Everybody Remain Calm

This Week on Diary of a Sober Girl

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I am so grateful to be sober. I’m grateful I got to see my sponsor run in the marathon yesterday, I’m grateful for a slow weekend and a long weekend coming up. I’m grateful to be seeing my family on Saturday, for Timmy’s anniversary this month, for the puppy laying on my lap as I type and for coffee. I’m grateful for my friends, for the Fall, for books and for AA.

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Gooooood morning my friends (: As always, I hope everyone had a lovely weekend full of rest, relaxation and whatever makes you happy during the weekend.

I’m not 100% sure how to write this post today without my own anxiety seeping through but I would be remiss if I didn’t say anything at all.

This is a pretty charged week. Today feels like, at least to me, calm before a storm. Tomorrow I’d like to burry my head in the sand and God only knows what the following few days and honestly weeks will look like.

I personally am really scared. And I’m not here to cause a rift in our community. I am here to tell you and remind myself that we do not have to drink.

Many will say that politics are an outside issue, and I hear that. I understand that. But the anxiety and fear and hopelessness one might feel as a result of politics is not an outside issue. That can make you drink.

Please don’t let it. Please pick up the phone and call someone. You don’t have to talk about politics you can talk about how you’re feeling. Please go to a meeting. Please lean on the people you love. Please don’t face it alone.

Please don’t drink or use. I don’t know if I can say that everything will be okay. I believe that our higher powers take care of us all. I believe that if we have each other, we will be okay in one way or another.

Let’s all just try our best to remain calm. If you are someone who is unbothered, please help someone who is. If you are someone who doesn’t care that’s okay, just please be there for the people who do.

No matter what side you’re on please remember that we are all just people, trying to do life sober and please don’t let that get lost. We need each other today and every day.

Lots of love,

Jane