Quitting Alcohol Was a Natural Extension of Yoga
My active drinking career highlighted a lot of things I didn’t know how to do:
- Be honest with myself.
- Understand my own motivations and needs.
- See my proper place in the world.
- Appreciate my own quirks.
- Believe that I’m enough for the world, as-is.
substack.com • Do the Thing You Don't Know How to Do - By T.B.D.
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Drinking did for me what I couldn’t do for myself: it hid my insides from the outside world. It concealed the parts of me that I deemed unacceptable and unlovable.
Kezia Calvert • Untangling the Web of Alcohol Abuse & ADHD
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My drinking grew from fearing what the Universe had in store for me; Sobriety has been accepting what the Universe has in store for me.
substack.com • Tiny, Rogue Strawberries - By T.B.D.
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Addiction was the inverse of honest work. It was everything, right now. I drank away nervousness, and I drank away boredom, and I needed to build a new tolerance. Yes to discomfort, yes to frustration, yes to failure, because it meant I was getting stronger. I refused to be the person who only played games she could win.
Sarah Hepola • Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Drinking had saved me. When I was a child trapped in loneliness, it gave me escape. When I was a teenager crippled by self-consciousness, it gave me power. When I was a young woman unsure of her worth, it gave me courage. When I was lost, it gave me the path: that way, toward the next drink and everywhere it leads you. When I triumphed, it celebrat
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Drink and drugs are sins against the soul because they paralyze the will, without which soul-realization and salvation are impossible.
Paramahansa Yogananda • Man’s Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 1
a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined and the soul gradually liberated.
Paramahansa Yogananda • Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship)
I drank to avoid: that I have to make myself essential so people won't kick me out or abandon me, that my only value is in how useful or accommodating I can be to other people.
The Small Bow Family Orchestra • Workaholism 101
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