everything i've ever written about not drinking
3 years sober today!
Hello friends!
Today it has been 3 years without drinking. It feels like both a long and short amount of time. Long because I honestly can’t remember what it was like for my social life to center around drinking and short because I do remember thinking that it felt like sobriety had become the entirety of my identity and now that’s not even close to true.
Not drinking has given me so many things—more creativity, love, time, health, and a professional writing career. My first public writing was about sobriety, but shortly after those first articles, I became stressed that I had been pigeonholed into being a “sober” writer. I didn’t want to make not drinking my entire beat and I was anxious to expand my niche as soon as possible.
It happened almost effortlessly. As a function of not drinking, it turned out that not drinking really was the least interesting thing I was doing. My writing beat naturally expanded. In these three years, I’ve written about relationships, interior design, travel, falling in love, moving to Scotland, and getting married, among other topics. All of these interesting experiences that became fodder for writing occurred because I was not drinking. Even if I didn’t say it directly in the piece, it is this change that made all of this possible.
Here are 5 pieces I’ve written about not drinking over the years:
Business Insider: I went sober in my mid-20s and became more confident at work and less anxious
Let me know if this at all resonates with you and wishing you a glorious week!!
All my love,
Sarah
So happy for you. 🤗🤗😘