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My Alcohol Story
A Roadmap to an Alcohol-Free Life: Journal Entries from My First Year of Sobriety
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A Roadmap to an Alcohol-Free Life: Journal Entries from My First Year of Sobriety

Days 101 - 104, more clarity on my 'why'

CW for this audio entry: alcohol use disorder, nightmares

In these entries, it was not yet Spring in 2023, but I was stretching and poking my head out of my insular-by-necessity world and starting to carve out a little capacity for asking what the hell was happening to us all and what I could do about it.

I didn’t connect the two trains of thought at the time, but I also write about my dissatisfaction with my work. Some part of me knew I wasn’t utilizing my unique life experience and free will, and that part would grow louder, clanking the dumbbells and rolling pins that were soothing me on a daily basis against the bars of my life.

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Maria Luz’s Substack
My Alcohol Story
Journal entries from my first year of sobriety. I hope this gives others trying to quit or in early sobriety a sense of being seen and maybe a little hope. I believe that taking these experiences out of the shame shed is necessary for our collective healing.