Yesterday was my "cake day" of being alcoholfree. And guess what? I hit one year of sobriety and ...I didn't think about it. Very happy nevertheless!

For all of you reading this, thinking: 'how could I possibly make it to a year?'

Can you imagine that I thought exactly the same?

... of course I thought about hitting the one year mark often. Sometimes it felt like all I could think about. In my mind, by that time it would be a serious attempt, maybe even a succeeded one.

I projected success on a future state, although day to day me was already making progress.

Already at one month, two months, three months, or four months and a week, I was succeeding day after day after day.

Every IWNDWYT was an important step.

I quit drinking on a Sunday morning, when I woke up with another terribble hangover, feeling not only unsatisfied with again a day lost, but more generally I thought: this is not the way I want to treat my body/mind and spend my time.

It was not just an impulse. I had been trying to quit drinking on and off already, so I kind of really wanted it, but also experienced some pushbacks. And here we are. 1 year sober.

The book The Naked Mind helped me tremendously, just as did reading and writing on this subreddit. I think the two of them make for great support. Love for you.