Sarah Wood
@sarahwood
@sarahwood
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Sobriety and
“There is the life that most of us live, and then there is the life we have buried deep inside us, the life we know we’re supposed to be living.”
“Spending a night out drinking is akin to dismantling every piece of protection we have—our cognition, our decision making, our reaction time, our memory, our standards, our voice. If we thought about alcohol in this way—as something that undermines our collective momentum and personal agency and vitality and self-worth—what would that m
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Sobriety and
Mental Health and
“The goal here is to create a situation you no longer have to escape, or a life you don’t have to numb. The achievement of sobriety is not the point; it’s a by-product of the work. The work is the point. Addiction is the hook that gets you in the door, and quitting is the catalyst to heal deeper wounds.”