What are the biggest benefits or gifts of sobriety?

The greatest benefit, to me, is the ability to handle adversity and joy with the same heart. To know that despair and bliss are feelings and not states of being, and that my feelings won’t make me or break me. The greatest gifts have been my spiritual life and having true relationships

The greatest gift of sobriety is recovering the person I was meant to be and getting to spend time with him.

As Leslie Jamison notes, at the heart of recovery is meeting, communion. “The meeting itself,” she recalls, “was just a bunch of strangers gathered around a huge wooden table, past a kitchen tracked with footprints, old linoleum curling upward at the edges of the room. People smiled like they were glad to see me, almost like they’d been expecting

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