I’ve arrived at a dozen beer free (and therefore alcohol free) days in a row – one step forward, maybe two! A Dozen was my goal for this sobriety stretch and I’m considering having a few beers tonight. Not totally sure about it and I’ll have to feel it out. I’m on the fence…
What I soon found was that having to actually write things down brought with it a whole new level of accountability. If I had previously written that I wanted achieve a “Twice Lucky”, and I had thoughts of buying some beer along the way, I suddenly had second thoughts. I didn’t want to face my journal having written one thing and gone and done another. It exposed my habit of lying to myself about my use disorder in technicolor!
The biggest benefits of my consistent, long term meditation practice include ending my long time marijuana addiction, getting control of my gray area drinking, and stealing back my stolen focus.
The knowledge that the scale will give me unbiased feedback about my weight and my journal an avenue of reflection about why I’m achieving my weight (and other) goals or not, is a humbling prospect.
sobriety noun 1. High seriousness of manner or bearing: graveness, gravity, sedateness, solemnity, solemnness, staidness. 2. The practice of refraining from use of alcoholic liquors: abstinence, dryness, soberness, teetotalism, temperance. My name is Dominic Yarborough. Thank you for joining […]