It's hard - the truth is, in my experience, life doesn't make accommodations for us, whether it's in our quest to get sober or otherwise. There are ways that you can take a step back from things for sure. But I found that not drinking, each and every day, made things easier and easier (at least to deal with) and that the time and space necessary to try and deal with life started to present themselves. There's never enough time in the day of course, but the major gift of sobriety, for me, was that my life is mine again, for the first time.