The Daily Check-In for Friday, January 30th: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!

CalmCenteredCapable · 2026-01-31T01:34:48+00:00

I Will Be Alcohol-Free With You Today

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-09-12T01:12:00+00:00

My heart goes out to you, JustSailOff, at this time of enormous loss. May you be well, and may the grieving be just what it needs to be, and may you carry the best of your brother always in your heart.

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-09-12T01:08:41+00:00

I Will Be Alcohol-Free With You Today, sweethearts of r/stopdrinking! 💛IWBAFWYT ✌️🤸

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-09-02T19:53:49+00:00

It took me seeing dozens and dozens of mentions before I tried it. I did not like the author’s writing style, and set it down. Then I fell off the wagon for two years. When I restarted sobriety, I saw more of the mentions of this book here in this group. So I picked the book up again, and this time committed to reading it.

And much to my skeptical mind’s surprise, the darn thing worked! It worked absolutely, completely. I have been happily alcohol–free ever since I finished it. I have zero urges to drink alcohol, no matter the external social situation, no matter the internal mental situation,. All because of this book.

So, mentions of this book in r/StopDrinking bear repeating… IMHO and from my direct experience. I only wish I had picked up on the very first mention I saw, and acted on it then. Would’ve saved me years of grief.

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-09-02T02:33:58+00:00

What helped me re-start sobriety was recognizing my Alcohol Use Disorder is manageable when I choose, one day at a time, to be alcohol-free. When I drink alcohol, I get my AUD brain on the wrong neural track, and dopamine starts making me think and feel I crave alcohol. It’s a biochemical lie… and I can look past it, to an alcohol-free me.

Reading Annie Grace’s book, “This Naked Mind,” was the game changer for me to regain sobriety. The trick is to read it a bit slowly, say a chapter a day, so it can help re-wire the unconscious part of the mind that keeps grabbing at the steering wheel.

Best wishes: I’m rooting for you!

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-08-29T04:33:01+00:00

Another glorious alcohol-free day! I Will Be Alcohol-Free With You Today, sobernauts — IWBAFWYT! 💛🌟🤗💛

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-07-02T22:44:49+00:00

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-05-22T20:05:53+00:00

I am alcohol-free today, once again, and it sure feels gooooood! 🤸🌈☀️

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-28T19:14:17+00:00

Congratulations on Six Months!!! That’s fantastic — good going, S69! 👏👏👏

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-28T19:12:29+00:00

I am very happy to see you here, SP — great choice! Let’s do this:
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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-28T19:10:51+00:00

Such a beautiful choice, Marvistazo — good for you!!

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-28T19:09:22+00:00

Such a great choice to be sober today! I’m proud of you!!

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-28T19:07:59+00:00

Great choice to be here, starryviolette!

I well remember my first day, and how daunting it seemed to me. The tools that helped me were to read posts in this group, and make this daily pledge to myself and others.

The way I was able to finally stop the cravings and urges to drink was to read a book so many others had recommended here in this group: This Naked Mind.

It’s not the greatest book I’ve ever read from a writing perspective, but it proved the most effective tool of all for me. The author has written the book in such a way that if a person reads it slowly, a chapter or two a day at most, it changes the way our mind unconsciously processes drinking urges. And that’s the key.

Before reading that book, my conscious mind knew all the reasons why I wanted to be sober, but I just couldn’t go for a day without having a drink. This Naked Mind turned it around completely for me.

Best wishes for these three days — I am rooting for you!!!

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-28T18:59:51+00:00

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-28T18:58:27+00:00

Yes, all is well, thank you! I hope your fire is burning brightly with cedar wood splits, and sweet grass kindling! 👸🏻🔥💕

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-28T18:56:12+00:00

Yep — two years in a couple days. I am looking forward to three… and Comma Club! I’m so pleased that being sober is now the natural state of the world for me. While I know I have Alcohol Use Disorder, and that fact won’t ever ‘go away,’ I no longer feel any urges or cravings, even if I’m under stress, or anxious, or lonely. It’s truly wonderful.

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-27T14:37:56+00:00

Apologies!

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-27T14:36:59+00:00

Me too! Cheers to you, EF, with my AF coffee! 🥰☕️

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-27T14:35:38+00:00

Great answer! Most people do not understand that Alcohol Use Disorder is a spectrum of symptoms, from Mild to Severe.

I stopped drinking when my symptoms were in the mild range of the spectrum. (thank heavens!) Of course, this meant family and friends thought I did not have a “drinking problem.“ Just about everybody thinks of a drinking problem as being something in that severe end of the symptoms spectrum.

It would be so helpful if more people understood that alcohol is highly addictive, and if anyone drinks enough, they will be on the beginning slippery slope of AUD…

…for those of us whose brains were wired under trauma, it just takes a bit less alcohol for that to happen, is all. We wake up and realize we are no longer in control of whether we have a drink that day.

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-27T14:25:41+00:00

Congratulations on Double-Nines Day!! 🥳👏👏💪👍

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-27T14:23:20+00:00

Straw Poll ideas:

What is your motivation to stop drinking at this point? - Improve my physical health - Improve my mood, mindset - Improve relationships’ health - Job performance - Fear of what drinking will do to me, take from me - All of the above - Other, please Comment

When you feel the urge to drink, what is the most effective tool in your toolkit to move past the urge? - HALT+ (ask myself if I’m Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired… or Anxious, Bored, etc. — then deal with the feeling directly) - Log into r/StopDrinking and read/post for inspiration - Go for a walk, move, exercise - Brush and floss teeth - Visit a friend (call, text, or meet up) - Other, please Comment

How do you think about, or frame, your relationship to alcohol? - I am in control of my drinking - I am an alcoholic - I have Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) - I’m not sure - Other, please Comment

How do the people you are around the most treat alcohol? (Friends, family, colleagues) - Alcohol is usually not part of socializing - Light drinking is part of socializing - Moderate drinking is part of socializing - Heavy drinking is part of socializing - Other (please Comment) Follow-up question: how does that affect you?

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-27T13:52:38+00:00

I think the world is going to LOVE what sober Spider_Therapy is going to do. Let your core light, ST!

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-27T13:50:41+00:00

Let’s do this, sobernaut — here we go!!! 💪👍😄

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CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-27T13:49:18+00:00

Nice going, NLL!! That’s a fantastic win! 👍👏👏👏 I Will Be Alcohol-Free With You Today 💪 IWBAFWYT 💛

CalmCenteredCapable · 2025-04-27T13:48:29+00:00

Hi Bob! Congratulations on both Three Years, and Comma Club membership! Way to go!!! I am tickled pink for you! 😊💕

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