My Proudest Accomplishment
This Week on Diary of a Sober Girl
I am so grateful to be sober today. I’m grateful for seeing my family, for my parents landing safely in Seattle, for my friends, for our pup and for rest. I’m grateful for AA, doing service, for my sponsor and her patience, love, kindness and tolerance. I’m grateful for being honest, for beautiful weather, and for coffee.
Goooodd morning my friends (: As always, I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and is ready for the fresh week ahead.
I personally have a horrible case of the Sunday/Monday morning scaries after having a 4-day weekend. The thought of logging on to work today truly makes me want to crawl into a hole but yah know, bills mut be paid so to work I go.
Last week was filled with lots of emotional and spiritual lows so scaries aside I’m really hoping that this fresh week is much better than last.
That said, I spoke at a meeting yesterday which was a great opportunity to get a lot of my shit verbally out into the world – needing to reground myself yada yada yada all the stuff you guys have heard me share here a thousand times.
But what came out yesterday that is really important for me to remind myself of as my email starts to blow up and slack and work and all of the to do’s – getting and staying sober is my proudest accomplishment.
I’ll never get an award for that, but I get to keep it close to my heart and share it with other people every single day and no one can ever take that away from me.
So, while I struggle with who I am and where I want to go in life it is important for ME to remember that the hardest thing I ever did was stop drinking and seek help. And every day there after I have said no to drinking and continued to at least know help is available to me even when I don’t want to take it.
Every day we go out into the world as sober people and continue to not drink or use. And if we can do that, we can do literally anything else. I am proud to navigate life with zero substances to lean on. I am proud to help other people do that. So essentially there are no issues and everything else in my head (news flash Jane), and that is okay.
As long as I’m not drinking it’s all. Very much so. Okay.
Xx
Jane