When she said that I laughed and said that would be the dumbest thing ever. Monday will be 30 days sober, the longest I’ve gone since I started and that’s just the beginning. I’ve even sat at a bar with a friend to eat food and found out he was diagnosed with an uncurable illness, I didn’t drink then either.

I credit Annie Grace’s book This Naked Mind for changing my life and making me realize that alcohol is poison for me. I’ll never look at alcohol the same again. I didn’t need to hit rock bottom to stop, which I always assumed would have to happen. And even though I’m stressed AF with the holidays coming and the what-ifs my baselines are so much better than I remember them ever being.