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When sobriety improves your health but changes your identity

I stopped drinking six months ago and my skin looks better and I sleep better but I miss the person I was when I was drinking.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical improvement can come at the cost of psychological familiarity with who we think we are.

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“Where Are You with Alcohol and the body?”

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