@louisethompson: 5 years sober And one of the best non-decisions I’ve ever made 🌝 For some reason, this video feels a bit scary to post, which might sound mad because I share a lot of full-on things on here... but when I really dig into it, I think the main difference for me is that none of those other things I’ve talked about have been my fault. Bad health wasn’t my fault, birth trauma wasn’t my fault, my stoma bag wasn’t my fault, my mental health wasn’t my fault. But drinking kind of was. In a way. I had a choice to drink. Or did I? I feel like I danced a fine dance with alcoholism for many years of my adolescence, and I’m in a better place to acknowledge that now I’m fully out the other side. It wasn’t very helpful when a lot of people I used to drink with told me I didn’t, maybe because I used to entertain them? But deep down I was always waiting for an epiphany to happen. I knew myself that I was desperate to give it up, but I could never abstain for longer than a few months at a time. Without going too much detail about my past right here right now (i’ll let the video do the talking, and maybe I can write a piece on it because I still maintain that i’m better with written word than spoken word - and long form over short form) I can say that I’ve finally reached a spot where I feel genuinely proud of myself for stopping for a decent chunk of time. At the beginning, I didn’t feel particularly proud because I was simply too overwhelmed with life and poor mental health to even consider having a social life that involved alcohol. I was too fearful of everything I put in my body and all the medication I was on and obsessively tracking that I couldn’t think about adding anything else that would potentially alter the neurotransmitters in my brain and cause my life to mess up even more, so I hard-stopped. And I’ve never looked back. It’s one of the few things I’m grateful for the trauma for. I knew I’d be a crap parent if I continued my drinking habits, so it’s quite good that that decision was removed for me. I am now a brilliant parent a much better partner, family member, colleague👇🏼 #sobriety #soberissexy #sobernotboring #sobercurious #sobermom

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