Secrets of Sobriety

I like to listen to the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. It’s a show that mostly offers ways to know yourselves better in order to successfully make positive and healthy habit changes. I have taken on many of the tips she suggests and feel I have a better grasp on what works for me.

One quote she frequently uses is, “It’s a secret of adulthood: [wise insight].” I think it serves well to appropriate this to not drinking.

It’s a secret of sobriety:

• ​how empowering it feels
• waking up without anxiety and regret about last night
• it’s a foundation for more and more healthy decisions
• your digestive track will feel so much better
• your emotion state stablizes
• you feel mentally sharp
• its changes how you see the whole world
• its fuck hard to do even with all the stacked positives
• you sleep better and feel more rested
• you have more patience and capacity
• you see how alcohol affects others
• you will so proud just controlling your own drinking
• the freedom to.....the freedom from....
• the amount of extra time you have