Does it really keep getting better once you get sober??
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Big City
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Does it really keep getting better once you get sober??
A resounding yes. I can't say this strongly enough. When I was drinking I read so many comments from people on SR about how things would get better. I guess I believed them, but there was a skeptical part of me that always questioned it - sort of like someone who leaves the job you are at and tells you just how great life is now that they work somewhere else. I've known too many people to exaggerate and fudge that, it's human nature: "Oh life is just amazing since we moved out of ____!", "My new job is terrific", etc etc.
I'm almost 10 months sober, and I have had a share of ups and downs during these 10 months. Nothing tragic, but definitely not all peaches n cream. I've been working hard - new business, new baby, physically disciplined, trying to be present for my family. I'm lucky in many ways, but I believe we make our own luck as well.
What I just want to stress for those who are still struggling, like I was and like I did for YEARS (check the join date
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Sobriety does not cure being human. What it does is give you the gift of life.
Life is just there waiting for us to get sober. And when we do, it's ours for the taking. If we do the work.
I'm almost 10 months sober, and I have had a share of ups and downs during these 10 months. Nothing tragic, but definitely not all peaches n cream. I've been working hard - new business, new baby, physically disciplined, trying to be present for my family. I'm lucky in many ways, but I believe we make our own luck as well.
What I just want to stress for those who are still struggling, like I was and like I did for YEARS (check the join date
) - it absolutely, indescribably, entirely, in every facet, gets better. There are days we wallow in self-pity, regret, frustration, ennui etc etc - but that's being human. It gets better sober. Control, peace, confidence, calm, energy, joy - things that were so fleeting for me as a drunk, now are daily occurrences. Sobriety does not cure being human. What it does is give you the gift of life.
Life is just there waiting for us to get sober. And when we do, it's ours for the taking. If we do the work.
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Powers Lake, Wisconsin
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Yes, it does!
It feels great to be thinking and feeling like a human being! The world becomes so much "brighter" and there is an incredible freedom and peace from not being tied to a substance.
It feels great to be thinking and feeling like a human being! The world becomes so much "brighter" and there is an incredible freedom and peace from not being tied to a substance.
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: West Tn
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Well spoken, LG.
Sobriety has permitted me to live a fairly "normal" life.
I'm an active participant in my life - not a spectator sitting on a barstool, like I did every night.
This is a gift that I want to keep at all costs (including going to any lengths).
Sobriety has permitted me to live a fairly "normal" life.
I'm an active participant in my life - not a spectator sitting on a barstool, like I did every night.
This is a gift that I want to keep at all costs (including going to any lengths).
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Join Date: May 2018
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Thanks LG
in my less than 9 months, I feel so much better too.
Doesn’t mean every day is happy
Doesn’t mean I don’t romanticize my past drinking sometimes
It means I’m free from the chains of the Shame of addiction.
Free from toxic body bloat
Free to participate in life
Free to be physically, mentally, and emotionally present.
Free....to be ME
in my less than 9 months, I feel so much better too.
Doesn’t mean every day is happy
Doesn’t mean I don’t romanticize my past drinking sometimes
It means I’m free from the chains of the Shame of addiction.
Free from toxic body bloat
Free to participate in life
Free to be physically, mentally, and emotionally present.
Free....to be ME
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 1,149
1 year 3 months sober.
It's like I've been released after being chained to the walls in a horrible stinky, dirty, dungeon for a LONG incarceration and am finally breathing fresh air again.....Freedom !
It's like I've been released after being chained to the walls in a horrible stinky, dirty, dungeon for a LONG incarceration and am finally breathing fresh air again.....Freedom !
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