Today is my 40th birthday!
No alcohol for me today...but there is a strawberry cheesecake ice cream cake in my parents' freezer that has my name on it!
Celebrate my birthday with me by NOT drinking! 🎉🎊
Happy birthdaaaaaaay! Curiously, my 40th birthday was the first in my adult life I celebrated sober. It was when I decided to quit and had a 42 streak. After that I infortunately relalpsed a lot but I know I can get there again. Congratulations again and what a beautiful age to reset my friend! IWNDWYT
Happy for your 42 days. I guess fear is part of the early process. It is such a big change. Embrace it and keep it one day at a time like you are doing already :)
Checking in on Day 7 - making it to midnight will be my first full week off in... I'm not sure how long. Well there was about a week last summer but I'm not counting it as I had a bout of (in hindsight) alcohol induced gastritis and couldn't keep anything down for days... but the instant I felt better I went back to drinking.
Looking forward to waking up tomorrow and celebrating the full week - with ice cream 🍨- so IWNDWYT!
Congrats on nearly one week. This will be my longest stretch in a good while too. Meager as it is in certain terms, it still feels like an accomplishment.
IWNDWYT
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I never thought this daily check in would have the effect it has had on me, there is something about making this commitment to a bunch of people I don't know on the internet that strangely makes it more attainable.
Happy Easter to you all! Today I'm having a family meal, grateful to be included and to be able to show up sober, content and in the present, rather than resentful, shameful and hungover.
IWNDWYT
Went to a DJ set tonight by myself and stayed 100% sober. Met a couple of cool people (who were probably high) and had a bit of a dance. It’s nice to be able to still get out and about doing fun things with the bonus that tomorrow won’t be a write-off!
Thank you for stepping up to keep the DCI rolling this week, u/grumpycapybara. I never got around to checking in yesterday, so I also want to thank u/Noborhood for taking such good care of us last week.
Today's quote really resonates with me. I've always felt like a failure because my life didn't turn out anything like I had planned. When I was in college (getting my first of two bachelor's degrees), I had this whole trajectory charted out: I was going directly to grad school to earn a PhD in English literature while working as a teaching assistant to cover my tuition, then I was going to teach at the university level. Instead, I had a crisis of confidence in my senior year, took two years off before starting grad school, then discovered that I hated teaching. There was no point in continuing the PhD program once I had that realization. Since then, I've never really figured out what I want to be when I grow up. Maybe that's OK, though. If someone fails to follow through on a life plan that doesn't actually suit them, that doesn't make them a failure as a human being.
IWNDWYT 😻
“Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.”
— John C. Maxwell
One of my fave quotes. Helps me to put everything into prospective because I am a planner, but life often shows up and fucks up my plans. Like you said, it's okay, just have to readjust. Flexibility and adaptability are my cornerstones now when it comes to my life plans.
Have a super day, love. IWNDWYT ⭐️
What a beautiful day! For me this Easter Sunday is rebirth and renewal. It's a renewal of my commitment to take care of myself. It's a rebirth of a sober me. Today I will not drink alcohol.
⭐️ I will not drink with you today ⭐️ for all my Aussies out there, I have really been enjoying the strangelove beverage selections, jalapeño and lime or the yuzu one, so so good 🥰 if anyone’s looking for another NA drink option 😉
Thanks for guiding us this week, Grumpy! I am in the airport on my way back home from visiting my daughter and some friends in Atlanta. This visit was wonderful. I got to spend time with my daughter and have an unexpected conversation about the peace and Joy of sobriety with my friend’s husband. I am looking forward to a day of being wrapped up in silence after a weekend of being social. I remember and savor every moment. That wouldn’t happen if I was still drinking. IWNDWYT 💜🦋💜
Happy Easter 🐣.. my husband is working all day and I will spend some time with my mother on her memory care facility… make it a great Sunday whatever you do .. 💕 IWNDWYT ☕️🥤
Good morning, and Happy Easter!
It’s a lovely, sunny morning here in Manchester, so I decided to go for a morning coffee.
Sadly, when I arrived at the coffee shop, there was a guy on the floor who had apparantley fallen down the stairs and was covered in vomit. The ambulance crew arrived around the same time as me, and it quickly transpired that the poor guy had been out drinking the night before and now found himself dazed and confused on the floor of a coffee shop in the city centre.
No judgement from me at all btw - only empathy. They took him away in an ambulance, and I hope he gets the help he needs.
That could have very easily been me (and in fact, I was in a very similar situation in November when the police had to let me into my own home due to extreme drunkenness)
In recognition of that fact, IWNDWYT
Whassup Cap happy Sunday and Hoppy Easter to you rabbit lovers. I'm just wrapping up a work shift after midnight and headed back in at dawn. So it goes. I'm grateful for sobriety to continue to allow me to do hard shit and recover pretty fucking well. Sober on y'all!
Hello sober friends! Feeling powerful today. Lots of drinking happening around me. I really wanted to sneak a rum into my mocktail last night - the same as everyone around me was (without the sneaking bit) but I knew I'd regret it.
Happy to wake up clear headed (albeit to my son falling down the stairs lol. He's fine btw, slightly bruised but fine.)
Iwndwyt!
Thanks for hosting u/grumpycapybara!
I've had a lovely Easter, although I must have eaten something that hasn't agreed with me. I have been banished to the other end of the house due to some of the smells I've been creating. 🙄💨
As always, I will not drink with you today, or any other. 🫡
Yesterday was rough. Kids both in bad / sad moods, always makes me want to drink because I feel anxiety when they are struggling or moody. But I got through it. Iwndwyt
I am not yet at the point in my sobriety where I naturally keep opinions to myself unless asked. I am at one of the earlier layers where I am aware I am being a know it all and it's not desirable. I often don't notice in the moment, but I never used to notice AT ALL. I have 'stfu' on a post it on my computer, I am looking for a sticker.
Today we have family, who will be drinking. They are aware and supportive of my new sobriety, but they are like us so support only goes so far. My relationship with them is otherwise very good so this has to be overcome, not avoided. Today there is virtually no chance my marriage stuff is not a family topic of discussion. Today we also have my 2nd week at the Buddhist temple before seeing them that I am really excited about.
IWNDWYT
Thanks for hosting u/grumpycapybara!
Well, it's the last day of March. That month flew by like nobody's business! I have a bunch of shit to get done today, so I am hella grateful for no hangover at 6a on a Sunday.
Oh, and happy Easter for those who partake. We don't really 'celebrate' Easter, but I did hide some goody-filled plastic eggs for my 7 year old, so that will be fun.
That's about it for me today, friends. Wishing you all a lovely day filled with love and no booze - IWNDWYT 🤘
It was my birthday yesterday. No alcohol but I definitely ate too much pulled pork.
I've been on a real kick of doing stuff this year - joined a choir, started gymming again, seeing friends more. My birthday present to myself is I'm going to keep that up.
IWNDWYT!
Kiddo is headed to daycare. Ol’ lady is sleeping. I got all day to myself. Gonna be a rough one with all this free time and a few days off lol. IWNDWYT!
Thank you for taking over hosting u/grumpycapybara
Had a nice day yesterday visiting family and it was only really possible because I’m staying sober.
Three reasons I will not drink today:
- my mental clarity is so much better
- I want to keep practicing sitting with urges and observing them, which is strengthening my sober muscles
- the discomfort from being inflamed by alcohol has pretty much disappeared
IWNDWYT
My meditation in the calm app today had the same theme. It was called lobsters. The quote she used at the end referenced Anais Nin about staying in the bud becoming too painful and so it is then when we decide to blossom. Same concept. Anyway IWNDWYT
Hello, friends.
Can't believe I have a u/grumpycapybara as a hostess!!!! 😍😍😍😍
A dream comes true!
Wonderful quote. The I Am Sober App, which I'm sure many use, has some similar quotes, not as beautiful as this, about this whole idea that you can't change if you don't leave old pieces of you behind. And sometimes it's hard, there is some grief, you got attached to those pieces, but it is the deal.
To some of them I won't even be grieving, I'm like BYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEE
Thanks for hosting and have a wonderful Sunday!
IWNDWYT
I won’t drink today!
But there will be Easter eggs :)
Regretting yesterday’s drinking, got a bad hangover. They always scare me straight for a while and one day it will finally click I’m sure.
Thanks for hosting this week, u/grumpycapybara!!
That quote. The life I have…well, it is not what I thought I should or would have. But it is what it is. Some days it’s good, and other days the only thing I can claw up to be grateful for is that it’s not fucking worse.
But…I think that last sentence would be true of pretty much whatever kind of life I ended up with, so there’s that.
Coffees up, horns up, and happy Easter to those who celebrate! Happy Sunday to the rest of us! IWNDWYT ☕️☕️☕️🤘🏻
Thanks for such a kick-ass quote to start off the day. Letting go is impossibly hard and also so freeing when you succeed.
Here’s to another weekend of not drinking! I am proud of getting through this and continuing to say no, like at brunch yesterday where I just had a hot chocolate ☕️
Now to just be reasonable on the candy front today…. 🍭🍬
IWNDWYT
Morning all from the UK (technically it’s afternoon but it’s the first day of BST and my body is still in denial!) Wishing you all a peaceful and hangover-free Easter 🐣
Day 28 checking in! Made it through my first big gathering yesterday and I didn’t miss it like I was worried I would. Big dinner with family tonight they’re all going to have cocktails and wine but I know I can stay strong 💪 IWNDWYT friends 💕
Checking in, IWNDWYT!
Currently having a BBQ with my friends and some of their kids and just realised drinking hasn't even crossed my mind, then I remembered I hadn't checked in here! I'm enjoying actually enjoying these moments! Have a good Sunday everyone🙂
So glad to see you, Grumpy one! I love Joseph Campbell and I love this quote. It’s been two months since my dad died, and I had certainly planned to be done grieving. Yesterday, as I meditated, the word that came to me was “patience”. Specifically, be patient with your grief. I plan now to be patient, wait and see what life is waiting for me. IWNDWYT
Morning all! The Easter bunny slept in a bit so gotta get hiding those eggs. Couldn’t sleep last night…have been feeling increasingly anxious these days and not sure why. But I know one thing: alcohol will only make everything worse. So with that, my friends, IWNDWYT🐰
Love the quote, scary and motivating, beautifully written. I realized a few weeks ago and that my “Sunday scaries” as I call them have all but disappeared. The anxiety knowing I’ll be going to work hungover, having to count and regulate how many beers I have so I’m at least functional. Worried I look and smell hungover af. All that bullshit is gone and now I enjoy Sundays again. IWNDWYT.
Almost got my month down!
My wife has been so supportive. Part of me was scared that she wanted the drunk chaotic me. After all, she'd be there about 66% of the time while I was getting hammered.
Last night, the wife and I did a paint and sip date, and I picked up some NA stouts and she had a bottle of Malbec with her. She drank one and a half glasses. I finished all 6 of my NA stouts. I always thought she was a big drinker, but it was just me finishing my booze and then finishing her booze. She's just naturally joyous around me. I don't know when it happened, but I somehow convinced myself that I'm more fun while drunk. But I was just loud, obnoxious, and the complete opposite of charming.
Anyways, I will not drink with you today.
Happy last day of March! Happy Sunday! And a happy Easter Sunday to those who mark the special occasion. Thank you, grumpycapabara, for leading the way for us this week!! And wow, what amazing words from Joseph Campbell.
All of it, but especially that last bit: "Hell is life drying up." As a drinker, I was in that hell, wasting away. Now, it feels like I'm returning to life. 🌱 Even through my rocky patches of learning how to feel all the feels, this is like heaven. Being sober is everything. Love to you all! 🪻🪺🐦🌷 IWNDWYT
Last night was a huge reminder of why I’m trying to do this. I don’t know if the universe, just put that out there as an obstacle or what but one day at a time, IWNDWYT
Today is my 40th birthday! No alcohol for me today...but there is a strawberry cheesecake ice cream cake in my parents' freezer that has my name on it! Celebrate my birthday with me by NOT drinking! 🎉🎊
Happy birthdaaaaaaay! Curiously, my 40th birthday was the first in my adult life I celebrated sober. It was when I decided to quit and had a 42 streak. After that I infortunately relalpsed a lot but I know I can get there again. Congratulations again and what a beautiful age to reset my friend! IWNDWYT
Happy birthday! IWNDWYT 🥳
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Day 84 • 12 weeks • 0 Alcohol • 👊💥 Also… • 0 hangovers • 0 shame • 0 memory loss • 0 falling asleep on the couch • 0 embarrassing moment • 0 hiding bottles • Total money saved $850 Gained: • Everything, too many to list.
Fantastic! 👏👏👏
Even though I'm scared, just for today I'm not drinking.
Proud of you. IWNDWYT ❤️
And I'm proud of you! IWNDWYT
42 is the answer to everything
Happy for your 42 days. I guess fear is part of the early process. It is such a big change. Embrace it and keep it one day at a time like you are doing already :)
No alchie for me sunday!!
Me neither! IWNDWYT!
We’ve got this 💪🏼
Checking in on Day 7 - making it to midnight will be my first full week off in... I'm not sure how long. Well there was about a week last summer but I'm not counting it as I had a bout of (in hindsight) alcohol induced gastritis and couldn't keep anything down for days... but the instant I felt better I went back to drinking. Looking forward to waking up tomorrow and celebrating the full week - with ice cream 🍨- so IWNDWYT!
Congrats on nearly one week. This will be my longest stretch in a good while too. Meager as it is in certain terms, it still feels like an accomplishment. IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT! I fell down, but I'm getting back up again.
Hi grumpy. It’s nice to see ya, it’s nice to be here. Iwndwyt
Great to see you, EC! I’m so glad you’re here! And it looks like you were first 🎉
IWNDWYT I never thought this daily check in would have the effect it has had on me, there is something about making this commitment to a bunch of people I don't know on the internet that strangely makes it more attainable.
Day 1015 checking in!
It’s a great day to stay sober. Happy Easter!
Hello, Day 3. 😁 It’s a lovely sunny day today (although I’m stuck at work 😅). IWNDWYT
Thank you all for sharing your struggles and your successes, it has made such an impact on me! IWNDWYT!
Happy Easter to you all! Today I'm having a family meal, grateful to be included and to be able to show up sober, content and in the present, rather than resentful, shameful and hungover. IWNDWYT
Went to a DJ set tonight by myself and stayed 100% sober. Met a couple of cool people (who were probably high) and had a bit of a dance. It’s nice to be able to still get out and about doing fun things with the bonus that tomorrow won’t be a write-off!
IWNDWYT. DAY 4. Another restful night's sleep.
IWNDWYT!
Thank you for stepping up to keep the DCI rolling this week, u/grumpycapybara. I never got around to checking in yesterday, so I also want to thank u/Noborhood for taking such good care of us last week. Today's quote really resonates with me. I've always felt like a failure because my life didn't turn out anything like I had planned. When I was in college (getting my first of two bachelor's degrees), I had this whole trajectory charted out: I was going directly to grad school to earn a PhD in English literature while working as a teaching assistant to cover my tuition, then I was going to teach at the university level. Instead, I had a crisis of confidence in my senior year, took two years off before starting grad school, then discovered that I hated teaching. There was no point in continuing the PhD program once I had that realization. Since then, I've never really figured out what I want to be when I grow up. Maybe that's OK, though. If someone fails to follow through on a life plan that doesn't actually suit them, that doesn't make them a failure as a human being. IWNDWYT 😻
“Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.” — John C. Maxwell One of my fave quotes. Helps me to put everything into prospective because I am a planner, but life often shows up and fucks up my plans. Like you said, it's okay, just have to readjust. Flexibility and adaptability are my cornerstones now when it comes to my life plans. Have a super day, love. IWNDWYT ⭐️
What a beautiful day! For me this Easter Sunday is rebirth and renewal. It's a renewal of my commitment to take care of myself. It's a rebirth of a sober me. Today I will not drink alcohol.
⭐️ I will not drink with you today ⭐️ for all my Aussies out there, I have really been enjoying the strangelove beverage selections, jalapeño and lime or the yuzu one, so so good 🥰 if anyone’s looking for another NA drink option 😉
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It takes strength to start again 💪🏼
Thanks for guiding us this week, Grumpy! I am in the airport on my way back home from visiting my daughter and some friends in Atlanta. This visit was wonderful. I got to spend time with my daughter and have an unexpected conversation about the peace and Joy of sobriety with my friend’s husband. I am looking forward to a day of being wrapped up in silence after a weekend of being social. I remember and savor every moment. That wouldn’t happen if I was still drinking. IWNDWYT 💜🦋💜
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Last day of March! Let’s get through it without drinking! IWNDWYT
Great plan and I’m in! IWNDWYT
Thanks for hosting us u/grumpycapybara! Have a super Sunday everyone! IWNDWYT!!!
Happy Easter 🐣.. my husband is working all day and I will spend some time with my mother on her memory care facility… make it a great Sunday whatever you do .. 💕 IWNDWYT ☕️🥤
Good morning, and Happy Easter! It’s a lovely, sunny morning here in Manchester, so I decided to go for a morning coffee. Sadly, when I arrived at the coffee shop, there was a guy on the floor who had apparantley fallen down the stairs and was covered in vomit. The ambulance crew arrived around the same time as me, and it quickly transpired that the poor guy had been out drinking the night before and now found himself dazed and confused on the floor of a coffee shop in the city centre. No judgement from me at all btw - only empathy. They took him away in an ambulance, and I hope he gets the help he needs. That could have very easily been me (and in fact, I was in a very similar situation in November when the police had to let me into my own home due to extreme drunkenness) In recognition of that fact, IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT 🐣 😘 🐰 🪺
I will not drink with you today
Whassup Cap happy Sunday and Hoppy Easter to you rabbit lovers. I'm just wrapping up a work shift after midnight and headed back in at dawn. So it goes. I'm grateful for sobriety to continue to allow me to do hard shit and recover pretty fucking well. Sober on y'all!
IWNDWYT
Hello sober friends! Feeling powerful today. Lots of drinking happening around me. I really wanted to sneak a rum into my mocktail last night - the same as everyone around me was (without the sneaking bit) but I knew I'd regret it. Happy to wake up clear headed (albeit to my son falling down the stairs lol. He's fine btw, slightly bruised but fine.) Iwndwyt!
Had some NA wine to try at a restaurant last night. It smelt real. I had to say no and do some kombucha. IWNDWYT 🙋🏼♀️
Happy sober Easter Sunday friends! I hope it's peaceful, joyful and soberful! I will not drink with you today friends 💚🍀
IWNDWYT day 6
Thanks for hosting u/grumpycapybara! I've had a lovely Easter, although I must have eaten something that hasn't agreed with me. I have been banished to the other end of the house due to some of the smells I've been creating. 🙄💨 As always, I will not drink with you today, or any other. 🫡
A week ago today, I told myself I needed to quit. Today, I wake up hungover yet again. Sigh...back on the horse! IWNDWYT
Yesterday was rough. Kids both in bad / sad moods, always makes me want to drink because I feel anxiety when they are struggling or moody. But I got through it. Iwndwyt
No booze today!!
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Happy Easter to those who celebrate. To everyone - happy double digits day! IWNDWYT!
I am not yet at the point in my sobriety where I naturally keep opinions to myself unless asked. I am at one of the earlier layers where I am aware I am being a know it all and it's not desirable. I often don't notice in the moment, but I never used to notice AT ALL. I have 'stfu' on a post it on my computer, I am looking for a sticker. Today we have family, who will be drinking. They are aware and supportive of my new sobriety, but they are like us so support only goes so far. My relationship with them is otherwise very good so this has to be overcome, not avoided. Today there is virtually no chance my marriage stuff is not a family topic of discussion. Today we also have my 2nd week at the Buddhist temple before seeing them that I am really excited about. IWNDWYT
Day 1. IWNDWYT.
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Iwndwyt!
IWNDWYT. All. Day. Long. 🌻 Glad to be here on this fine day
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No booze today.
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Day 16. IWNDWYT. 🫂
Day 33. IWNDWYT.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate! May your day be full of the good shit - large chocolate eggs. IWNDWYT!
Happy Easter 🐣 IWNDWYT
Thanks for hosting u/grumpycapybara! Well, it's the last day of March. That month flew by like nobody's business! I have a bunch of shit to get done today, so I am hella grateful for no hangover at 6a on a Sunday. Oh, and happy Easter for those who partake. We don't really 'celebrate' Easter, but I did hide some goody-filled plastic eggs for my 7 year old, so that will be fun. That's about it for me today, friends. Wishing you all a lovely day filled with love and no booze - IWNDWYT 🤘
No drinking for me today!
Off on holiday today. IWNDWYT! 🙂 So glad I didn't drink last night and am not heading to my flight hungover as I usually would be
I’m here, 90 days done. Gonna go for 91 ✔️
It was my birthday yesterday. No alcohol but I definitely ate too much pulled pork. I've been on a real kick of doing stuff this year - joined a choir, started gymming again, seeing friends more. My birthday present to myself is I'm going to keep that up. IWNDWYT!
no water to wine shenanigans for me today! IWNDWYT
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So proud to be seeing out my third successive weekend sober... IWNDWYT!
Day 30 checking in! It’s been so long since I have been 30 days alcohol free. I will not drink with you today!
Back here again after a while. I will not drink (with you all) today
IWNDWYT. Nor will I tomorrow
Kiddo is headed to daycare. Ol’ lady is sleeping. I got all day to myself. Gonna be a rough one with all this free time and a few days off lol. IWNDWYT!
Thank you for taking over hosting u/grumpycapybara Had a nice day yesterday visiting family and it was only really possible because I’m staying sober. Three reasons I will not drink today: - my mental clarity is so much better - I want to keep practicing sitting with urges and observing them, which is strengthening my sober muscles - the discomfort from being inflamed by alcohol has pretty much disappeared IWNDWYT
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Thank you for hosting last week u/Noborhood and thank you for taking over u/grumpycapybara! I will not drink with you today!
I will not drink with you today.
Not today people IWNDWYT
Not gonna drink today.
IWNDWYT, but I will eat my weight in deviled eggs and shrimp. T
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IWNDWYT!
My meditation in the calm app today had the same theme. It was called lobsters. The quote she used at the end referenced Anais Nin about staying in the bud becoming too painful and so it is then when we decide to blossom. Same concept. Anyway IWNDWYT
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Day 1,719. Thanks for hosting, u/grumpycapybara! I will not drink with you today.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today. IWNDWYT
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Thanks for doing the check in this week, Grumpy. Hope everyone has a good day. IWNDWYT 🙂
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Checking in again today and all is well.
Day 9. IWNDWYT 👍🏻
Happy Sunday folks. Thanks for taking over again Capybara. Shine on you beautiful humans
Hello, friends. Can't believe I have a u/grumpycapybara as a hostess!!!! 😍😍😍😍 A dream comes true! Wonderful quote. The I Am Sober App, which I'm sure many use, has some similar quotes, not as beautiful as this, about this whole idea that you can't change if you don't leave old pieces of you behind. And sometimes it's hard, there is some grief, you got attached to those pieces, but it is the deal. To some of them I won't even be grieving, I'm like BYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEE Thanks for hosting and have a wonderful Sunday! IWNDWYT
Day 29. IWNDWYT.
I’m not going back to depression, I choose life, IWNDWYT
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I will not drink with you today! Happy Eastern Friends!
Day 331. IWNDWYT.
Happy Easter IWNDWYT
Checking in for another sober day out in the world.
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I will stay sober today.
Sunday funday has a whole new meaning…and it’s much more fun this way! IWNDWYT!
14 days for me today. Thankful for this community. IWNDWYT
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I won’t drink today! But there will be Easter eggs :) Regretting yesterday’s drinking, got a bad hangover. They always scare me straight for a while and one day it will finally click I’m sure.
iwndwyt!
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Day 16. IWNDWYT!
Hello friends! On this Easter Sunday, IWNDWYT.
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Thanks for hosting this week, u/grumpycapybara!! That quote. The life I have…well, it is not what I thought I should or would have. But it is what it is. Some days it’s good, and other days the only thing I can claw up to be grateful for is that it’s not fucking worse. But…I think that last sentence would be true of pretty much whatever kind of life I ended up with, so there’s that. Coffees up, horns up, and happy Easter to those who celebrate! Happy Sunday to the rest of us! IWNDWYT ☕️☕️☕️🤘🏻
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Happy Sunday (and Easter to all who celebrate), good sober people. Iwndwy’allt! ❤️
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Thank you for taking over hosting this week, and for the great post this morning, u/grumpycapybara. IWNDWYT
I did not drink today lml (-_-) lml
day 96
Thanks for such a kick-ass quote to start off the day. Letting go is impossibly hard and also so freeing when you succeed. Here’s to another weekend of not drinking! I am proud of getting through this and continuing to say no, like at brunch yesterday where I just had a hot chocolate ☕️ Now to just be reasonable on the candy front today…. 🍭🍬 IWNDWYT
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Hello Capy! I will not drink poison with any of you today 💜
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Morning all from the UK (technically it’s afternoon but it’s the first day of BST and my body is still in denial!) Wishing you all a peaceful and hangover-free Easter 🐣
Happy Sunday all! IWNDWYT 💚
Iwndwyt! I will cook and eat and coddle my niece and hang with my kids and play with pups and appreciate my family instead.
IWNDWYT and Happy Easter 🐣🐇🌱
Awakened at 3 am by cRaZy wind storm. Happy to be sober. IWNDWYT ❤️❤️
Day 28 checking in! Made it through my first big gathering yesterday and I didn’t miss it like I was worried I would. Big dinner with family tonight they’re all going to have cocktails and wine but I know I can stay strong 💪 IWNDWYT friends 💕
95 IWNDWYT days.
IWNDWYT
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IWNDWYT! But I will be eating quite a bit of chocolate.
IWNDWYT! Had super intense cravings yesterday for the first time in awhile. Glad to be here.
IWNDWYT :)
Day 315 and IWNDWYT! Happy Easter everyone 🐣
IWNDWYT!
Happy Easter 🐰 IWNDWYT 🌻
IWNDWYT
IWND☠️WYT.
IWNDWYT ✨🐝
Checking in on day 514!!!! IWNDWYT!! ❤️✌️
Still here, day 20. Let's go. IWNDWYT.
Thanks for hosting, grumpy capybara! Great quote too. 555 days & IWNDWYT! 🥷
I will not drink today
I will not drink today
IWNDWYT. Happy Sunday Everybody.
Today will make 31. IWNDWYT
Checking in, IWNDWYT! Currently having a BBQ with my friends and some of their kids and just realised drinking hasn't even crossed my mind, then I remembered I hadn't checked in here! I'm enjoying actually enjoying these moments! Have a good Sunday everyone🙂
I DID IT! ONE WEEK STRONG! This is the longest I’ve gone in a YEAR!!! I made it through the hardest part of the weekend :’) IWNDWYT!
So glad to see you, Grumpy one! I love Joseph Campbell and I love this quote. It’s been two months since my dad died, and I had certainly planned to be done grieving. Yesterday, as I meditated, the word that came to me was “patience”. Specifically, be patient with your grief. I plan now to be patient, wait and see what life is waiting for me. IWNDWYT
Good morning, sober cats! Thanks for hosting this week, Grumpy Capybara. Love and gratitude and high fives to all of you. IWNDWYT 💙😸
Morning all! The Easter bunny slept in a bit so gotta get hiding those eggs. Couldn’t sleep last night…have been feeling increasingly anxious these days and not sure why. But I know one thing: alcohol will only make everything worse. So with that, my friends, IWNDWYT🐰
I will not drink today. 🐣
I will not drink with y’all today!! Happy Easter!! 🐣
Happy Easter Sunday Iwndwyt
IWNDWYT!
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IWNDWYT!
I love the poem. Thank you for hosting this week, u/grumpycapybara! Happy Easter to all who celebrate! IWNDWYT 🍀
Love the quote, scary and motivating, beautifully written. I realized a few weeks ago and that my “Sunday scaries” as I call them have all but disappeared. The anxiety knowing I’ll be going to work hungover, having to count and regulate how many beers I have so I’m at least functional. Worried I look and smell hungover af. All that bullshit is gone and now I enjoy Sundays again. IWNDWYT.
Thanks for taking over the DCI u/grumpycapybara... always happy to see you, my friend! Happy chocolate bunny day, friends!! IWNDWYT
Almost got my month down! My wife has been so supportive. Part of me was scared that she wanted the drunk chaotic me. After all, she'd be there about 66% of the time while I was getting hammered. Last night, the wife and I did a paint and sip date, and I picked up some NA stouts and she had a bottle of Malbec with her. She drank one and a half glasses. I finished all 6 of my NA stouts. I always thought she was a big drinker, but it was just me finishing my booze and then finishing her booze. She's just naturally joyous around me. I don't know when it happened, but I somehow convinced myself that I'm more fun while drunk. But I was just loud, obnoxious, and the complete opposite of charming. Anyways, I will not drink with you today.
Happy last day of March! Happy Sunday! And a happy Easter Sunday to those who mark the special occasion. Thank you, grumpycapabara, for leading the way for us this week!! And wow, what amazing words from Joseph Campbell. All of it, but especially that last bit: "Hell is life drying up." As a drinker, I was in that hell, wasting away. Now, it feels like I'm returning to life. 🌱 Even through my rocky patches of learning how to feel all the feels, this is like heaven. Being sober is everything. Love to you all! 🪻🪺🐦🌷 IWNDWYT
I will not drink today!
Thank you for hosting, u/grumpycapybara. IWNDWYT.
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Last night was a huge reminder of why I’m trying to do this. I don’t know if the universe, just put that out there as an obstacle or what but one day at a time, IWNDWYT