🎂 2 years alcohol free

I gave up one thing. I got everything.

Hi dear friends, happy Monday!

Today is a day that is very special to me. Two years without alcohol! I think of all that has taken its place: delicious food, life-altering love, glorious friendships, unimaginable adventure. What a miracle!

Last year, I wrote about what started when I stopped in an essay that I read again this morning, and remarked to myself, “damn, that’s pretty good.”

what started when i stopped

This part was my favorite:

The next quits came right before and soon after: a job, a city, a way of being available to everyone at all times. These brought the end of several friendships, a hiatus from dating and sex, and the crushing death of an identity I had spent years constructing. 

I was no longer the person I had carefully curated, calculated, and coerced myself into becoming. In this destruction, I met myself. Who I actually am.  

Thank you to every single person who reads this newsletter, who has, in their own mystical and magical way, been part of the best two years of my life.

In closing, I share with you the phrase that’s turning over in my head today.

I gave up one thing. I got everything.

Here’s to everything!

Yours in joy,

Sarah