Finding out who she is sober
Getting sober can feel like a question mark. Who will you be? What will you do? How will life change? Can you be happy? Will it be worth it? Am I being too extreme? There is only one way to get the answers to these questions. Get sober. Here are some things I have done to get the most out of my new sober lifestyle.
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I used to think you had to be an alcoholic to have a drinking problem. To me an alcoholic was someone who was physically dependent on alcohol. They needed it to function. An alcoholic drinks alone and hides bottles of booze in their house. And while this is true, alcoholics fit this description. There is another level to drinking that society has normalized.
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It was late November. My husband and I were vacationing in Florida with a group of friends. I got drunk the first night. So drunk that I didn’t remember a lot of it the next day. I had a horrible hangover accompanied by anxiety that made my skin crawl. I wanted to leave my body. I laid in bed sweaty and restless.
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