Congratulations!
And I agree with your message to people new to recovery. Have faith that things will get better. Because they will, if you stop pouring the booze into your body. In my case there, was nowhere to go but up, and I knew that. And I was in a recovery program surrounded by people who were farther along than I was, and I could see that their lives had improved. So even on my darkest days in early recovery, I had faith.