A Joyful Free
March 2025 | Sober and Out | Emotional Sobriety

A Joyful Free Life

For this longtimer, sanity is the ability to adjust to reality. That’s why he stays close and does the deal

Sobriety is the most important thing in my life, but I see it as a means rather than an end.  Stopping drinking is the prerequisite for recovery, and I know that everything I have would unravel if I started drinking again. But stopping drinking did nothing to help me recover from alcoholism itself.  

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