Beyond the Pink Cloud
How to stick with sobriety after the novelty wears off.
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6 min readMay 10, 2024
This essay originally appeared in the Exploring Sobriety newsletter.
When I think back across the entire six and a half years that I’ve been sober, two periods stand out as exceptionally difficult.
The first came at the very beginning: The week that I quit drinking. Those earliest…