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Sober On A Drunk Planet

Sean Alexander

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  • Introduction 3 Sober Steps (Location 73)
  • The problem is that our brains are hardwired to do the easy things we have always done (drinking!), and anything that challenges the norm is seen as a threat. That threat manifests itself as lies, manipulation and “f*ck it” moments to make us believe we can have “one drink”. (Location 86)
    1. Creating Self-Awareness (Location 100)
  • Without building self-awareness around how alcohol was negatively impacting your life, you wouldn’t be here now. (Location 101)
  • discover why (Location 103)
  • Building self-awareness is about stopping auto-pilot from happening and giving you back control. (Location 109)
    1. Taking Positive Action (Location 113)
  • It all comes down to taking action and staying sober means continuing to take action. (Location 117)
  • The good news is that this all gets much easier over time. As you will discover shortly, the mind is capable of profound change. In time, you can begin to take healthy and rewarding actions subconsciously instead of doing the destructive behaviours you’ve always done – on auto-pilot. (Location 120)
  • Remember: If an action doesn’t move you towards your end goal - to stop drinking alcohol and stay sober - then it’s NOT a positive action. (Location 127)
    1. Building Your Intuition (Location 129)
  • Sobriety creates a life-changing positive feedback loop that rewards you again and again. (Location 156)
  • Enhanced self-awareness, combined with positive action, will allow you to develop your intuition – enabling you to make better, healthier, and more rewarding decisions. (Location 187)
  • Chapter 1 You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know (And What You DO Know Might Not Be Correct!) (Location 192)
  • If you’re regularly regretting your behaviour, it’s certainly not aligning with your values. (Location 201)
  • “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” (Location 209)
  • A study of the world’s adult population showed that 58% of people hadn’t consumed any alcohol at all in the previous 12 months. (Location 214)
  • Why What We Believe May Not Be True (Location 229)
  • If we think alcohol will relieve stress, it’s no wonder we head to the bar after a stressful week or open a bottle of wine at home. But the problem becomes apparent when we realise that feeding alcohol to an already stressed body and brain is the worst possible thing we could do. (Location 258)
  • In order to process alcohol, the body releases cortisol. Cortisol is literally known as “the stress hormone”.7 It’s a physiological impossibility for alcohol to truly relieve stress. (Location 261)
  • Why We Do What We Do, When We Really Know We Shouldn’t (Location 265)
  • The theory goes that people feel “unease and tension” when they hold “two beliefs that contradict one another”. (Location 266)
    • Note: THIS MAY BE A BIG REASON WHY IVE BEEN FEELING WHAT IVE BEEN FEELING THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. I HAVE ALL THESE MAJOR GOALS VISUALIZING THEM AND YET IM DOING THING CONTRARY TO ACHIEVING THEM.
  • Maintaining cognitive dissonance is an easier and more comfortable option than doing what you should be doing – especially if it involves challenging beliefs that may have been embedded since childhood. (Location 270)
  • Famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith said, “faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone opts for the latter” (Location 293)
  • Self-Awareness And The Inner Child (Location 301)
  • It’s rarely the alcohol or the drugs that are the underlying problem. Instead, addiction becomes a secondary problem to covering up past events or trauma. (Location 303)
  • Studies have even suggested that “there are significant links between our behavioural tendencies when we’re just a few months old and our later personality”. (Location 306)
  • Dr Carl Sagan14, “until we fully understand our past, we may never truly live in the present”. (Location 309)
  • Focusing on the solution only, i.e. stopping drinking alcohol, is only part of the equation for a strong recovery. Overcoming past trauma by reliving it in the present is how we become stronger and more resilient to traumatic responses. (Location 323)
  • Doing the inner child work is a HUGE part of managing future situations. It will help you move past and manage those past traumas so they no longer impact you today. (Location 327)
  • Subconscious rewiring begins “with deciding what you want – right now and in the future – and focusing on it”. (Location 330)
  • Developing Self-Awareness For Sobriety And Beyond (Location 333)
  • The strategies you dismiss may well be those that would benefit you most. (Location 338)
  • Learning and Gaining New Knowledge (Location 342)
  • Seeking Feedback (Location 369)
  • many people avoid seeking such feedback – due to the fear of having their egos dented by hearing something negative. This fear can cause them to avoid asking for feedback or ignore it to protect their ego. (Location 372)
  • Being receptive to feedback is a path to growth and long-term sobriety. (Location 381)
  • Reflecting on Your Actions and Asking Powerful Questions (Location 382)
  • the grit to ask yourself powerful and searching questions. (Location 383)
  • You may discover that “alcohol makes me more fun” actually means “alcohol makes me more reckless”. You may find that “alcohol makes me relaxed” means “alcohol makes me lazy and unambitious”. (Location 393)
  • When you’re trying to boost your self-awareness, be that toddler. Keep asking yourself questions, and go deeper until you have nowhere else to go. (Location 404)
  • When you begin to discover the answers to these powerful questions, you must own the answers. Taking responsibility for your actions is essential, and not pass the blame onto others. Shifting the blame won’t get you to the root of your problems; it merely gives you a distraction. (Location 405)
  • You must keep coming back to the “I” – to you – for this process to be effective. (Location 414)
  • There are differing examples there, but the point is that the further you’re willing to head into that rabbit hole, the more you will build your self-awareness. You can reach a point where almost everything in your life makes sense. People often call these moments “epiphanies” or “eureka” and “lightbulb” moments. (Location 422)
  • Listening (Location 442)
  • M. Scott Peck said, “you cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time”. (Location 456)
  • Pushing Out of Your Comfort Zone (and Taking Healthy Risks) (Location 459)
  • A surefire way to learn more about yourself (and to become more self-aware) is to put yourself into new environments, do new things and meet new people. (Location 460)
  • “get comfortable with feeling uncomfortable!” Sobriety is all about exploring new things, new environments and new people. (Location 462)
  • Therapy and Inner Child Work (Location 472)
  • you know what you do, but the key to making lasting changes is working out why you do it. (Location 495)
  • “Self-Therapy” With the Power of Journaling (Location 510)
  • Taking the time to write down what’s in your mind is therapeutic in itself. The words that end up in your journal hold the key to all kinds of deep insights. (Location 518)
  • Never underestimate how powerful a consistent journalling practice can be for quitting alcohol, staying sober and maintaining a positive mindset. (Location 524)
  • Meditation and Mindfulness (Location 526)
  • “mindfulness is a quality (while) meditation is a practice”.23 That said, people often practise meditation in order to work on their mindfulness. (Location 530)
  • Breathwork is another powerful tool, (Location 536)
  • Exercise and Nutrition (Location 544)
  • You’ve no doubt often regretted agreeing to go out “on a school night” or opening the second bottle of wine. But, have you honestly ever regretted going to the gym, pushing yourself in that spin class, or shaking off a bad day at work with a run? (Location 553)
  • “Why am I here?” (Location 567)
  • Chapter 2 Dreams Without Goals Are Just Dreams: Goals, Positive Action And Intuition (Location 571)
  • Regular drinkers often find themselves without any true goals. (Location 574)
  • Nobody truly aspires to just survive. (Location 580)
  • “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” (Location 587)
  • Why Set Sober Goals? (Location 589)
  • It’s achieving the small goals that edge you towards achieving the huge ones. (Location 593)
  • The “just for today” mindset that’s widely promoted in anonymous groups is a powerful tool to help you achieve your goals. (Location 595)
  • Achieving things feels good and sets off a healthy feedback loop. (Location 598)
  • Setting manageable goals is as key to giving up drinking as it is to achieving anything else in life. (Location 600)
  • “Rewarding” every feeling with booze is a reliable way to destroy your emotional intelligence. It’s rewarding yourself for suppressing feelings and failing to learn to deal with them in a healthy way. (Location 614)
  • A SMART Way To Stop Drinking (Location 617)
  • How Do You Achieve Goals? Positive Action (Location 669)
  • I’m not pretending that it’s a walk in the park. Over time, your brain becomes wired for avoidance. It tricks and manipulates you into doing the easier things, which are usually the things you’ve got into the habit of doing. They’re certainly not the things that are outside your comfort zone. (Location 685)
  • write a list of positive actions you can take to move you towards your goal (Location 692)
  • find that the ones that seem hardest are the ones that will move you the quickest towards your goal. So if you can summon the motivation to tackle those first, it’s likely to pay off. (Location 701)
  • How Action Breeds Intuition (Location 707)
  • Chapter 3 The Sober Child: Emotional Intelligence And How To Apply It (Location 741)
  • True emotional intelligence is also about empathy and how well you understand the emotions of those around you. (Location 744)
  • Why Emotional Intelligence Is Key To Your Sobriety (Location 748)
  • Our emotions drive our actions, so the more we can recognise, interpret and regulate our emotions, the more chance we have of taking the right actions. (Location 749)
  • Alcohol is a numbing agent that prevents us from truly recognising our emotions and taking a healthy course of action to deal with them. An emotion comes along, and rather than sitting with it and dealing with it, we bury it with alcohol. And it’s not just alcohol – people often do the same with drugs, food, sex, gambling and other things. (Location 772)
  • When people stop drinking – sometimes for the first time in decades – they are left to deal with all of the emotions they used to bury with alcohol. In some cases, if they lack emotional intelligence, they struggle to even put a name to those emotions – other than the basic selection described above. (Location 794)
  • Emotional intelligence matters because it allows us to navigate life with less stress, less emotional reactivity, and fewer unintended consequences. It’s key to replacing negative feedback loops with positive ones. (Location 803)
  • Avoiding hitting that “f*ck it” button is what you need to work through. It WILL feel uncomfortable. You have to get used to the feeling of being uncomfortable because that’s how we stay sober and grow in all areas of life. (Location 818)
  • You have to become self-aware of that feeling of irritability. You need to recognise it and learn what positive actions you can take to regulate the emotion that sets it off instead of pressing that big red button. (Location 822)
  • How To Recognise, Interpret And Regulate Your Emotions (Location 843)
  • Stage 1: Recognising Emotions (Location 846)
  • Emotions can manifest themselves in all kinds of ways (Location 848)
  • To see the full-size Emotions Wheel please visit: www.soberonadrunkplanet.com/emotionswheel (Location 852)
  • Stage 2: Interpreting Emotions (Location 857)
  • To interpret what an emotion actually means for you, you will need to step back from being reactive. Instead, you will need to create space to feel that emotion and think before taking some appropriate action to deal with it. Then, using the tools mentioned in the self-awareness chapter, you can create that space to interpret them. The alternative is an ill-judged and inappropriate action (which could well be deciding to drink). (Location 863)
  • Stage 3: Regulating Emotions (Location 872)
  • Emotional regulation has two unhealthy extremes. (Location 873)
  • overreactive (Location 875)
  • shut down (Location 877)
  • Thankfully, there’s a healthy mid-point on the emotional regulation scale: creating the space to feel and think before acting in an appropriate way. This could mean calmly but firmly stating your position – and then, once again, evaluating what to do once you hear your friend’s response. (Location 885)
  • millions of people spend years, if not a lifetime, stuck in an unhappy cycle due to the inability to recognise, interpret and regulate their emotions. (Location 901)
  • In terms of staying sober, understanding your emotions helps you not to react to them by drinking. Instead, you regulate them and respond with safe alternatives that will help you to avoid drinking altogether. (Location 905)
  • Resentments And The Art Of Letting Go (Location 917)
  • Resentments do two things: They stop you from being fully present, as you are always thinking about the past situations that caused the resentment (for example, not getting that promotion at work). They take up a lot of energy. You’re constantly thinking about the resentment, and you wind yourself up, which also causes physical stress. (Location 922)
  • I resented everyone and everything because I was so deeply miserable about my own life. Alcohol and other drugs felt like the only temporary solution to that feeling, even though I was quickly heading for rehab. (Location 931)
  • When you start writing down, on paper, who and what you resent, you quickly spot a pattern: Alcohol turns you against the world! What a tragic place to live when you hate everyone and everything. (Location 937)
  • Signs You Are Emotionally Maturing (Location 952)
  • Chapter 4 People, Places And Things: Understanding Cravings And Triggers - And How To Deal With Them (Location 977)
  • over time, alcohol depletes your natural dopamine levels. As a result, the brain adapts to the unnatural dopamine flood and produces less of it. (Location 984)
  • Triggers are different to cravings, but they’re closely linked. In fact, triggers are the things that lead to cravings. (Location 986)
  • You must become self-aware of the triggers and cravings so that you’re in a position to take positive action to avoid a relapse. The more you do this successfully, the more you build intuition and start trusting your subconscious to make those decisions for you. (Location 993)
  • positive feedback loop vs negative feedback loop. (Location 996)
  • study shows that the release of dopamine can be brought on by nothing more than the expectation of consuming a substance. (Location 1002)
  • It’s essential to work on removing those strong links between drinking alcohol and various people, places, and things. (Location 1005)
  • People (Friends, Family And Colleagues) (Location 1010)
  • “the friends that mind don’t matter and the friends that matter don’t mind.” (Location 1014)
  • You’ll probably need to take more extreme action in the early days to avoid triggers than you will after some solid sober time. It will take time for new habits to form and new neural pathways to be created, so patience and perseverance are key. (Location 1019)
  • “sober buddies” (Location 1022)
  • Sobriety is your only goal - so don’t give other people the power to derail it. (Location 1032)
  • Places (Pubs, Clubs, Holidays, Sports Venues, Funerals, Weddings, And More!) (Location 1033)
  • Things (Literally ANYTHING) (Location 1048)
  • How To Cope With Triggers (Location 1061)
  • stress is often the biggest trigger. (Location 1065)
  • strategies for coping with the triggers you can’t avoid: (Location 1075)
  • Seek the support of others. (Location 1076)
  • Sit with the feeling. (Location 1078)
  • What you’ll find is that that feeling passes anyway. And it gets easier every single time. (Location 1080)
  • Remember your reasons. (Location 1081)
  • Find distractions. (Location 1083)
  • Think of a series of activities you can turn to when you’re struggling. Don’t underestimate the power of a ten-minute walk around the block or a quick wander around a bookshop or record shop to treat yourself with the money you would have spent on booze. (Location 1083)
  • Play it forward. (Location 1086)
  • think about how you’ll feel tomorrow morning if you break your streak of sober days. (Location 1087)
  • Just go! (Location 1088)
  • Chapter 5 The Sober Ego - Understanding And Taming The Ego (Location 1098)
  • Thinking back to my own drinking days, I’m now self-aware enough to know that my unhealthy sense of self (my ego) put up a LOT of barriers. It prevented me from empathising with others, learning about the world, and recognising opportunities. I made far too many decisions based on an illusion of who I thought I was, not who I truly was (or, deep down, wanted to be). (Location 1130)
  • So your ego reverts to what was easiest. Eat what you want, when you want and don’t worry about going to the gym. This false sense of self has inflated again, and it thinks it knows better. (Location 1135)
  • Stopping drinking without doing the hard yards on self-awareness and intuition can leave you in a “dry drunk” state (Location 1142)
  • How To Manage Your Ego And Use It To Your Advantage (Location 1149)
  • Watch and Listen To Yourself (Location 1150)
  • hyper-aware of the things you say that focus around “I”, “me”, “my”, “mine”, and “myself”. What are you truly saying? (Location 1151)
  • self-awareness is key. (Location 1155)
  • Remain Humble (Location 1158)
  • Receiving and processing (rather than arguing with) feedback from others is also hugely influential in keeping yourself grounded. (Location 1159)
  • Be Teachable (Location 1162)
  • Everybody you pass in the street knows a bunch of things you don’t and is better at certain things than you. (Location 1163)
  • There’s nobody you can’t learn something from. (Location 1171)
  • Avoid Ego Battles (Location 1172)
  • Don’t Talk About It – Do It! (Location 1177)
  • The way to impress people isn’t to talk about your achievements; it’s to achieve them. (Location 1178)
  • Don’t Chase “Likes” (Location 1181)
  • The ego really gets off of social media. So be careful how much of it you allow. (Location 1184)
  • Present the Facts (Location 1185)
  • Make POSITIVE use of an Alter Ego (Location 1189)
  • As long as you don’t become your alter ego, it can be used as a powerful tool in work situations, social situations, and other times when you need to “come out of yourself” a little more. Just remember to check in on your ego to ensure you’re not falling back into old ways. (Location 1195)
  • Chapter 6 Old Ways Won’t Open New Doors. Practices To Help Prevent Relapse And Strengthen Your Sobriety (Location 1207)
  • The Attitude Of Gratitude (Location 1214)
  • Gratitude works much better than booze. It’s a completely free tool that staves off envy, dissatisfaction, and entitlement. These strong emotions can cause relapse at any stage of sobriety, not just at the beginning. (Location 1226)
  • When you become grateful for the things you do have, all of your other “wants” become less important. As a result, they become less able to impact you emotionally. That’s a big deal because it means you’re way less likely to hit the big red “f**k it” button and relapse. (Location 1235)
  • A great way to start is by developing the habit of listing three things you are grateful for every single day. (Location 1241)
  • being grateful for things that come from outside yourself. (Location 1252)
  • It’s important to practice deep, meaningful gratitude. “I’m grateful for my cat” is a relatively meaningless statement. Think about why you’re grateful for your cat –the fact he makes you feel comforted and safe (Location 1253)
  • Embracing “JOMO” (Location 1258)
  • JOMO (Joy of Missing Out) (Location 1259)
  • Over time, a repeated decision to set boundaries, say “no”, and be the driver rather than the passenger can start to drastically change the direction of your life. (Location 1266)
  • To relate this to everything you’ve learned so far: Being self-aware means knowing that if you go out without a sober plan, you’re likely to repeat the patterns of behaviour that led you to read this book in the first place. Taking positive action (or inaction, in this case) means saying “no”, resisting peer pressure, and doing what’s right for YOU. Building intuition involves learning from the times you make the right choices: “I felt great last weekend; I want to feel great again.” (Location 1268)
  • Limiting Beliefs vs Positive Affirmations (Location 1274)
  • Be grateful that you still have hope. Because if you are dead, you have no hope. (Location 1283)
  • Look Into The Crystal Ball Of Drinking (Location 1313)
  • “play the tape forward”. (Location 1317)
  • Visualising these likely scenarios will help you to take the right actions. That may mean saying “no” to the invitation (and indulging in the Joy of Missing Out). (Location 1324)
  • By visualising the situation in advance and thinking about how you will feel, you begin to train your brain before you end up in the situation. So, encourage yourself to imagine the embarrassment of being the drunkest person at the wedding or the fear of stumbling shakily into work on Monday morning. It’s a powerful thing. (Location 1328)
  • The great thing about visualisation is that it works both ways. So as well as playing the tape forward around the things you don’t want to do (and the things you don’t want to happen), you can also visualise all the positive outcomes from making better decisions. (Location 1331)
  • While visualising, you’re making some powerful neural connections. You’re helping your brain begin to link pleasure with NOT drinking. You’re starting to repair the years of faulty thinking. (Location 1336)
  • Stop Letting People Live “Rent Free In Your Head” (Location 1348)
  • You HAVE to stop worrying about what people think. It drains your energy and leaves you anxious – two things that can push you back towards the negative feedback loop of drinking. (Location 1349)
  • “I like the person I am when I’m sober” (Location 1353)
  • It’s extremely common for people to place their happiness in the hands of what they think other people think about them. It’s a ridiculous concept. (Location 1355)
  • We vastly overestimate how much time anybody spends thinking about us! (Location 1357)
  • Here are two transformative things to realise: People have their own sh*t to deal with and are fighting their own battles in life. They simply don’t have that much time to think about you. Happiness is an inside job. You cannot give other people the power to determine whether you’re happy or not. (Location 1358)
  • Progress Not Perfection (Location 1362)
  • Evaluate, re-apply yourself, and move on. Give yourself some compassion. (Location 1370)
  • The important thing not to do is use your perceived “failure” as an excuse to immediately revert back to your old ways and revel in self-pity. (Location 1372)
  • Avoiding Procrastination (Location 1380)
  • Just start— one day at a time. (Location 1383)
  • Alcohol-Free Accountability (Location 1387)
  • Join a sober group, exercise group, see a therapist, a coach or a psychologist. (Location 1396)
  • Chapter 7 Strong Body = Strong Mind. The Importance Of Movement And Nutrition In Sobriety (Location 1408)
  • The Damage Alcohol Does To Your Health (Location 1422)
  • In sober communities, people often justify overeating as being “not as bad as drinking alcohol”. This misses the point. Replacing one addiction with another shouldn’t be the aim. Remember what we said earlier in the book about that feeling of being “irritable, restless and discontent?” (Location 1448)
  • The Life-Changing Benefits Of Exercise For Sobriety (Location 1452)
  • Nutrition And The Power Of Your Gut (Location 1508)
  • Where To Start With Nutrition And Your Gut Biome (Location 1555)
  • The Problem With Sugar And Relapse (Location 1577)
  • Sugar and alcohol addiction are inherently linked. (Location 1578)
  • Over time, the body becomes adrenaline fatigued. It becomes less able to produce adrenaline and more resistant to insulin. As a result, blood pressure goes up and down like a yo-yo, the metabolism slows down, and you are caught in an endless cycle of cravings. (Location 1592)
  • A hypoglycaemic alcoholic doesn’t only need alcohol to make their brain chemistry feel “normal”. They’re also having an endless battle with their blood sugar levels. It makes cravings extreme and all-consuming. (Location 1594)
  • Of course, you can enjoy a cake, a soft drink, or an ice cream. But it will serve you well to learn to fight off cravings for sugar. (Location 1597)
  • How To Fight Off Sugar Cravings (Location 1599)
  • Eat more protein – it will help you to feel full. (Location 1603)
  • Consistently eat a breakfast that’s high in fibre but low in sugar (Location 1604)
  • Aim for eight hours of sleep every night. Adjust your routine to make it work. (Location 1607)
  • chew sugar-free gum, drink herbal tea, or just use a toothpick! (Location 1613)
  • Get comfortable with feeling uncomfortable. Sit with the uncomfortable craving for sugar, keep resisting, and notice how you feel. The craving will pass! (Location 1616)
  • Chapter 8 Hungover Energy vs Sober Energy: Protect Your Energy At All Costs (Location 1644)
  • What Is Vibrational Energy? (Location 1649)
  • Why Vibrational Energy Is Important And How To Manage It (Location 1671)
  • If you want to fuel your positive feedback loops, it’s essential to spend your time with high-vibing people – in high-vibing places, doing high-vibing things. Most of the ideas we’ve explored in this book contribute to that too - positive thoughts, emotions, and a healthy body all help contribute to being positively charged. (Location 1686)
  • Hang around positive people on a similar path of self-discovery and personal growth. As motivational speaker Jim Rohn said, “we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with.”59 (Location 1689)
  • Spend time in positive places: the gym, the theatre, the cinema, the bowling alley, the library, and the homes of family and friends who make you feel good about yourself. Don’t spend all your time in places that continually make you question your sobriety, such as bars and clubs! (Location 1692)
  • Spend as much time as possible in nature. Scientific evidence is building up around the power of grounding and reconnecting with the earth. Studies show positive improvements in fatigue, chronic pain, anxiety, and even blood pressure.60 The perfect excuse to play more golf, hit the beach or hug that tree you’ve been eyeing up! (Location 1700)
  • Work on being truly present and “in the moment” in everything you do. It’s a great way to channel energy positively. You’re sure to have had plenty of conversations with people who nod their head when you know they’re not really listening. Don’t be one of those people. (Location 1705)
  • Avoid “energy thieves”. There are almost certainly people out there who leave you tired and drained after every interaction. That drained feeling is your self-awareness at work – it’s telling you that those people aren’t doing you much good. So spend as little time as possible with people who make you feel like that. (Location 1707)
  • Become passionate about things: Salsa dancing, kung fu, collecting records, climbing mountains – anything that makes your soul sing and gives you positive energy. (Location 1710)
  • Chapter 9 Conclusion: Bringing It All Together (Location 1718)
  • 3 Sober Steps to help you to stop drinking and stay sober: Working on your self-awareness in every possible way will help you to understand why you drink. This is essential if you wish to live a sober life for the long-term, rather than getting stuck in a cycle of quitting and relapsing. Taking positive action – with dedication and consistency – will put you in the category of those who’ve quit drinking rather than those who talk about it (and do nothing about it). Building intuition will happen over time as a direct result of becoming more self-aware, taking the right actions to move you towards your goals, and becoming used to experiencing the many pleasures that come from a healthy and sober life. (Location 1724)
  • The 3 Sober Steps won’t always happen in sequence. Sometimes you might get an intuitive feeling that something isn’t right, which will allow you to start the self-awareness journey as the second step. (Location 1732)
  • only wish I’d discovered the reality of sobriety sooner – living an authentic, fulfilled life full of discovery, variety, and the irreplaceable feeling that the person you see in the mirror might be someone you like and respect. (Location 1738)