Unhinged Things I Did in Early Sobriety

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I hope I never have to go back to Day 1 in my recovery. One time was hard enough, thank you! But if I could go back and do early sobriety differently, I would.

There’s an instinct in early recovery to prove you can handle it alone and without asking for help. I gave in to that instinct constantly, and looking back, I see the root of the problem. I treated recovery like something to survive instead of something to build support around.

Here’s what that looked like and what I’d tell my earlier self to do instead.