To 50 & Beyond | Midlife | Wellness | Recovery

Sobriety is a scary word! On episode 158, I talk about my own journey and the process it took for me to come to terms with my sobriety.   If someone told me when I was young that alcohol would mess up my life, I wouldn’t have believed them.  For a huge part of my life I drank excessively and at one point I felt like life and wine needed to go together. After years of wondering whether or not I had a problem, I had to listen to my own thoughts and feelings instead of anyone else’s, and I made the difficult choice to quit drinking.   You are never alone if you feel like sobriety is something you never planned for your life.  Topics Discussed The word "sobriety" can be scary How I am always working on old behaviors I notice  Ways I work on acceptance within myself How I once believed in the stigma surrounding sobriety and alcoholism Feeling like an outcast after quitting drinking  How I had to pay attention to my thoughts and feelings in order to see my situation  Objections people have to quitting drin