Just as there is no single way to make brownies, there is no single recipe for getting sober. I wish there were. That would make things a hell of a lot easier for everyone involved. But, unfortunately, it just isn’t so.
Rewiring the brain for less alcohol is a long journey that may not work for many suffering from alcohol addiction. I’m convinced that I hadn’t personally gotten all the way to full blown physical addiction before beginning my unorthodox journey.
There are many fears newly sober people face. I like to call these the BIG F****’s. In this blog post, I’ll cover sobriety’s five big fears from the perspective of a sober newbie.
In many of us, there is a hole and we try to fill that hole with alcohol and drugs. But the irony is that these chemicals don’t fill the hole. They simply lay a temporary blanket of fog over the hole. With the hole now hidden from view, our vices dig it ever deeper and wider. The result is often what becomes a seemingly impossible hole to fill.
What these meditation experiences have impressed upon me is the power of the mind to heal itself through its ability to create powerful visualizations. Through these we are able to make peace with all kinds of things we didn’t even realize we were still dealing with.