The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.
Before you drank alcohol, you didn’t miss it; you didn’t think about it. You were happy and free.
Annie Grace • This Naked Mind: Transform your life and empower yourself to drink less or even quit alcohol with this practical how to guide rooted in science to boost your wellbeing
Everyone else is having a great time, everyone else knows what to do, everyone else’s life is just better.
I drank for 45 years to try and live like I thought everyone else lived.
I drank for 45 years to try and live like I thought everyone else lived.
T.B.D. • Doctor, My Eyes
You need to stop thinking “I can never ever have another drink”, and start thinking how wonderful it will be when you can stop poisoning yourself.
Carr Allen • Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol
If I was going to be completely sober for the rest of my life, if I couldn’t even have one drink at the end of a long and brittle day, then the life I lived needed to be a life from which I did not seek escape.
Augusten Burroughs • Lust & Wonder: A Memoir
There’s something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia, that disabuses you of the belief in externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth a
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