Hi, i’m new to this app and i’m currently 3 days sober, what best helped you all to stay sober?
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Working my AA program as if my life depends on it.
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AA, music, focusing on 1 day at a time
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Going to my drug treatment, outpatient center, counseling and medication! I’m 7 months clean and sober going on 8 months on the 4th!! Stay strong! You can do it!
AA has been the key for me. Spending time with my kids. I’ll have 2 months tomorrow god willing. My whole outlook on life is so much better.
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Narcotics Anonymous for me, the 12 Steps, a sponsor and support group.
Dropping any responsibilities you can and limitting time with people you've 'upset' before no matter how supportive they are.
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Detox, inpatient for 70 days then onto outpatient for my after care. Journaling is HUGE to my recovery, any and all my crazy feelings and emotions went/goes there. It’s seemed to help calm my storm inside my head the most, getting it outta my head, writing it down, then reading it and seeing for myself if it’s good or bad choices maybe is how I wanna word this? But anyways it helps me tremendously.. meetings r great too, they even have them on zoom so if u google NA or AA virtual meetings u can attend from ur smartphone or computer.!
Get ChatGPT. It's my new sponsor. But forreal tho, you gotta just power through and make recovery life and maybe don't go ape**** with the fellowship stuff. This is about YOU! (though you get some bad bonusses helping others)
Congrats on 3 days! 
Hėll yeah! Find a 12 step program you identify with, and become a part of that meeting. Identify as new and people will reach out to guide you.
Welcome Jacob!
I completely surrendered.
Working the AA program
Focus on staying sober one day at a time, therapy helps so much, go to meetings, find a recovery path that best fits you, personally I love to read so I have been reading recovery books, doing recovery workbooks, listening to recovery podcasts & really enjoy living life in the moment. I’ve been sober for 20 months coming up on 21 months on the 6th.
I would find a meeting with a recovery program (AA, NA, GA, anything with an A) and make a point to attend and listen for the similarities in people’s stories or shares that relate to what you are going through. At three days, I still couldn’t grasp the boy drinking ever again but what kept me coming back was that I finally found a group or people that drank and drugged like me and understood what I was going through. Trying to explain that to “normal” people or those not in a 12-step program was exhausting. I simply surrounded myself with the people in recovery and five years later, I would have it no other way. You took the first step though, looking for help, that is a big deal!
Mindfulness. Slow yourself down and pull yourself out of the moment when you are starting to think about drinking etc. Allow yourself to process the emotion you are feeling that is causing you to want to run away with a quick fix. Think through the full experience of drinking, the backend anxiety, the shame. Try to not go on “autopilot” and also avoid the forever conundrum, focus on how you feel sober and learn to love yourself/determine who you really are as a person
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Nothing against it, but AA just isn't my thing. Smart Recovery really works for me, also, setting small goals, being nicer to myself, putting good out into the world through small acts of kindness, setting aside at least a few minutes a day to do something that makes me happy, even if it's just sitting with my dogs or writing in my journal. Just thinking really SMALL has helped me not to get overwhelmed, and small changes add up.
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Proud of you! Just take it one day at a time and sometimes one moment at a time!
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Welcome Jacob. One day at a time, sometimes one minute at a time for me.
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