Author: Haler Smith
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I thought the problem was that I just needed to control it better. If I could drink less, space it out, or change how I…
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I thought alcohol was the problem for a long time. That was the thing I pointed to every time something went wrong. If I could…
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I thought if I could just understand what was wrong with me, I could fix it. I spent a lot of time in my own…
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For a long time, I thought the solution to my problems was changing my behavior. If I could just stop doing the things that caused…
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Before I ever got sober, I used to wonder why the smallest things set me off. Big problems didn’t always push me toward a drink.
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When I first got sober, I honestly believed I could think my way into staying sober. I figured if I just tried hard enough, stayed…
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One of the first suggestions I heard in AA was to “take it one day at a time.” It sounded simple, but it wasn’t something…
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For most of my life, I carried around a quiet belief that nobody thought like I did. I assumed no one else lay awake replaying…
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I spent years thinking alcohol was my great enemy. If you had asked me back then what the problem was, I would’ve told you—without hesitation—that…
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There was a stretch of time when the quiet moments were the loudest. When I finally stopped drinking, the noise in my head shifted from…