Sobriety

I'll start off.

Hello everyone, I'm Kvasir and I'm an alcoholic. I had a real tough couple of years. My fiance died and I hit the bottle hard to numb the grief and the pain of losing her. I drank more in these past two plus years than I ever have before.

It was an everyday, all day type of madness that culminated in the second worst day of my life after her passing from a terrifying first encounter with delirium tremens hallucinations.

From that moment on the desire to drink was forever taken (blessedly!) from me. I have just two weeks so far, but these two weeks are the greatest I've felt in years and each day keeps getting better as I go.

I hope everyone who comes here finds a sanctuary that they can use to explore new tools and strategies to deliver them into the life truly want and need. Thank you all for joining this little digital nook. I hope you enjoy your time here ;)

howdy!

just to give the short-and-sweet version: drank pretty heavy and pretty steady for 10ish years til one day i woke up after a bender and felt completely separated from my physical self.

after that, i wanted to take a break until the next weekend. after one weekend, i realized i should really probably stop for a month. now, here i am 15 months later sober.

for anyone reading this who is either about to start their sober journey or just getting started, some tips from my experience:

• get plenty of drinks that you enjoy stocked up. for me, flavored sparkling water (like liquid death) and/or diet soda
• get ready for your cravings for sweets/dessert to through the roof. every sober person i've talked to agrees on this: you stop drinking and you fill the void with ice cream or candy
• it's ok to fail. don't give up because of a slip up - just get back on the horse and keep going