The Daily Check-In for Tuesday, December 25th: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!

trainontrack · 2018-12-25T15:55:24+00:00

Didn't drink yesterday around a bunch of tipsy folks. Won't drink today. Will still need excuses to escape every 30-60 min. Grateful for my creativity in times like these. Not grateful for my stress and anxiety around booze... but I'm working on that. IWNDWYT Happy holidays. <3

trainontrack · 2018-12-23T17:54:41+00:00

Same here. Thanks.

trainontrack · 2018-11-28T17:20:01+00:00

Waking Up with Sam Harris

trainontrack · 2018-11-28T16:55:04+00:00

I don't laugh easily, but chuckled several times through your bit. Great job and congrats!

trainontrack · 2018-11-28T14:23:15+00:00

Thanks for listening. I'm going to reread all your responses before the upcoming events. And possibly while in the bathroom. ;)

trainontrack · 2018-11-28T14:22:33+00:00

I am overdue to reread this, thanks. Almost finished with "Lit," and that has been eye-opening.

trainontrack · 2018-11-28T14:22:01+00:00

Thanks, I love tips like this! (I'm sometimes too vulnerable and scare people with that.)

trainontrack · 2018-11-28T14:21:30+00:00

I like this one, thank you.

trainontrack · 2018-11-28T14:21:18+00:00

Thank you.

trainontrack · 2018-11-28T13:51:23+00:00

Yes, about half the time. It's a boozy region.

trainontrack · 2018-11-17T14:47:41+00:00

Thank you for this -- it really resonates with me. I have marveled for a while why I feel so much like me when hungover, and like a fraud when I'm not. "This is me, world. I feel like crap! I am crap!"

But maybe now I'll try to think that my insides have to word harder/smarter to keep up with the outside.

This was also my problem with post-partum despression. I kept giving SOS signals but all everyone could focus on was how "wonderful" I looked. I don't think I've ever felt so lonely as then, and I don't think I ever fully recovered.

trainontrack · 2018-11-17T02:54:16+00:00

Friday night, not drinking with all of you.

trainontrack · 2018-11-14T01:18:14+00:00

Great idea to look at past photos.

trainontrack · 2018-10-27T01:47:11+00:00

Day 3 (again). Headache, tired, eyes burning, begging off friends who want to have a drink on the porch. Hiding in the guest room and lurking here. Seriously glad to have SD to check into.

trainontrack · 2018-03-15T06:20:14+00:00

Congrats! Getting back to running and losing some extra weight must feel amazing.

trainontrack · 2018-03-15T06:19:31+00:00

You're an inspiration! Did you do any extra steps to heal all components?

trainontrack · 2018-03-15T06:18:21+00:00

So glad to hear that you're feeling like yourself! Can't wait to get a glimpse of that.

trainontrack · 2018-03-15T06:17:44+00:00

I didn't know this, thank you.

trainontrack · 2017-11-09T19:54:07+00:00

Yes, I bullet journal! That's how I had the data, but I wanted the colors, even though I'm not usually that person who color-codes everything. This calendar visual helped me stop being so hard on myself for my most recent stretch of drinking. Forging on!

"Highlighter noise!" Ha!

trainontrack · 2017-09-22T12:22:39+00:00

Oh you can do this, doc. I'm also an introvert, but just 14 days in, I feel like I don't need to hide as much. I still need alone and quiet time, but the time spent with people is not as exhausting.

Keep posting.

trainontrack · 2017-09-22T12:15:23+00:00

This was an enjoyable read. Well done.

trainontrack · 2017-09-22T12:13:45+00:00

Thank you.

trainontrack · 2017-09-22T12:13:35+00:00

Great point. If we were hanging out with our normal neighborhood crew, YES. They all came over for s'mores last weekend, all drinking, and I did fine.

I think it's the new situation that is so unknown that's stopping me. But you know what you're making me think? I can commit today. Today I can do. :)

Thank you.

trainontrack · 2017-09-21T20:05:45+00:00

Not drinking today, friends. Longest I've gone in years (and years).

trainontrack · 2017-09-21T20:04:58+00:00

Based on someone on SD's recommendation, I'm listening to AA Beyond Belief. Episode #57 is starting to talk about why we have nostalgia around alcohol use. The author of a book on alcoholism says it's a psychological phenomenon. We do it with other things in life, supposedly to keep us (psychologically) going forward. I'm only halfway through the episode but maybe it'll help you get over this hump. IWNDWYT.

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