Two Years Sober!

It has been interesting and at times very challenging. My sobriety led to the end of my relationship with an abusive partner. It led to moving back to my hometown, finding a job, then relocating again and holding down a full-time job that required extensive travel. All stressful stuff when you’re learning how to cope and live without drowning out the noise with booze. However, I have persisted, and my life is gradually beginning to evolve; most importantly, I am starting to feel that life is okay.

We live in a time and place where many of us are constantly facing difficult decisions and a raft of otherworldly bullshit. While for most of us, these are not life-or-death situations, we still have a pretty rough time navigating them. We’re all Warriors in here in these sobriety communities. I know that we are all trying our damn best and some days do seem absolutely impossible. I realise that this is pointing out the obvious, but I’m here to share just a little bit of what I have discovered about sobriety and living two years on.

Being sober heightens our awareness of both the outer world and our inner voice, as well as the conflicts we all experience. Not drinking may seem harder at first because many of us have never experienced living sober as adults. I’m still learning and some days are hard. Some days, I come home from work crying and exhausted, and I fall onto my yoga mat, just knowing that everything will be okay.

Yoga has been one of my key tools for maintaining solid sobriety. Even if you cannot get down onto a yoga mat, you can do some yoga sitting in a chair or lying on your bed. It’s not just about physical movement; it’s about what’s going on upstairs (in your mind) and how you breathe.

I have also begun to accept that it is okay to feel tired, frustrated, angry, disappointed, and any other negative emotion you can name. Yoga helps me to stop and see that these emotions are not me, they are just feelings based on my observations of what’s going on around me. And yoga helps me stop and look at why I react in these ways.

Many of my negative emotions stem from feeling as though I’m not being heard. The anger, frustration, and disappointment, in turn, affect my ability to speak out and ask for what I truly need. It’s an ongoing field of work for me. It won’t change and get all better overnight just because I’m aware of it. Learning to breathe and allow, to speak up when I’m ready, is a practice.

One day at a time, I remind myself.

I started writing a few things down about being sober this morning. It went like this.

When I’m sober:

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  I smile often.
  
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  I can drive a vehicle whenever I need to.
  
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  My life takes on an entirely new dimension.
  
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  I sleep better.
  
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  I can recall what I said to somebody last night.
  
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  I notice things about myself more easily and can understand why I might be feeling a certain way.
  
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  I can develop new friendships easily.
  
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  I notice and pick-up on how others are feeling.
  
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  I enjoy waking up.
  

Try it! I’m sure you all have plenty to add to my little list.

Stay well Warriors. No matter where you are on your path, if you have made a choice to stop drinking, it is a huge step.

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