10 Quick and Easy Ways to Stop Relapsing and Stay Sober
Truthfully, some of these are neither quick nor easy. But they work. And without them, your chances of staying sober decrease.
6 min readFeb 9, 2022
I felt like a raw nerve end when I gave up drinking. I was super sensitive, wildly anxious and super uncomfortable. And I’m still sober 22 years later. None of that stuff killed me. And I made it through.
You can, too.
Here are 10 ways — some quick and easy — some not that will help you get through the discomfort of being newly sober.
Willpower won’t work. Change your environment. It’ll change your life.
When my teenager’s potato chips are out on the counter, I inevitably eat some. When they are inside the cupboard, I usually don’t.
It truly is a matter of out of sight, out of mind.
We make 35,000 decisions every day. 35,000 freaking decisions!