Seven years ago, Kirsten Johnson was working as a Data Analyst for a start-up in San Francisco. Suffering from a range of anxiety disorders, she found herself increasingly self-medicating with alcohol. “I kept drinking more, and there was more anxiety....
If you were to ask me which part of sobriety I love the most, I’d tell you it’s the absolute, delicious, blissful freedom. Freedom from counting drinks. Freedom from giving myself ‘those lectures’ about not making an idiot of myself this...
A few months into sobriety, you realise – it’s all about a new kind of ‘feeling good’. The kind that lasts a hell of a lot longer than the first hour of drinking. The kind that evokes true joy, and develops into a deep self-love...
