Take the lessons you learned that kept you sober for 7 months and apply. Remember what it felt like when you were confident. Focus on that feeling and let it carry you. Also, get into a gym with a good partner and put that anxiety down with exercise.
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My AA sponsor tells me that my alcoholic thinking will eventually bring me back to that drink. âI get drunkâŠWe stay sober.â Sobriety can not be done solo. Find a support group like AA. get a sponsor.
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You can and you will just look for that light at the end of the tunnel waiting for youâ:muscle:t6:
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Failure has always been a part of success so don't be hard on yourself just get back up and keep it pushing
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When we were learning to walk, we fell. You just have to get back up. Keep getting back up. Don't give up.
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Just remember...it doesn't matter how many times you fall as long as each time you get back up. You got this. One day at a time.
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What i just read is that you're human and you're trying your best in an imperfect world. Keep your chin up, please. You're not going to win every fight but you can win so so many of them! Keep at it. We're all in your corner when you need some help!!
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The program i work â/A in our literature states; that relapse can be the jarring experience that trusts us in to a more Vigorous program of recovery ; Relapse is part of my story. Put 11 years together and went out now ? Haven't picked up sins 07/20/23 . We can do this, just not alone 
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The other day when I hit my 18 month mark I had a memory on FB from the year before that I posted that I had 6 months at that time. That being said, not everyone gets it their first go round or even the first few tries. It's the lessons learned that we pay attention to that make the new life easier to obtain. I'll always remember what an old school said when I started going back to meetings. "None of us showed up here on a winning streak" I'll never forget that and I remind myself of it a lot. I hope you find peace and don't get too down on yourself. Just keep showing up and it gets better. đ«
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Iâm trying so hard to to get back to where I was when I got sober initially. Thank you for your encouragement. Itâs so frustrating, disheartening and heartbreaking being an alcoholic. Iâm my own worst enemy. Thank you. I need to keep my chin up through this process. I was so proud of myself until I wasnât.
Great advice! So true. I thought Iâve got this! 7 months then I tripped up. Iâll remember that. Muchly appreciated
Iâm really trying to get back up. Thank you for your encouragement. This time of the year is hard. Not making excuses. I did it last year so I can do it again.
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Iâm not bc I know I have to for my own physical and mental health. I just have to get back to where my mindset was when I quit. Thank you all so much for your encouragement and support.
If youâve ever done a 12 step group, you know there are a lot of fun quips and phrases. Thereâs a lot of tribal knowledge in social norms within the rooms and within the recovery community in general. Well, I will absolutely from my bones encourage you to read all of the literature about the neurology, sociology and physiology about addiction, including alcoholics, anonymous, and narcotics anonymous (even if either/neither of these apply) I have a very contradictory opinion about sobriety. I have found that I do my best consistently when I do not consume myself in the idea that I am an addict. I do not identify as an addict on a daily basis and the first step of it for me was actually a concept taken from Stoicism Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius both spoke on the idea that we do not have to entertain every single thought that comes to our mind. A lot of people break this down and simplify it as âjust because youâre thinking about having a drink doesnât mean youâre going to drink.â I have struggled greatly with mental health throughout my life, and that idea changed everything. Feelings are only ever real if they are spoken out loud or put on paper otherwise they are simply a chemical imbalance in our brain and while they are useful for survival, they are also self-destructive. And if youâre anything like me, youâve heard youâre an entire life the fun little catchphrases âyou are what you eatâ or â the way you talk about yourself to yourself mattersâ. And I explained it like this: if I wake up every day and my first thought is that I am an addict and I will always be an addict, the world is a bad dangerous place, I have no worth.. as above so below; as within thus is the world, we create for ourselves. All I will see is bad things in the world, and that will give me a reason to believe that I am bad and I will burn all the progress I made down. If I choose the delusional radical belief that the world is inherently a beautiful place, and that people naturally are trying their best to be good humans, I will then see the beauty in the world and then it doesnât become radical and then I will see the good in people indirectly causing me to see the good in myself, and then it isnât delusional. If you are thinking about a red truck, you are going to see a red truck I truly from the bottom of my heart hope this helps.