Nice work!
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I'm happy for you and your 30 days. And you have no reason to feel embarrassed. I was always taught that what others think of us is none of our business.
And I wouldn't try to analyze people's thoughts either because we don't really know what they're thinking.
I've been around this thing for decades and I know all the pitfalls so I just want to say to you because you seem very, very excited about this 30 days. Not that it's not an important milestone because it is. Just watch out for the pink cloud syndrome.
30 days is great but it's not a lot of time and we can develop what's called pink cloud syndrome in the early days of our new journey into sobriety.
Pink Cloud syndrome tells us that everything is perfect in our lives right now after a very short time of being sober. Pink Cloud syndrome tells us that our lives have been completely turned around since we quit drinking just a short time ago.
I promise you that you will be looking through a different set of glasses a year from now. I've seen people develop pink cloud syndrome. They get 30 or 60 days or just a short period of time and then they go back out and they have no idea in the world what happened. The problem is they didn't have a proven program in place. They were operating on sheer willpower.
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Way to go Viviane, that's huge!
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Wow! That’s incredible 
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Thank you for the feed back Dave, I am operating as of now on will power.
Thank you for your beautiful share. 
30 days is an important milestone, Congrats!!!!!!!
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Thank you 
This is my story to a T!!! And I’m on Day 29! Good for you for choosing yourself, your health and happiness.
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Awesome
Let’s go!!! 
We are deserving of our deepest desires and once our inner world change the outter will too!
I’m so happy for you Lisa! Keep going! Boundaries and values
Amazing! Love the positivity ! You look great
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Proud of you! Keep it up 
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well said!!!! In June I met a friend for lunch with another friend of hers whom I was meeting for the first time… it was almost exactly at my 1 year mark… they were drinking and after my second Diet Coke they were like “the heck?” So I told them I’d been sober and her friend- whom I’d just met- said “WHAT! Why?! Did you have, like, a PROBLEM or something???” It was honestly funny, she didn’t mean to sound vindictive but it did. It felt pretty rude. But I knew she didn’t mean it that way so I laughed and said something like “I guess today, sober, it’s not such a problem anymore”… anyhow, she texted me last night bc she’s 11 days sober and I’m the person apparently she thought of when she decided to quit, and was reaching out for support. I’m not exactly surprised, that’s what sobriety and a life/program of sobriety does for us :). I’m proud of you! what you wrote really resonates with me and how I was when drinking. You’re setting a new example for yourself* and others*.
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Great work. If it’s 20 minutes or twenty years; any amount of time sober is something to hang your hat on. Just remember EASY DOES it. We didn’t get here in a day but we stay the course one day at a time. If you ever need support or advice please reach out. This is a great community with a healthy hive mentality.
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Very well said Dave, working a program and staying connected are key.
Viviane, you achieved your 30 days one day at time… congratulations 
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Do you have a plan?
I got sober through AA;
Meetings, sponsor and the 12 Steps.
I have something for you that really opened my eyes.
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are
"restless, irritable and discontented"
unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks—drinks which they see others taking with impunity. After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the
"phenomenon of craving"
develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over and over, and unless
this person can experience an
"entire psychic change"
there is very little hope of his or her recovery.”
Can you relate to any of this?
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That’s so awesome. I share a lot of those exact examples. I’m 87 days sober and couldn’t be happier. Congrats!
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Thank you! It felt so good me to get this off my chest and release what no longer is for me. I don’t have to continue carrying these horrific stories and extremely grateful to have a community to do so without feeling ashamed.
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You can’t live in your past. Always be present. Yeah we did some shitty things… oh well. Rock on 
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Thank you Drew! I’m so grateful I have a community of transparency! No sugar coating the dangers of alcohol.
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