Good morning sober peeps!!
We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we’re here together!
Welcome to the 24 hour pledge! I’m pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same.
Maybe you’re new to c/stop drinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe you’re like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe you’ve been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.
It doesn’t matter if you’re still hung over from a three day bender or been sober for years, if you just woke up or have already completed a sober day. For the next 24 hours, let’s not drink alcohol!
hello all happy monday, almost day 5. rollercoaster of a day. put in an official complaint about the nurse who doesn’t like addicts, survivors, she’s going to get cooked next shift, learned a ton about myself and my emotions in class then I saw my xbox buddy who I’ve only met 4 times in 15 years (I got so bent at his 21st he hasn’t drank since) and dropped off supplies and chatted for a couple hours which was really uplifting, THEN
AA/NA meeting, stassies first meeting and she shared a lovely passage from a meditation book and talked about her best mate who’s still in addiction. usually the host holds up a pen if a bit goes on too long but he interrupted her saying she needs to talk about her own recovery, stassie snapped and ran out of the meeting cause she was so embarrassed and she said I’m never going to another meeting again. so I wrote a letter to the host saying he broke the interruption rule and should have held up the pen, he ruined the meeting and needs to apologize to all 5 of us especially stassie and that im thinking of casting a vote for a new host cause I feel that was completely unacceptable. it’s a support group ffs.
fk the pen, fk the subject matter there was 5 of us in the group and we have all the time in the world.
decrepit old bastard saw me later in the hallway and apologized profusely and if the group agrees he’ll step down as host. I just said good and went to bed and wrote this.
been a wild ride gang, cant wait to see what drama happens tomorrow. 2 and a bit weeks to go.
courage to change the things I can.
You’re going great. Good for you sticking up for stassie. The meeting is part of rehab group, yes?
thanks very much, worst parts over. yeah but it’s run by patients, staff don’t get involved. im learning the preamble and thinking of hosting but I feel resentment towards steve which is a huge part of AA so im going to forgive him after he apologizes to everyone but theres going to need to be some changes. recovery is basically fucking difficult and im a firm believer in letting people share what they want cause recovery takes all shapes and sizes. fuck the pen, share about your day mood loved ones whatever, its just good to get stuff off your chest. there was a serious power imbalance, he was thinking of himself as the boss when he’s supposed to be a humble servant of the people and there’s going to be some changes.
courage to change the things I can.
cheers I really look forward to meetings but none til friday.
Are you allowed to hang out and commiserate with the same people during the week? Is there not group therapy at rehab?
oh of course yeah there’s all kinds of classes about like emotion regulation, sleep hygiene, distress tolerance all that good shit