The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Off To Find The Summer Sun and Sobriety!

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Hello, I'm Mouse :)

Welcome to the Bus, take a seat and enjoy the ride. We're a Bus full of drinkers, non-drinkers, those who are trying to give up for life, those who are giving up for a few hours because that's all that they can manage (which is fine!) or quitting just for today......

We don't wear Judgey Pants (they're far too last year darhling ) but we have hugs a plenty and tough love when it's needed. Which isn't often!

So, what have you got to lose? If you're reading this, you're thinking that you are no longer happy with the way you drink, which tells me that this is the Bus for you. :)

If you'd like to see where we've been so far and what we've been up to, take a peek HERE

And if you want to knnow why we're here in the first place, take a look at THIS THREAD RIGHT HERE :)

See you soon x

Hi babes
Checking in before I hit the sack
Sober as a judge :)) here.
The bath/bed/story routine did the trick.
Bobbly well done you! If I'd if even taken a few sips of alcohol I don't think I'd have stopped :( especially when I'm in one of my "moods"... And great about the run. Two miles! Wow. Think how fab we will feel in the morning:))
Thanks to all the babes who gave me that bit of encouragement. It really helped made me think twice. That is just one of the reasons I bloody love this bus..
Good night babes. X

Got through day two by the skin of my teeth. Dds been fighting all evening, work have cocked up my shifts and I've felt so tempted to have a glass of wine. So I've took myself to bed early.

Faire I think dh got me wine because he likes me drinking! I'd bought him lager which he likes but as I wasn't joining him in drinking it he's been acting like he's being neglected. We rarely go out since having dds, staying in drinking has become the norm, so maybe he feels like I'm taking our 'social life' away??

baby hope that seat still stands for tomorrow
I will be starting day 1 with determination it's not gonna beat me even if it has tonight
Thank you lovely's for your encouragement hope your all having a good evening
X

tango I'll keep you a seat. Night babes, I'm cleansed, toned and moisturised and off to read my kindle, may not be rock and roll but it feels good, simple pleasures keeping me sober and I think my 14 year old may have smiled at me, can't be sure but it sure looked that way, like I say simple pleasures x x x

Well done babes, good going. Night all sweet dreams

Message for silver

have you been taking naltrexone as part of the Sinclair method

Good on you all who resisted the ww. I did not. I thought 'just one' that turned into half a bottle and a beer.

Day 1 tomorrow. I have to. Tips for resisting pretty please? I am going to write a list and go through each thing one by one.

Sweet dreams everyone who is asleep.

Morning Red.

Never mind you are ready to start again and that's the important thing.

I'm not sure if you have children, sorry, but one thing that has helped me is.....a long time ago a poster on here said that if she felt like a drink she looked at her children and then made herself put the kettle on for a cup of tea, I remember she wrote 'my children will not be growing up with an alcoholic for a mother.'

It really really chimed with me espec having grown up with an alcoholic parent myself, so I have a particular photo of my DC that I look at and I 'play the film through to the end' and reminded myself that if I carry on the way I was, I WILL be that alcoholic parent that I so dread becoming.

I know that is a bit wispy washy but visualisation has really helped me in this journey at times. The other practical things are get some other treat in like nice chocolate and a fizzy drink, have a good book to read, go to bed dead early so you don't have hours fighting the WW......or go out til very late and drive so you don't drink and go straight to bed when you get home.

You can do this because honestly if I can..............

Morning all other babes, hope you have a good day,

Pink X

Wishy washy! Not wispy lol.

Morning Pink.

Thanks for that, what you say makes perfect sense. My DM turned into a different person when she drank alcohol. Short tempered, erratic, occasionally violent. I will NOT be that person, or that sort of mother.

I have written a list of 18 things so that each time the ww whispers at me, I do one of those things. I have always found that the urge does not last for long. It may be frequent, I may usually give in, but when I resist it does not last for long.

I think getting a treat in is a great idea too. I never eat chocolate, because of 'the calories'. sheesh. What calories could there possibly be in all that damned alcohol I drink?

Today is Day 1. I may be posting a lot today. Thanks Babes.

Lots of positive day 1s and 2s today. Day 2 for me. I second early bed as a way of avoiding ww altho it isn't always possible depending on age of Dcs and twattishness attitude of your dp.
Here we all go,hand in hand, to face another day. Opal fruit anyone?

Well done isinde i like to call it dangerous day 3. It's amazing how much we forget in 48 hrs. And subsequently how we can convince ourselves it's okay to have a drink. Watch out for the WW today and her devious ways. X

Morning babes I heard that someone was dishing out the Opal Fruits...

Hi bus babes. I've ridden a while ago, but fell off and need to get back on with a new name - any space?
Been drinking to deal with difficult emotions (anxiety and anger) since I was 17 and revising for exams. It's gone up a lot since having my boys in my late 30s. DH wishes I didn't, is kind, but it is easy for me to just feel ashamed, embarrassed and also rebellious - so I am at the point of hidden spirit bottles in bedroom or pantry. Ashamed. DH just wants me to be healthy and grow old with him, and watch kids grow up. I sometimes feel world is so grim that it is not worth being healthy in the future....
Not drinking in the day, except occasionally at weekends, generally just the evenings, at that witching hour and beyond.
I can drink to reward myself after a tough time, and to numb myself when low due to anxiety, anger, pmt, etc. Can really drink at any excuse
On anti d's since youngest son was two, he is nearly ten now.
Parents very anti alcohol when I was young, and still are. Fair amount of family history of breast cancer.
I feel like alcohol is the only fun nice thing I get to do some days, I know this is ridiculous, and that I have a good job, nice house, lovely hubby and well children who are both doing OK.
Oh, and am anxious about oldest boy starting secondary school - day after tomorrow - bringing back dire memories and feelings....
Need to spend some time with you girls who have managed to stay on the bus and to reduce your drinking.
I'm equivocal about stopping, know I should for others' sake, but not convinced within myself, and need to be.

Hi Blue - you are in the right place - posting that first post is really really hard - well done.

welcome and jump on board

We're all different Silver.

bet you like the purple ones Purple

Welcome blue.

Colours of the rainbow here. :)

I am doing okay. had a wine spritzer, and that is it. So not day one. But I am not going to beat myself up, because it is the self hatred that leads to my negative spiral.

Going to bed at 7.30

night night. >>>

Hi Babes - just checking in. Thinking of you all, whether drinking or not, struggling of winning.

Mouse is such a lovely and supportive lady; just wanted to say that. Thank you, Mouse.

Xxx

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