Simply taking alcohol out of my routine created a whole lot of free time, alone, with my own thoughts, and guess what? that meant thinking about drinking, which eventually after my own mind grinded me down lead to the inevitable, for me mere abstinence didn't create any long term results!!
Instead I needed to not merely take out alcohol but pro actively create a new life, new routines, a new Sober lifestyle, fill my time with new activities, new projects, reach out and carve out a new life.
Sobriety for me became a new way of life, revolutionizing my time, my activities, even as far as my friends, taking away alcohol on it's own created a very boring life and always lead me back to drinking as I didn't have a life to be proud of or any activities to fill my life with.
Abstinence was simply the foundation to building a new Sober life, it was only the blueprint and the start of the journey!!
