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Honey, you have to love yourself sober.
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New post! And, also my most favourit thing I've written. From my B-Sides Collection, old pieces I've tucked away in my journals, but never shared. Until now.
Our emotional scars are the most valuable roadmap to sobriety.
They show us where the all the hurts got in.
They point to where we need look, to work, to listen, and to what we need to let be.
They give us our personal homework, which is ours and only… https://t.co/FXlOZObAuC
It was in an anxious, brave moment of decisive self love that I rallied the courage to free myself from the familiar, once and for all allowing all the pain and anguish to pour through me, no longer dulled and drunk – so that I could courageously love an… https://t.co/AYGt5AOtKS
In the same way that Rumpelstilzchen spun straw into gold, recovery is an almost mystical process of taking all of our discarded and broken parts and transforming them into what becomes our most treasured qualities.
We turn our addiction, shame, and all… https://t.co/a7eTbwA5cf
Sorry for the silence these last few days...busy busy busy 📸 weddings! Back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow! 😉
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Over time, alcohol convinces you that you're worthless.
As simple as that. No sugar coating, nothing fluffy, just plain old … https://t.co/EpgatnarRW
By nature, we are very impatient creatures. We drank because we wanted to “feel better” and numb ourselves NOW. We drink because we wanted to “relax” and escape reality NOW.
And in sobriety – the benefits we celebrate, and that motivate us, are equally … https://t.co/8nQf9HWMe0
Alcohol worked like a liquid microscope for me, amplifying all my troubles and fixating on the small and insignificant things until they appeared to be of mountainous proportions. It kept me in a loop of looking too closely at all the wrong things, from … https://t.co/uUqiRi4NrM
I’ll tell you right now: not drinking is the easy part.
And I’ll remind you again: it isn’t alcohol you need to recover from.
It’s from your addiction to escaping reality.
For once in God-only-knows-how-long, you’re going to be able to feel all the fe… https://t.co/1nBZyyXJ7q