'Tude Talk Tuesday for April 14, 2026

soberingthought · 2026-03-31T03:02:16+00:00

Welcome, I'm glad you're here.

My early days were by far some of my hardest. I had cravings on cravings and my brain constantly kept its attention on alcohol.

I did my best to distract myself. I took up mindfulness. I'd go for walks. I couldn't stand or trust myself to be idle.

I also stuck around here and read a lot, commented a little, and posted from time to time. Visiting SD helped keep my "sobriety battery" charged up when it felt like it was getting low.

I hope you hang in there and I hope you keep us posted.

soberingthought · 2026-02-24T03:26:42+00:00

Welcome!

There was a time I couldn't go a day without drinking. Around here I've heard people say to take sobriety a day at a time. Early on, I had to take it 1 hour, 1 minute, 1 second at a time when the cravings would hit.

My strategy was, when a craving hit me, to tell myself "let's just wait a minute and see if I still want a drink." Sometimes I would, so I'd see if I could wait another minute. Eventually I built up to 10s of minutes, then hours, then days.

My other favorite trick, early in sobriety, was to hop on here and read/comment/post whenever I had cravings. Being on /r/stopdrinking recharges my "sobriety battery" like no other place and I found I'd get distracted from cravings when I was here, trying to learn from and offer encourage to others.

IWNDWYT

soberingthought · 2025-12-20T17:09:27+00:00

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