July 24th, 2019 Mrs D's Blog
People often ask me, how did I do it? How did I quit and stay quit? Here’s my answer.
First of all I spent about two years having a brutally honest dialogue with myself about my alcohol habit. I didn’t hide from the truth or deny how bad things were. In those two years I told myself over and over and over that my drinking wasn’t healthy, that it wasn’t functional, that it was out of control and getting worse, and that something needed to change.Once that firm decision had been made I attacked learning how to live sober with 100% of my being. I adopted an open, curious, determined, willing attitude… clinging to the knowledge that it was possible to live happily without alcohol (because I saw others who were doing that), and maintaining a belief that it would get easy eventually (again, because I saw others who felt that way).
I soaked up all the information I could find, through numerous different outlets, to educate myself about sobriety and recovery. I saw it as a great challenge and intriguing test, imagining myself as a human guinea pig as I explored my own transformation.But, however you choose to go about transforming your life, I do recommend you keep these steps in mind;
Love, Mrs D xxx
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