Is Sobriety Hard ?

The term sobriety is applied when there is a previous event of addiction. Addiction can then be likened to a response to suffering. This means looking at what the person is getting that they otherwise don't have and what addicts get is relief from pain, a sense of peace, control, and calmness which is very temporal. The question then is why these are missing from their lives. Sobriety might then mean finding true happiness in the moments that matter, without relying on substances. It's a personal race, fight, win. It is doing it for yourselves. It's taking stable, safer, and sober steps each day. The past hurts, your trauma is real, but more real is the power to overcome.

The Mirage of the Past - Letting go

We are never going to have a better past but in trauma recovery, we can put together the pieces of our past in a way that doesn’t blame us for things that happened to us; Things that we couldn’t possibly control even if we wanted to; the things we have been carrying with shame for years.

THE DOTS

'If painful memories make you cry, write them down and write them carefully'. If we listen carefully, woven throughout our narratives, is a belief system inside us as children. Let's start at the beginning and let your memories leak out in liquid pen strokes. Don't fear how the words come out get entangled in any sort of timeline, or feel like you have to ensure every detail is precise and correct. It's not about getting it all right but getting it all out. Unresolved issues and undealt-with wounds make people say and do things that can hurt. Those things that happen in our lives don't just tell a story. They inform us of the story we tell ourselves.

Don't Hang in there — Ask for Help!

As your Sorrow grows, so does your burden, but I guarantee you you'll never get rid of it on your own. The burden you carry is sickly and heavy. Do you see help over there? Don't wipe away your tears, look through them. Tears have a way of bringing clarity. This post encourages you to ask for help, enlighten, or teach you to look past your sorrows.