We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we’re here together!
Welcome to the 24 hour pledge!
I’m pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same.
For the next 24 hours, let’s not drink alcohol!
It’s my 8th week without alcohol today! Been very difficult at times, hoping it gets easier.
Congrats on reaching 8 weeks! It will get better over time, just take it one day at a time. The urges etc should become less.
That doesn’t mean you can get complacent. I’m sober 5 years, and last week I took a mini sip from my wife’s cocktail and immediately the urges to drink more came back. Very scary.
Congrats! That’s really amazing.
It took me a while to reap the rewards of sobriety, but they definitely came.
Hang in there, and reach out if you need to vent.
It’s already Monday here in New Zealand. Usually I would be feeling crap at work. I wasn’t drinking a lot on Sunday, but it would only take a couple of beers to make me feel very thirsty and tired. So glad I no longer experience that!
Surprised but glad to see a community here for this. I stopped drinking alcohol about 3 years ago and it’s just the norm now.
I do find though that people who drink feel uncomfortable with those who don’t and they will repeatedly offer drinks even when I explain that I consciously quit due to substance abuse. I have a theory that subconsciously these individuals know they have a problem and find it confronting when they meet someone who has addressed their problem. I suppose it’s easier to try and convince someone else to drink than it is to quit themselves.
FWIW - I used Alan Carr’s Easy Way to Control Alcohol audiobook to quit drinking.
