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Having some small impact on someone else’s life. My friends right now wouldn’t tolerate me drinking — it would be very strange for them. That also is a product of the way you are finally able to filter out people in your life who aren’t very supportive and aren’t very healthy for you. Those people kind of drop away as you get sober and now I’m left with the good people in my life.

• I recharge when I’m by myself, and I deplete when I’m with others—especially big groups.
• Carl Bonham, the executive director of the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, said last week the state has had several months of strong tax revenue growth lately, in large part due to income taxes.
• I reached out to people who were recovering from addiction and asked them to be involved in a piece about their experiences with finding strength in sobriety.
• We believe in the power of longevity and trust-building, always centered on creating a know-like-trust relationship with our audience and the brands we introduce to them.
• As a newly sober person in a community of drinkers, I feel a little lost.

Because I didn’t see that in my life. Being sober doesn’t mean your life is over. Many times when we see posts about sobriety, it’s always famous people or before-and-afters of people being a mess and then cleaning up their lives. It’s not like, hey, these are real people and they just do it every day.

Sober Story: Claire

I believed that alcohol enabled me to get through each day, it gave me the energy I needed to… “Over a 15 year period my drinking gradually went from problematic to dangerous.” “The hardest part for me was untangling the thread of romance from wine.”

I can share my experience as much as I want, but it’s not normalized. And I think that’s what putting something out in the media does. It puts it into the public eye and passes a value judgment on it and says this is good or this is not good.

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Sometimes the promoters didn’t care. He’s also featured in the “Night of Recovery” docuseries, which has Moore and other professional wrestlers tell their stories of addiction and recovery to an audience whose lives have been touched by the issue. It’s unbearable, but somehow you do. And you do it again and again and again.

It may also be helpful to get to know yourself on your own, first. Spending sober time becoming familiar with your body intimately can help you better communicate your needs to someone else when you feel ready for that step. Ask any sober person whether they want to go to a cocktail party or stay in with inspirational stories of sobriety a pack of La Croix, The Crown, and a bathrobe. I’d bet nine out of 10 of us won’t even answer, and we’ll just laugh because it’s such a ridiculous question. Sobriety doesn’t necessarily turn you into Liz Lemon, but it can give you the clarity to understand that you’ve been Liz Lemon your whole life.

Sober Story: Miriam

Let me tell you, waking up in the middle of the night with hanxiety and self-hatred is the worst – it’s zero stars from me. When I was drinking and using drugs, I tried to have a voice, but I was using it in the wrong way; I was using my voice for manipulation — to get what I want. I wasn’t advocating for myself as someone trying to make a positive difference. Join our community to receive timely updates on how technology is helping to break the stigma around Alcohol Use Disorder. This week’s Sober Story comes from Gail, a 60-year-old living in Westport on the West Coast of the South… “I knew that getting alcohol out of my life was the most important achievement in my life.”

• China’s leaders pledged to diffuse risks linked to the property sector, local debt and small and medium financial institutions.
• Drunk me didn’t worry if she belonged, or said the right thing, or had to have small talk because drunk me just handled that.
• While making the decision to be sober was the best thing I’ve ever done, it’s also one of the hardest.

There is no one way to deal with this. It’s part of the sobriety package, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sobriety can be an incredible way to shed relationships you’ve outgrown as well as find new ones that align with your new values. While it can be emotional and heartbreaking to watch some relationships veer off course, all you can do is trust that friendships will disintegrate or grow organically, and whichever direction they take is probably for a reason. Be patient and uphold your own standards.

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I didn’t really know what my purpose was. I knew I wanted to do things and I would start to do things, but there was never any follow-through. Because I would start something, get taken over by the disease, and then abandon it.

Any information published on this website or by this brand is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, and you should not take any action before consulting with a healthcare professional. This week’s Sober Story comes from Jean, a 51-year-old living in Alberta Canada. Jean writes the recovery blog UnPickled…

What it looks like for me is that I now have tools to be a normal, decent human being, which I wasn’t before. So sobriety for me is like a bridge back to a normal life. It’s not my whole life, but it can be a bridge to where I can reconnect with people in society and I can reconnect with friends and family and use tools that I’ve learned to engage with another person. Caring less about yourself and caring more about helping others.

• That being said, you might not be at a place where you want people to know you’re not drinking, and that’s OK.
• If you’re like most drinkers, you’ve likely surrounded yourself at some point with a group of people who also drink.
• I got out of debt, started a company that provides digital recovery, launched a podcast, and am in the middle of writing a book.
• Join our community to receive timely updates on how technology is helping to break the stigma around Alcohol Use Disorder.
• Ask any sober person whether they want to go to a cocktail party or stay in with a pack of La Croix, The Crown, and a bathrobe.

When was the last time you closed and then opened your curtains? You stand there, looking out the window with the curtains open. Then you close them and open them again.