Originally Posted by
FreeOwl 
For me.... increasing inner peace is an outcome of sobriety, not a requirement for it.
Originally Posted by
CAPTAINZING2000 I'm about as mellow as I can be these days
FreeOwl and the Captain both expressed what I feel in sobriety. In some ways I feel like I must be a completely different person because I'm so zenned out these days. But I'm not different, I'm finally who I was meant to be.
For me the greatest gift of sobriety is inner peace.