Trauma Breeds Sobriety, Not Addiction | The Reframe & Truth
I understand that you want to continue your journey toward sobriety without reliving the traumatic experience that could cause you to feel the urge to drink.
The fascinating aspect of sobriety is that it encourages you to have your traumatic experiences triggered and to grow through them; if this happens, it means that you are healing from your wounds.
The traumatic experience that you are speaking of will remain a part of you for the rest of your life; the goal of sobriety is to put yourself in a healthy enough position to be able to process it without resorting to alcohol to manage the feelings that are associated with it.
Cry, cry a lot, and cry frequently if it’s required of you.
It is not necessary for you to overcome your traumatic experiences or make amends for your past in order to keep your sobriety and transition into a happy, healthy life that you enjoy living.
It is a common misunderstanding to believe that traumatic experiences need to be resolved before one can become sober, or that one must continue to live in constant terror of one’s own thoughts in order to maintain sobriety.
It’s not about how much you drink; it’s about how you behave in the time in between drinks.
Therefore, if you do nothing to move forward, while sober, then you are the exact same person dealing with the exact same traumatic experience in the exact same way; the only difference is that you aren’t drinking alcohol.
This is exactly why I devised the Beyond Sober program, and until week four, we don’t even discuss traumatic experiences or things that happened in the past.
At that point, you will have already seen and felt an incredible amount of results and will be able to look at both yourself and the traumatic experience you’ve had through an entirely new perspective.
Don't let the illusion of the past. Distract you from the reality of the now.
Depression is living in the past, and anxiety is living in the future.
Give yourself permission to feel, and threw that feeling you will discover the truth behind why it was meant for you in the first place.
And that is how long-term sobriety is generated.
Struggle forward my friend.
-Kohdi
