Wouldn't be helpful for me, and I did the opposite when I quit. Invited "It" in for tea, as I knew we'd co-exist. and I wanted and needed that to be peaceful. my alcoholism is not my enemy, and so I don't fight. No need to. In the "old days"of my previous attempts, I was constantly at war with what is really a part of me, and I lost every time.
No demons. Just me. No virtue (as you call it) attached to my recovery, either.
Seems I couldn't embrace my sobriety without embracing/accepting my alcoholism first and continuously.
That's my foundation of my reality.