By Barbara S. Cole
Inspiring tales from those that encountered life-changing benefits from doubtless unimportant events.
"Why try?" we occasionally ask ourselves whilst confronted with the uncertainties and tough paintings of restoration. however the solutions are throughout us, within the wealthy and lively lives of these who've made the adventure sooner than us, every one a member of the cheerful chances that watch for. those probabilities come alive in presents of Sobriety, a e-book that offers rapid aspiring to the massive Book's promise: "We are going to grasp a brand new freedom and a brand new happiness." during this booklet, presents of Sobriety, those that have freed themselves of alcohol or drug dependancy proportion the presents that sobriety has given them. Their tales are, in flip, a gift--for those that have made the adventure and in the event you, simply embarking, search gladdening information of the great lifestyles to return
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Imagine waking up feeling psychically "clean" every morning and falling into a blissful, babylike sleep at night, light as a feather because nothing untruthful needs to be carried over to the next day to compound into more lies. Imagine always speaking your mind without the worry of someone getting too close and discovering the secret of your addiction, which protects Itself from view at the cost of your health and well-being. Imagine the freedom of a downy dandelion seed in the wind, moving easily, without any struggle, slipping freely over vast stretches of land.
Second, over time It ceases to give us anything and begins to take our health. Most of us begin using and drinking to control the way that we see things, how we do things, and how we feel. Eventually most of us find that we have lost this ability through drugs and alcohol and are trapped by the substances themselves in a cycle of avoiding the emotional and physical pain and related consequences that It, itself, brings to us. What a convenient, deathly perfect cycle we are caught up in. Trapped.
Two years before I did not have to put on my 'beautiful' facade because I was afraid that somebody would figure out that I was an alcoholic. When I think of it, the only word that comes to mind is fragile. During that first year I was as fragile as spun glass. I was afraid of going back to where I had been when I was drinking. And I had wanted to die back then. Afraid and fragile and bound with a ball and chain to a taskmaster called perfection. False perfection. My sobriety has bought me freedom.
