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    How to Find Yourself Sober

    What do I mean, How to find yourself sober? Manipulation was easy on me whilst I was drinking. It was almost too much to fight anything. Not that I enjoy confrontation, that was probably part of my downfall. I didn’t have the mentality or tools to deal with or question anything. Take my husband for example, not that I am husband bashing but this springs to mind as most of the manipulation I realise (now that I find myself sober) was coming from him. He’s a very clever guy, he knows how to word things to make them seem my fault or to make me sound like I am being…

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    The Euphoria of Sobriety

    I think I have found the Euphoria of Sobriety How do you find Euphoria in sobriety? For me, it was by accident. I had an evening out with my friend last night, she very kindly suggested that we went for a meal. She was obviously being extremely considerate of my recent sobriety stint. Which I am proud to say is currently at 146 days. We had arranged for her to meet me when I finished work at 5:30pm. All this though was leading me to overthink most of the day.Questions of the following nature filled my head :  This continued way into the afternoon, right until I voiced my concerns…