Success Story: An Amazing Journey to Sobriety

Sobriety has allowed me to become the woman I have always wanted to be, but couldn’t because of alcohol and everything that it masked. SELF does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

I attended daily AA meetings for the first ninety days. Later, I cut back to three to four meetings a week as I returned to taking call at work. At the appropriate time, with the guidance of my sponsor, I was able to make amends to everyone I had harmed, including myself. When I first got sober, I spent the first year finally seeing myself in a way that I had been completely unaware of. And I actually felt a huge relief when I realized what my problem was because I felt like I finally had a solution.

Brett A🥳 2 Years Sober 🤯

Stuck in a cycle of achieving success and self-sabotage. It took a near death experience to accept recovery.

I grieved the girl that would have had champagne at her wedding and red wine on vacation in Italy. No matter how much I knew I absolutely needed to leave her behind, it was really hard. Addiction takes a sledge hammer to your confidence because you lose all control and constantly break promises to yourself. My confidence took longer to build back , but it’s one of the more noticeable changes I see in myself. For about the first 7 days, I felt like a shell of a human being. It was Groundhog day over and over and over and over again.

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A musician and surfer diagnosed with epilepsy. Always striving to function in society to avoid having to stop drinking.

In 2013, my boyfriend, myself and my son could no longer afford our apartment so we moved in with his mom. She made it clear that we needed to stop drinking.

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It turns out that she was right and, in the most surprising way, I’m glad she was. On a daily basis, I have to stick to a morning routine that includes not looking at my phone for the first hour, journaling, The Daily Stoic, and a long walk. I pay attention to my nervous system throughout the day. I go to therapy every other week, consume a ton of mental health content, and am always in connection with other sober people. Those new connections have been a gift for me.

Before I got sober, I remember thinking that sober people were boring. I thought sober people didn’t go out, that they didn’t do anything, and I was honestly weirded out by people who didn’t drink. I think it’s important for people to know that just because I’m sober doesn’t mean I’m dead. I go out dancing, I’m 100% me, I can literally do everything I did before except I just don’t drink.

Relationships will change.

I had a miscarriage, I was so out of touch I sobriety success stories even know that I was pregnant. My University asked me to leave and everything came to a halt. It was the catalyst that led me to surrender. “Growing up, I had a lot of insecurity. I couldn’t cope with looking in the mirror.

• The young girl ended up in the foster care system, where she was physically and sexually abused.
• I was one of those people who if someone put something in front of me, I would take it.
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• I began hiding bottles in the garage and under the seat of my car so I always had access to alcohol.
• It gave me the confidence that other people seemed to possess naturally.