Sobriety - the quiet revolution

Community member @blackcat published this update in the Members Feed recently and I thought it so powerful it's worth publishing here as a Guest Post.

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Day 749.

107 weeks & weekends of freedom. 

Waking up sober is still a total joy, although it started out being more pure relief that I ticked off another day sans the booze.

I reckon the biggest win with putting down the booze (for me), is that I no longer hate myself, and I hated myself with a passion when I was at peak pisshead.

It was because booze had stripped away any shred of self worth, self respect and ergo, self love that I had.

And it's not like you quit drinking and bingo, life is all amazeballs.

Its more a quiet revolution that happens without you even knowing it. Like when you achieve something (no matter how bloody small) that would have been a total nightmare when you were drinking, but sober you can do hard things.

Little by little, day by day, that self talk gets kinder and more positive and you start to reclaim you.

Sobriety to me is strength.

It's joy at being in the moment (and not missing the moment cos I was shit faced).

It's a kind of peace that just didn't exist when I was drinking.