When you trade one addiction for another

Kelly Tompkins
Nov 5 · 3 min read

My addiction to alcohol was traded for an addiction to energy drinks.

I wanted to believe so badly that alcohol was the only thing I was addicted to. That when I stopped drinking, I would have a surplus of willpower. I had this image in my head of who I would become when I went sober- a well dressed, put together young woman who had the perfect diet and drank something like kombucha. Someone…

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Kelly Tompkins

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Weight lifting, languages, bouldering, and horror movies. Austinite and owner of two black cats. Sober blog at soberlykelly.com and editor of Keeping it spooky.

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