{"id":6,"date":"2020-09-21T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2020-09-21T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:55:47","slug":"what-happens-when-you-stop-drinking-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/what-happens-when-you-stop-drinking-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when you stop drinking alcohol?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t remember exactly when I realized my drinking had stopped become an occasional social event and when it became the main event. I know that like many of you, the slide was gradual. What was once a way to have fun had become my primary coping mechanism, a substitute for feeling sadness and joy.  Though my kindle shows that I have been looking at &#8220;sober lit&#8221; for close to 10 years, it wasn&#8217;t until 4 years ago, just before my 40th birthday, that I consciously tried to stop, not just moderate my drinking.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what happens when you stop drinking alcohol? You get sober.  Sober has a lot of baggage, both the word and the condition.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hate the word sober. It\u2019s too close to somber, serious, stone cold. I prefer to think of myself as awakening, renewing, rediscovering. It\u2019s about what you are gaining, not about what you are stopping. Notice I didn&#8217;t say losing, because avoiding feeling like shit is not losing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember exactly when I realized my drinking had stopped become an occasional social event and when it became the main event. I know that like many of you, the slide was gradual. What was once a way to have fun had become my primary coping mechanism, a substitute for feeling sadness and joy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pcor7Q-6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sobernotsomber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}