How I Quit Drinking

Going from a daily drinking habit to years of sobriety.

Photo by Colton Duke on Unsplash

It’s been nearly eight years since my last drink. There was a time when I struggled to make it even eight days.

In last week’s newsletter, I shared the story of how I became a daily heavy drinker. In today’s newsletter, I’m going to share how I escaped from that life.

I’ve written about this in previous newsletters, but as I said last week, with the new year coming up, I thought it would be the perfect time to share the broad strokes of how I turned my life around.

Today’s newsletter is more autobiographically focused—I’m not going to get into too much detail about the specific techniques. However, make sure to check out the Exploring Sobriety Archive if you want to read more on that. There are over one hundred posts there about all kinds of sobriety-related topics.