Growing through Recovery
With my sober birthday being July 5, 2019 - that means, on January 5, 2022 I'll be celebrating 2.5 years. While that may not seem like much, it's been a very challenging, but rewarding time for me. And 2.5 I am so proud of. See, I've changed over this 2.5 years; I've shifted and grown, and yet I have watched so much stay stagnant. When I decided in July of 2019 to not drink, it was just a challenge for me... Dry July was what it was called, yet I waited until after the 4th, because that's how addicted I was. I'm extremely goal oriented and challenge driven, so taking 30 days off to support a friend, would be fun for me. I had tried numerous times to quit, and sometimes could make it 15 days or so, but ultimately always found myself with a drink because this or that "miffed" me. But, Dry July felt different. Then Dry July turned into, let's go 6 weeks, and then my first holidays arrived without alcohol, and by early 2020, I was used to my new...