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Why sobriety can feel like trading ease for difficulty

I quit drinking two years ago but I still think about how much easier everything felt when I could just have a few beers and turn my brain off.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Growth often requires giving up familiar forms of escape before new forms of peace emerge.

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