Six Months Sober Today: What I've Learned So Far

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Today I am six months sober from alcohol. It’s a decision I made after realizing alcohol had become an idol in my life. I wasn’t at rock bottom. I wasn’t an alcoholic. But I was definitely abusing the bottle and I knew my direction was unsustainable. I challenged myself to three months with no alcohol. I’ve been detailing my journey a little bit my on these pages.

I’ve been told that heavy drinkers who get sober can experience significant changes in their brain chemistry at three months sober, six months and again at a year. So far my experience has validated this claim. 

Three months was a sea change. The world got a little bit brighter all of a sudden, and not necessarily in good ways. I’ve likened it to being at the eye doctor and looking through the machine at slides of letters and numbers at different focuses. It’s like the slide changed, and suddenly I could see all the characters.