I’m grateful for a sunny morning. I’m grateful for seeing how sobriety ultimately changes everything. I’m grateful for a late night work complaint session with my daughter. I’m grateful for new possibilities and new directions. I’m grateful to be placed exactly where I am. I’m grateful to be sober today.
Good morning, Happy Thursday, Happy Ides of September. I guess no one really says that, do they? The first thing you should do is read Jane’s piece from yesterday:
Sobriety, like life, does not come with a guarantee that it will be all puppies and cake.1 What Jane was writing about yesterday is really powerful. When Jane writes that even though she is going through some pretty rough stuff, the thing that hasn’t happened is the re-awakening of the desire to drink—that’s pretty powerful. It’s what ultimately happened to me, too. I finally got to the point where every time the idea of having a drink popped into my head, a voice also popped up and would say, “and that will make this better, how?”
That change happens, and it happens because of the changes we make in our lives, not from just stopping or trying to moderate our drinking. It happens when we stop trying to lead the life that our ego wants us to and live a life of meaning and purposes instead. Jane is the real deal, the work she is doing is transformative and not easy and you should read what she wrote yesterday
Jamee Sailor Rowe is also the real deal and her piece on emotional sobriety is really great:
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From experience, puppies and cake is a disastrous combination.
Still thinking about the "pumpkin isn't cutting it" line from Jane's piece, haha. Too good. It encapsulates the vibe so well.