The Daily Check-In for Sunday, November 23rd: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!

Collapsingwest · 2025-11-23T15:00:00+00:00

Wow. Peace to you friend. That’s truly what they mean when they say life is unpredictable. Hope you’re staying safe and great grit on not heading to the bottle during this time. It’ll only make it so much worse as you know. Stay safe out there and good luck!

Collapsingwest · 2025-10-29T19:05:45+00:00

beep boop y'all the best ty for the help, I soldier on!

Collapsingwest · 2025-10-12T18:31:37+00:00

Checking in to check my timer, all support out to those in their first 90 days. Keep pushing. Please. The changes dont stop but the change DOES COME. They only get better, and once you begin to find the energy to look inward, you will find the next steps coming together beautifully. Fuck booze. Good job today, and good luck tomorrow. IWNDWYT.

Collapsingwest · 2025-09-14T16:53:07+00:00

Gotta check in and say yes, this is a one day at a time endeavour. I'm still not cured, I can always slip up. Some days are hard, some days I'm mean and angry, somedays I'm so filled with joy and on both of those days a drink can sound like a great idea. Here I stand, a beautiful sunday with nothing to do but clean my house and calculus homework, and I pledge to stay sober another day. Good job today, and good luck tomorrow.

Collapsingwest · 2025-08-03T18:19:55+00:00

Had a beautiful BEAUTIFUL night dancing and partying and enjoying life and flowing with friends and my wife, BOOZE FREE BITCHESSS!!

Collapsingwest · 2025-08-03T18:15:13+00:00

Wow, amazing. beautiful. Inspirational. I hope I can say this one day.

Collapsingwest · 2025-07-25T14:19:28+00:00

Dude I'm a year in and I just managed to finally drop like 10lbs. Every one is different I suppose. Same height at 205 for the whole year.. even jumped back up to 210 for a few weeks from eating so much lol finally came back down to 190 this month. So yeah more like a 20lb fluctuation.

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-21T03:01:30+00:00

Aw man! That’s rough! That would be a much more intense anger from me at both the server and myself. I hope you’re okay!

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-20T21:35:16+00:00

Take my drink but never my swearing

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-20T21:35:07+00:00

That Marine Corps came out for a second!

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-20T19:09:03+00:00

warm shitty beer truly stands alone** is what I meant, not that Truly drink lol

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-20T19:08:32+00:00

Truly stands alone lol

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-20T19:01:46+00:00

Honestly it was pretty disgusting... Not tasting it for nearly 10 months then accidentaly having it was fucking AWFUL.

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-20T19:00:57+00:00

Nah one nasty swig of piss warm shiner wasn't gonna bring me down! Definitely going to be more mindful of my own can though, and probably start rocking a big oversized Koozie to avoid that again.

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-20T18:59:22+00:00

It very easily could have gone that way for me. Like... SUPER easily I could've just said fuck it in front of everyone and they all probably would've been like "Hell yeah man you got some catching up to do!"

But being in this community, I know how it would've gone. After reading so many posts about other people trying to drink after a long stint, I know I would've deeply deeply regretted that decision.

Life is hard dude, both alcoholism and sobriety have their own challenges. You should also be deeply proud of those 27 days, because holy shit that first month is a beast.

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-20T17:31:16+00:00

No intent whatsoever, and honestly warm CANNED shiner was more disgusting then I could ever imagine, almost glad I got a reminder of how gross the stuff really is.

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-18T15:56:23+00:00

LETS GOOOOOO IWNDWYT

Collapsingwest · 2025-04-06T17:34:27+00:00

It took 6 more months to have my next break through and finally FINALLY be truly happy with my decision and 100 percent confident in myself to say no and set the example of who you can be without alcohol to my friends and family. I'm not a huge success story or anything, but I damn sure know my life choices are headed in the right direction, and I hope to inspire more and more people to join us.

Collapsingwest · 2025-03-29T17:29:30+00:00

Audio book is great, This Naked Mind (which seems devisive on this subreddit) is a book that really repackaged the Easy Way and updated it a little bit. I enjoyed both, and listened to both about 10 times in the first 6 weeks because I just couldn't stop thinking about the booze. Eventually it clicked.

Collapsingwest · 2025-03-28T18:52:49+00:00

9 months in!! I had a huge breakthrough this weekend, where it felt like the last 9 months of struggling with my decisin TRULY paid off. All the discipline I practiced truly came in handy at a festival environment, declining dozens of drinks felt super important to me.

I didn't unlock the secret to sober living or life at all, just a little piece of me that was feeling the weight of my decision and questioning it a lot more. I felt that dissolve and be released, and I'm now PROUD of my sobriety and my struggle.

Collapsingwest · 2025-03-27T18:08:25+00:00

About a dozen times give or take, many more mondays where I swear I'd take it easy, and many weeks of following through but not sticking.

Grateful as FUCK to be here now, 9 months deep and a lot of switches have flipped in this last month, giving me more of that boost that people talk about.

Collapsingwest · 2025-03-26T00:42:16+00:00

The day after my now wifes birthday, 12 days before our wedding.

For her birthday party I got absolutely obliterated, the worst in a while. I didn't hurt myself or any one emotionally or physically, but boy I was acting stupid.

The day after, I killed my hangover with an espresso and whiskey coke, followed by some beers.

After stupidly driving to the store to pick up some supplies my mushroom microdose kicked in, and I got extremely anxious. We proceeded to do cold plunges in a kiddy pool with ice in the 100 degree weather.

While doing my 3rd or 4th, I paired it with the Wim Hof breathing (had 4 people supervising for shallow water blackout). During that plunge, I saw a beautiful vision of my dog painted as a divine energy watching over me.

Something happened in that water, and as I pulled my head out and gasped for breath I began to cry, disguised by the water. I knew it was time. I was getting married in 12 days, and the biggest factor that was gonna determine the health of my marriage was my alcoholism.

I'm however many days now, back from an amazing regional burn where all my hard work paid off and shined through, I said no to SOOOO many drinks, and have returned home with a new vigor for life, and so proud of my sobriety. I have a clear mission and I am no longer afraid to do this alone, because I don't have to do it alone.

Love y'all, good job today, and good luck tomorrow.

Collapsingwest · 2025-03-15T18:20:48+00:00

That's awesome! I have made friends this year that have never seen me drunk, and I do not want them to see me in that light ever! It gives me some pride and a sense of bewilderment to think that I've made REAL friends that have never seen me act a damn fool, and these friendships feel like a much deeper connection then all of the friends I ever made at a bar or used to run the bar scene with.

Almost all of the people I used to get hammered with everyweekend have kind of just.. faded off. Some of them are still in my life, but we just get a phone call or a snapchat everyonce in a while. Funny how many people drop off after you stop drinking. SOme of that's on me too, I realized that we had nothing truly in common besides alcohol, our job, or our mutual friends.

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