Who agrees with me? 🙋🏼♀️
I don't care whether you occasionally drink, only drink on the weekends, have a glass of wine every night of the week - you ditch alcohol, and your life will improve.
Maybe some of you are saying, "but I have ditched alcohol, and I'm not sleeping, my energy is sh*t, I'm irritable as f*ck, and I've got all these problems to solve WITHOUT alcohol. How is this improvement?"
My love, your life WILL improve without alcohol, no question about that, but you have to give it a chance first. Putting down the bottle isn't a cure-all. That's a step, and be proud of that, but the biggest step lies in uncovering all the reasons why you were drinking in the first place.
Yes, there are short-term benefits to quitting alcohol, but most of what we're looking for are the long-term rewards.
The first two years of my sobriety were UNCOMFORTABLE AF. I was dealing with all the issues I created while drinking, trying to get my life back on track, and unraveling trauma.
In the meantime, I was driving back and forth to RI and CT, so my son could go to school in CT during the week, and we'd have a break from my mom at my house in RI on the weekends. Then I lived with my mom for a FULL year which was absolute hell when you haven't lived with anyone since you were 22, amongst all the issues that I already had with her from childhood. It wasn't easy, but I knew that alcohol wouldn't make it any easier.
I kept my eyes on the prize, and the gifts I'm receiving now from my sobriety almost five years later bring tears to my eyes. And maybe most of you reading this aren't at the horrific rock bottom I was at. But no matter how much you drink, alcohol impedes your progress in EVERY area of your life - relationships, motherhood, work, and most importantly, the quality of YOUR life.
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