Today I am 7 years sober. Actually, I do not use the word sober to describe myself. Sober is a word that does not describe what it means to me to be free of alcohol – Today I am 7 years Alcohol-Free! Never underestimate how your words can help change someone else’s life. I can
6. I am loving life sober because stress is more manageable when I start my day fresh – related reading How to Override your Lizard Brain7. I’m more productive at work8. When I sit forward on a chair I’m way less likely to fall of it in front of everyone9. Zero alcohol means less anxiety
Something that hit me pretty hard in early sobriety was anger. Sometimes I’m just MAD as hell. It’s pretty amazing, actually, the amount of anger-energy that comes out of me. Madder than a hornet in a coke can. I’m mad that I can’t just keep moving on through my life as ‘normal’, mad that I’ve
Have you ever wondered what it means to be an alcoholic? When it seems that many people do drink habitually, what is the difference between deadly drinking and just a normal sort of “drinking too much”? I have heard people speak of addiction as a sliding scale. If alcohol addiction is a sliding scale from
