thank you!

In the early days, when I’d stopped drinking “just for a month, yeah, see what happens?” I once woke up, absolutely furious with my partner, completely livid, because he’d given me wine in my dream.

Poor guy was blamelessly asleep in his own bed on the other side of London at the time, and had been nothing but supportive of my not drinking.

Brains are weird. They use dreams to work out stuff while you’re not looking.

Congratulations!

You’ve got this!

When I was just stopping drinking “just for a month, yeah, see what happens?” it was May. Cricket season in the UK. “Can I do, sober, the things I used to do with a glass in my hand?”

Turns out I can. I found some good non-alcoholic alternatives for the glass of wine with dinner (I like a high-end fermented tea/kombucha that doesn’t hide the flavour of the tea with additions like fruit). Lord’s lets you take your own drinks in so that was handy.

There’s some really interesting AF beers out there now, too.

I’m guessing you’re in Australia, from your time zone? These go well with food https://www.non.world/

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

welcome, we’re glad to have you here 😊

Congratulations!

Good to hear from them, thank you for sharing.

I’m sorry I missed posting the DCI at the weekend, I’ve been at a family event so my routine was all out of whack.

Amazing, congratulations!

congratulations!

Can you join any social groups where you are? Not necessarily specifically sober groups, but are there any third spaces like games clubs, maker spaces, somewhere you can get out of the house and meet people?

excellent. Not sure where you are but in the UK I find Bird and Blend do good herbal teas that make good iced teas.

Welcome, we’re glad to have you here.

So, why did you drink? How did you get to that point? What supports do you have in place that you can reach for when the urge to drink is at a 1 or a 2, so it never gets to a 9 or 10?

“I never have to have another day 1” is a huge benefit to me.

Enjoy your bike ride 🚵🏻

congratulations!