Good read. I’ve been sober for like 7 years or so and one thing I learned from all of it is that it’s easy to find other surrogate activities that work the same as drinking even in sobriety. For me, politics sort of served as an ad hoc identity since my entire previous identity had been built around my boozing. Raw dogging life in sobriety is tough but as some point it forces honesty out of you.
Thanks man, yeah mine was video games, I went so ridiculously hard on them at the start. Just swopped them for drinking one to one. It is tough, to become 'Yourself 2.0' you're definitely right. Congrats on your seven years, I am seven years also (Aug 2018).
Good read. I’ve been sober for like 7 years or so and one thing I learned from all of it is that it’s easy to find other surrogate activities that work the same as drinking even in sobriety. For me, politics sort of served as an ad hoc identity since my entire previous identity had been built around my boozing. Raw dogging life in sobriety is tough but as some point it forces honesty out of you.
Thanks man, yeah mine was video games, I went so ridiculously hard on them at the start. Just swopped them for drinking one to one. It is tough, to become 'Yourself 2.0' you're definitely right. Congrats on your seven years, I am seven years also (Aug 2018).