Recovery The Recovery Thread (2022)

[Jabberwocky]

Happy new year all and good luck to those working on their recovery

Old thread here

For me personally 2021 was a mixed bag.

The good:
- Climbed 2 mountains (never again!! love hiking, less interested in 4am wake ups to nearly kill yourself on a mountain)
- Ran 20k
- Bought a sweet house with my boyf and settled in well
- Cats did not kill each other and continue to bring me endless joy and amusement
- Lost nearly 2 stone, putting me back in the healthy weight range
- Continued making my amends to my family and boyf
- Did not seriously crave crack or heroin at all
- Work is going well and I got a nice pay rise
- EDITED COS I MISSED A SUPER AMAZING ONE- neither me nor my sister has either of the gene variants that have caused so much grief in our family. this is like flipping a coin 4 times and getting heads each time, where tails is incredibly invasive, horrendous medical interventions that will impact your entire life

The bad:
- Failed to quit drinking, and its escalated to the point where it is massively impacting my quality of life
- Relapsed into an eating disorder and developed behaviours I'd never had before, was always restrictive so purging was never a big part of it
- Went to zero gigs
- Ongoing investigations about health concerns that I'm pretty certain are related to smoking at least an 8th of crack a day for a long period, and having respratory depression continuously for 6 years due to heroin
- Older cat, 13 nearly 14, is starting to show signs of ageing
- Got fucked over by collaborators at work

Hopes for 2022:
- Stop drinking properly
- Stop purging
- Daily meditation
- Conceive a child