The Freedom Room Sobriety Tips

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  • Make sobriety and your recovery your number one priority. After all, drinking was your priority. PUT IT FIRST.
  • TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME. Thinking about quitting for a long time can seem terrifying. Taking things one day at a time is more achievable. Just concentrate on getting your head on your pillow sober tonight. Concentrate on getting through this minute, this hour, this day.
  • STAY AWAY FROM THE FIRST DRINK. You can not get drunk if you do not take that first drink. It’s the first drink that does the damage.
  • Keep hydrated. Think HALT. DONT GET Hungary, Angry, Lonely, or Tired.
  • Please KEEP IT SIMPLE, eat well (especially before you’re drinking hour), and make a plan that lists your triggers and how lousy drinking is for you (relationships, as a parent, financially, living life to the full, work-wise etc.) Think the drink through. What would be the outcome if you picked up that drink today?
  • AVOID TEMPTATION: Walk-in dry places. In the early days, it’s a good idea to avoid situations where you may be tempted or influenced to drink. I promise this is only short term. Once your recovery is in full swing and you have worked the steps to emotional sobriety, you will feel free and safe to go wherever you please.
  • Use our Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/453086099263595 Virtually everyone who struggles to quit drinking requires some form of peer support—as with any goal, quitting alcohol is easier if you have friends supporting you. Sober connections are so important. The group can encourage you to stay sober, and you can learn how other members got through this. Other 12 step fellowships are also excellent.
  • JOURNAL, Journal and Journal. Write down what it is you want. How do you want to live? Think solely of these things.
  • Think positive, remove as much negativity from your life as you can. GRATITUDE needs to be the new attitude.
  • DON’T GIVE UP. Give it all you have, 110%. It is not easy, but it’s certainly worth it. Let us be honest, Anything in our lives that is meaningful has been complicated and challenging at times.
  • SELF HELP BOOKS: These can boost your confidence and motivate you to stay sober. You can never have too much help, can you?
  • KEEP BUSY Write yourself out a timetable, don’t get bored.
  • HONESTY, OPENMINDEDNESS AND WILLINGNESS, be honest about how harmful your drinking was, be honest if you slip, be open-minded that change can happen and the ways that it can happen Have the willingness to listen, learn and change.
  • HAVE FAITH. look and learn from the people who have walked this path before you, all who have thought it was impossible.
  • TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER. We are stronger together. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.