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Why sobriety milestones don't always bring inner peace

I have been sober for two years and everyone congratulates me but I still feel like I am white-knuckling through every social event and I wonder if this is just who I am now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Recovery's external markers of success can mask the ongoing internal work of rebuilding identity and relationship to pleasure.

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