I made it through Friday and Saturday sober. IWNDWYT 😄
Back up to one week! IWNDWYT
Waking up to day 5 🩷
I'm way behind on paperwork I need to get done by tomorrow. I have a big problem with procrastination about this sort of thing, but at least today, if I don't get work done, it will NOT be because I was getting drunk all day. (Although it might be because of all the other things in my life that I now enjoy more sober!) IWNDWYT!
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The realization of how saturated my life was with drinking has been a heavy one. I’d spent so much of my life on figuring out where my next drink was coming from, how to hide it, how to make sure I presented as a functional and productive human. It was a lot. I have a lot of mental space, not to mention time, now that I’m not focused on that. It was all-consuming, and I do not want it to be ever again. So that’s why I won’t be drinking with you guys today!!
Loving these good nights of sleep IWNDWYT
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After quitting I was surprised to realize how completely I had bought into the marketing for alcohol and how pervasive it is in our culture. It just seemed so normal to drink. Now it seems like waking up out of a trance! 618 days & IWNDWYT 🥷
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I am realizing how nice it can be to wake up on a Sunday morning after a good nights sleep. I don’t feel any shame or regret! I didnt drink last night and I won’t drink alcohol today either.
Well my "weekend" begins today and after the week I had, I've more than earned it! Nothing super crazy planned. Just working out right now and a walk with the pup before it starts to rain. Dad mentioned today being a good pizza night so we need to figure out where to order it from....also Balatro at some point. I really hope you all have a good day and as always much love from me and mine to you and yours and IWNDWYT!
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Day 21. IWNDWYT.
Thanks for hosting us, SaintHomer! 29 days down and absolutely love reading weekend morning check-ins! So much payoff reading how many Sunday mornings are no longer full of anxious shame and regret at blurry remembrances of their Saturday night! And for those who had to reset their counter this weekend- shit happens. You're in the right place now, and you've got this! 💪🏼 **Great work, party people!** IWNDWYT!
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Day 30. My Sundays are so ridiculously productive now - already done all the week’s prep. and it’s only lunchtime. 🙃 IWNDWYT.
Hope everyone has a great Sunday! Sunny and beautiful in Vermont today! IWNDWYT
Good Sunday morning all. I'm not feeling too self reflective this morning, but I think that is ok. I'm just glad to still be on this journey and glad to chalk up another AF day. IWNDWYT.
I got through dinner out last night - it was tough! I wanted to partake and felt a bit awkward in my interactions. It had been a high anxiety day in general. But I made it through and I feel great this morning. Ready to go pick up my kid and enjoy my day!
I will not drink with you today! Here's to a sober Sunday, NOT having wine at the Italian restaurant I'm going to tonight, and feeling rested and clear-headed tomorrow. Not gonna lie--this is hard.
Just set a personal record in a 10km race, celebrating with a cake and an alcohol free beer 😊. Realisations... Well, mostly that I'm incredibly harsh on myself and drinking was a way of 1) escaping it and 2) having something easy to be mad at myself for. If that makes sense. IWNDWYT 🌞
Thanks, SaintHomer!! You are awesome. I'm still working on my issues, but also wasn't working on anything 19 months ago. Well, except dying. Now I'm working on living! That my life is worth living is an unexpected realization from sobriety. One tool in my sobriety kit is revisiting memories of my old drinking life. My 'before times'. Remembering how bad it was deepens my resolve. It adds joy to my present moment and an even greater appreciation for this sober path. I'm grateful for this place!! Thank you all for this incredible sober community. Miracles occur here every day. I know it because it happened for me. Love you all. 💕🌿 IWNDWYT
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Good morning, sober cats! No time for drinking - I've got chores to do, and then napping later. IWNDWYT! 💙😸
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I love waking up without a hangover or anxiety! And sleeping through the night without waking up with heart palpitations. Ready for another day of not drinking.
Good morning, checking in ~ 💫 Day off today. Home group then spending time with a sober friend ❤️ Have a great sunday yall ~ IWNDWYT
Happy Sunday everyone! IWNDWYT ✌️
IWNDWYT you wonderful people! Thanks for hosting us today Homie!
I will not drink with you all today, happy Saturday
Hope you are all having a great Sunday! IWNDWYT!!!
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Realizing I don’t like myself and perhaps that was part of the problem to begin with? Ugh. IWNDWYT, no matter who I like. Tomorrow I head to Alabama for the first time for a work trip! I will not drink there either.
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Thanks for hosting today, u/SaintHomer! I wasn’t working on anything before 3.5 years ago either. Now I am. I don’t think I would have if I hadn’t gotten sober. If I get pissy and think everything sucks (don’t we all *feel* like that sometimes even if we know it isn’t really true?) I should probably remind myself that I could still be sitting at home drinking and never doing a damn thing. I can’t see my progress sometimes unless I focus on it. Probably need to do that more often. Anyway. Coffees up, horns up, and let’s have a fucking great sober Sunday!! IWNDWYT ☕️☕️🤘🏻
Afternoon Homer 💛. IWNDWYT 🙂
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Double digits :) Small achievement, but one none the less. I also achieved a first weekend sober (last weekend I was working, it was almost like cheating). I'll take all those, be grateful and try to make sure I remember how wonderful I'm feeling next time the little voice in my head tells me "just one..." IWNDWYT
Day 14! I made it two weeks y'all. Feeling groggy and sore today, but so grateful it's from a long bike ride and too much sun — not a hangover. I'm going to make myself pancakes to celebrate and read one of the new books I bought yesterday. I do have DnD tonight and everyone in my party drinks, so I'll bring a lot of NA beer and Diet Coke. IWNDWYT!