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The Rules We Make to Keep Drinking: Moderation, Fear, and Choosing a Beautiful Life

The Rules We Make to Keep Drinking: Moderation, Fear, and Choosing a Beautiful Life

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In this episode of the Sober Witch Life podcast, Sunshine reflects on the complicated stories we tell ourselves when we are trying to control our drinking instead of questioning our relationship with alcohol altogether. After discovering old Facebook memories from a 40-day attempt to give up alcohol for Lent, she recognizes just how much mental energy once went into negotiating rules, exceptions, limits, and loopholes around drinking.

Through personal stories of moderation attempts, blackouts, anxiety, grief, trauma, and eventually recovery, Sunshine explores the tension between what the body, mind, ego, and spirit may be telling us. She examines why the familiar can feel safer than change, even when the familiar is hurting us, and why sobriety can feel frightening when we focus only on everything we might lose.

Ultimately, this episode reframes recovery not as a life of deprivation, but as the choice to create a beautiful life. Sometimes that beautiful life is extraordinary transformation. Sometimes it is simply safety, authenticity, meaningful relationships, peaceful mornings, coffee, birds, and no longer having to negotiate with the thing that is hurting you.

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