6 years sober today.

I used to think sobriety would make life smaller - less wild, less weird, less fun.

As it turns out, there’s far more magic on this side.

I’ve had six years of clarity, connection, cringey dancing, bad dates, belly laughs, brutal honesty, and real joy.

No filter. No blackout. No numbing.

Just me, all in.

And I couldn’t be happier.

@Daojoan congratulations on your anniversary!
@Daojoan Six years! That's great, Joan, and it's wonderful how you feel about it. <3

@Daojoan

When my father died in 1993, he had been sober 7 years. The most loving legacy he could've left us kids.

Congrats 💛

@Daojoan Thank you for this inspiration
@Daojoan congrats, and happiness on you!
(five years in a few days here)
@Daojoan wow!♥️ well done! A real inspiration
@Daojoan
It's been a win for us as well. Awesome
@Daojoan Awesome and congratulations! And we're so glad you're all in here, too. 🤗💖
@Daojoan not everybody gets a second chance in life. You have seized yours with alacrity and I salute you!
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Congratulations. It does feel good, doesn't it?
@Daojoan Congrats! And well said! Sobriety is vivid and amazing.
@Daojoan congrats, 38 years here in a few days
@Daojoan Congrats for being awesome 😁
@Daojoan Well done, I know it’s not easy.
@Daojoan Congratulations, and best wishes for continued happiness.
@Daojoan That's inspiring ; Thanks ❤️
@Daojoan YAY! and CONGRATULATIONS!♥♥♥
@Daojoan Congrats and here's to many more!
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Congratulations - and thank you for sharing.

@Daojoan Wow! Congratulations!

I know it isn't easy, but your perspective makes it sound so worthwhile. Not just the usual stuff about not wrecking your liver, your health, your life... but really making life better.

@Daojoan This needs to be said, and more often. So thank you.
@Daojoan Nearly 2 weeks for me. It is a start. I have to quit. No fucking around. I have no desire to go back to that dark place again. Congrats on 6 years!
@Daojoan there but for the grace of god. maybe someday. my health would probably appreciate it.

@Daojoan I wish I never started again. Was over 10 years sober. Was a few years before it became a problem, but it did. Now with Naltrexone it's been a couple months and it's been great, but I still wasted a decade on that stupid crap *after knowing better* and I'll never get that back.

Heard it put one day in a pretty accurate way I think: Fear of missing out.

I wasn't missing out. Not at all. Now I have though.

Same fear can keep you in it.

@Daojoan
To thine own self be true❣
Much LOVE & Many BLESSINGS on your special day💕🎉🌹🙏
@Daojoan awesome.
I knew my world was tiny when I was corked up in a bottle.
Now I’m free 🙏🏼
So grateful to be sober 18 years (in a few days)!
AA worked for me 🙂
@Daojoan Congrats! It's been approaching five years for me and clarity is the perfect word for it; you know the person you're going to be by the end of the night

@Daojoan

Well done on your hard won achievement. I hope your personal happiness carries you through the rest of your life. This is truly something.💙

@Daojoan I totally agree with you. My count is 15 years.
@Daojoan We've been watching MOM :)

@Daojoan Honesty creates space — for magic, for meaning, for all the weird, wild stuff that makes life worth it.

Wishing you continued strength and joy.

@Daojoan

Congratulations, we'll done, and it's so good to read you're so much happier this way! Enjoy ❤️

@Daojoan Mazel tov! Six years is quite an achievement.

@Daojoan Well done! One Day at a Time by Joe Walsh

https://youtu.be/xlfCyHbLdpI?si=tAVNvds6L2fd4o-d

Joe Walsh - One Day At A Time (Official Video)

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@Daojoan congrats! 🎉🩵💙🙌
@Daojoan @timo21 Congratulations - 6 years is a big deal. Collect as much time as you want 😉
@Daojoan what a gift. Congratulations. 💪🏻
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Well done.
Keep goin forward

@Daojoan nice! I am almost on the same boat, going over the fifth years as of now.

Sometimes I wonder, wouldn’t it be a tasteful treat — ice cold beer on a warm summer evening after getting out of the hot n sweaty sauna with the boys and running steamy named into the chilly lake to get that adrenaline hit. After, we would sit out and discuss all matters in life. To be honest; that I do miss the most.

But I cannot, so shall not. And will not, ever.

Life is incredible chaotic enigmatic art.