5 Things Nobody Dares Tell You About Getting Sober

#4. Most of your dreams are delusional.

There’s no way I would have managed to quit drinking if I’d known what it entailed in the short term. But if I'd known how it would look long term, I would have been inspired to keep going. Staying sober day after day requires faith, that in spite of the struggle, it's going to be worth it.

We don’t all have the same burdens, psychological profiles and traumatic histories, but I can't help but believe that dealing with alcohol addiction (and the trauma underneath) is only going to lighten your load.

The only way you’ll truly know if your life would be better sober is if you try it. But you have to give it at least a couple of years - okay, maybe four - to have any idea how it will be. Trust me, it takes a long time to get clarity. To return to a life without extremes.

In the spirit of transparency here are some of the parts people don’t dare tell you, about what it’s really like to get sober, in case they put you off.