So hard when all your emotions come back and flood in at once, and just having to sit there with them and feel them.
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But the thing about emotions is they usually won’t last that long. Like dark clouds in the sky. Hang tough Kelly B!
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I’m right they are with you. I am two months and two weeks sober and it definitely comes in waves. I am just starting to realize there are so many things in my life I never grieved- I just numbed out with drugs and alcohol. Letting these feeling move thru is uncomfortable. Often painful. Feeling feelings instead of stuffing or numbing them is ultimately freeing though. I don’t ever want to be trapped, trying to get away from them again
You will be stronger for dealing with them. Hang in there. I went on a two week dry drunk after my 4/5 step because I had to feel all those emotions. After a bit I felt lighter. You will too! Reach out to someone if you need it, or reach out here… we got your back!
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Thank you for the support and you’re absolutely right I’m 8 days clean today from a little set back and it’s been rough my body still physically hurts and it affects my mental but I definitely don’t want to return to where I was it’s just dark, I know there’s a light at the end of feeling things 
I appreciate you sherry
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I always find it's easier to sit and feel the emotions now than to push them away and have them come roaring back later, with a vengeance.
It’s definitely not easy. But this is the longest I’ve made it without drinking or drugging in 29 years And I am clinging to it like a life raft. Deep inside I know that sobriety is my life raft if I can just hang on. You can too, Kelly! Hang on with me! 🫶🏼