The Sober Life, If You Don't Drink Alcohol, You Won't Get Drunk

Alcohol

Kurt Evans
The craziness of the insanity caused by alcoholism is that the practicing alcoholic will never think that if you don't drink alcohol, you won't get drunk. That thought never occurs in the alcoholic that is stuck in the insanity of their addiction and is still drinking alcohol. The alcoholic never sees the alcohol, as the cause of the problem.

Don't Drink Alcohol

Even though the idea that if you don't drink alcohol, you won't get drunk; would solve a lot of problems for the alcoholic, the alcoholic continues to drink alcohol because they haven't found any other solutions. The alcohol provides a frame of mind where they don't have to deal with their problems; providing a numbness where they don't have to deal with the pain and misery that their actions have caused.

Acceptance

For the alcoholic, there are no easy answers. To truly get to the root of the problem, you have to be willing to listen, learn, and own up to mistakes that you have made. This involves having the acceptance of yourself, as you are, an alcoholic.

Road To Recovery

Some of the things that the alcoholic will have to deal with on their road to recovery are the feelings of guilt for having ended up where they did. After being sober for a few days, light bulbs start to go on in your head and you start to have epiphanies, all over the place.

A Life Without Alcohol

When it comes to recovery from alcoholism, you have to be willing to let go of the resentments that you hang on to. The reasons, why you drank alcohol in the first place, need to be set aside and you have to open yourself up to a new way of life, a life without alcohol.

Sober Life

Living life without alcohol is something that you have to learn how to do and it will take time to learn how to live a sober life.

A New Way Of Life, A Sober Life

For a lot of us alcoholics, learning how to live a new way of life is not easy. Although, we may be living a sober life, we still have to deal with all of the things that would trigger us to drink alcohol in the first place.

Alcoholics Anonymous

With the help from our higher power and by following the 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, we learn to live life without alcohol, one day at a time.

The idea of, if you don't drink alcohol you won't get drunk grabs hold of us after a while and we discover a new found freedom.

Life Without Alcohol

Life without alcohol is truly a new lease on life.

Alcoholics Anonymous Works

Alcoholics Anonymous works because it's just like hanging around someone and picking up on their habits. If you hang around Alcoholics Anonymous long enough, you will get sober. You can't hang around sober people and wind up anywhere else, it just doesn't happen.

Reasons Why Alcoholics Anonymous Works

Many people will sit in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and say that they don't know how AA works, but it does. Alcoholics Anonymous works because people have a common goal, to stay sober. Everybody in AA knows what the affects of alcohol are by first hand experience. We've all experienced that all mighty powerful drink of alcohol that has us feeling like we could conquer the world but, it always leaves us looking like a fool. The after math of a drunken bender is never a good one, as we all know.

Living A Sober Life

If you don't drink alcohol, you won't get drunk and you get to discover all the other things that life has to offer. Not having to go through life drunk is a relief for all of us. I'm grateful every day that I'm living a sober life.

Published by Kurt Evans

I'm a writer. I have a sense of humor; as well as some sarcasm. I live life in my imagination as much as humanly possible. My goal is to motivate and inspire the masses onto greatness through sharing my k...  View profile

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  • Madison OSullivan7/23/2010

    Great article! " We all have another drunk left in us but we don't know if we have Another recovery in us."

  • Renee Bagley7/12/2010

    Wonderful article!

  • James Fenelius7/8/2010

    Great insights - one is too many and thousand is not enough.

  • Lucky M Diaz7/7/2010

    Great, very insightful article!

  • Randy McBride6/30/2010

    I enjoyed reading this Kurt. I am working towards certification in this field. I have never been an alcohol or drug addict, my addictions were other things. But hearing from those who are living a life of recovery helps give me more insight.

  • Sue Gibson6/13/2010

    great article. very informative. I have known a number of alcoholics, and it's a sad thing.

  • Michele Starkey6/13/2010

    Kurt, I've been working with many men lately in recovery. Their standard statement is "I'm higher on life than I've ever been - and I'm sober now!" Cheers :)

  • Debra Gavazzi6/12/2010

    Well written. Alcoholism is a horrible addiction.

  • Mike Powers6/12/2010

    Alcohol free... the way to be!

  • Kristen Wilkerson6/12/2010

    They'll just get drunk on life - the source of true happiness. :)

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