Tag: sober
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Lifestyle180: Day 5.
Today is the fifth day of my sobriety and the third day of my new job. And you know what? I couldn’t be happier. Ok, that’s dumb, I instantly regret saying that because sure, I could be way happier but the bottom line is things are moving along quite well in my new realm of…
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Lifestyle180: Day 2.
8am Laid in bed wide eyed for nearly three hours last night before a friend suggested trying melatonin. Popped two and washed them down with a bowl of frosted flakes around 130am. Next thing I knew, I was up to hit the bathroom around 3 and from there I slept solid until 8. Groggy as…
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Lifestyle180: Day 1.
Lifestyle180 is me picking up where I failed with the Healing Through Writing narrative. I gave up on that as I felt writing about it, coupled with the let down of a break up, added alot of pressure to something that seemed insurmountable on it’s own. But it’s not. It’s as easy as flipping a…
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Healing Through Writing: Day 1-Take 3.
Today’s been a fairly blah, though relaxing day and I think I figured out the missing element that I am needing to overcome this cancerous plague of doom: my higher power and in heavier doses. I put myself here but only God can rescue me from it. Not a good choice of words because my…
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Healing Through Writing: Day 1-Take 2.
1030am After last nights fail, I am as rested as I typically am and at the second last pancake breakfast of the Stampede with my girls. This one promises to be the mother of all pcake breakfasts with flapjacks, ham, hashbrowns and baked beans. The sun is shining and it’s going to be a beautiful…
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Water.
Tomorrow marks 28 days sober, or four weeks which means Christmas Eve will signify one month. Now let’s clarify.. in that time frame I did drink. On around the middle to end of the second week I did forcibly indulge. I experienced a time of craving and I managed to convince myself I should try…
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Lazarus.
Tomorrow when I wake, it’ll mark double digits on the sobriety train. Ten days, to the layperson. Now I realize I have procrastinated a bit with past blog postings about freedom from the liquor etcetera. Those were short lived, hope fueled rest stops on the way to the grand bus itself that is sobriety. They…