Anne commented below that I read this blog entry. I did and am including the link because I want to be able to access it later as a lot of it really spoke to me. The more I read, the more I realize that all of our struggles are so similar and that most people that struggle with alcohol have the exact same thought process as me. I am not that different or special and if all these other people can find happiness in sobriety, then so can I.
The Importance of Being Uncomfortable in Your Own Skin
She says:
Every time you drank, no matter how little, you became a slightly altered version of yourself. And then you began to prefer that version; you maybe even thought it was the real you. I certainly did. I would have sworn I never felt so myself, never so in love with life, than when I was couple glasses of wine deep. But the truth is every time I drank, and every time you drank, we bypassed the part of us that can actually sharpen, grow, engage, and connect. We took the elusive shortcut to those things because it feels like it’s working, but it never really does. It never gets us all the way there. And in the meantime, the real us gets left behind in the dust.
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