Thank you for the accountability Time-Hop

So I had this gut feeling as I was approaching the year mark to being alcohol free that I picked the wrong start date to my journey. I did my best when I first got an app to really try and pin point when I thought I started—I wanted it to be accurate.

I used to make these “Ava cocktails” videos and send them to friends which was me just having a liquor, some juice and sparkling water and call it a day—usually it was to cheers to the end of the day or cheers to the weekend. When trying to find the date to say this was the last time I did this I came to July 22nd. However, today time hop reminded me that on July 28th 2023 I partook in some alcohol. I will say this though, I still haven’t had anything to drink because I haven’t felt the “need”, so I still made it a year! (We will just say that July is my one year anniversary month 😅😵‍💫)

I should have when choosing a date went with July 30th like my original guess back when I realized in August 2023 that I was taking a long break—but I really wanted to feel more accomplished? I wanted to get as close as I could to accurate..even though I wasn’t right haha

Cheers to me though because even when feeling overwhelmed, sad, and anxious I still chose to do something different than to end the day with a glass of alcohol. ✌🏻

(Also I swear to goodness if time hop shows me another instance of me getting my date wrong I guess I’ll just say GOOD ENOUGH and refer to my post about the lessons learned because regardless of the actual date, I had some really hard things to learn this year without anything to “make it better” aside from my own self work and damn it, I put in the work to know that a cocktail out with my husband is where I want to go in regards to my alcohol consumption, not a “treat” to end my day with)