Coming to Terms With Sobriety
Are you struggling coming to terms with your sobriety?
On episode 158, I talk about my own journey and the process it took for me to come to terms with my sobriety.
If someone told me when I was young that alcohol would mess up my life, I wouldn’t have believed them.
For a huge part of my life I drank excessively and at one point I felt like life and wine needed to go together.
After years of wondering whether or not I had a problem, I had to listen to my own thoughts and feelings instead of anyone else’s, and I made the difficult choice to quit drinking.
You are never alone if you feel like sobriety is something you never planned for your life.
Topics Discussed:
The word "sobriety" can be scary
How I am always working on old behaviors I notice
Ways I work on acceptance within myself
How I once believed in the stigma surrounding sobriety and alcoholism
Feeling like an outcast after quitting drinking
How I had to pay attention to my thoughts and feelings in order to see my situation
Objections people have to quitting drinking
How you don't need to ask for other people's opinions to make a change
You define self-care and what makes you feel good
Focusing on Self-Care and acceptance vs. sobriety