01/02/2026
Happy Dry Jan day 2!!! If you drank yesterday, you that’s ok. You can start today. I didn’t start until the 3rd, and tomorrow will be 5️⃣ years since my last drink 🤩✨🎉
This is what I wrote back on January 2, 2022:
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“For those that are new to my page, I started 2021 in a pretty hopeless place. I was going on month 7 of being unemployed due to covid, was at the heaviest weight of my life, was in a relationship I wanted to end, experienced extreme anxiety and depression, didn’t have a healthy relationship with food, didn’t exercise consistently / at all, and SO badly wanted to have the life I’m currently living today.
Quitting drinking unlocked potential within myself that I never, EVER knew I had. People used to tell me that when you have an anxiety disorder, drinking is like pouring gasoline on a fire, but it wasn’t until about a month ago (December 2021) that I was truly able to grasp just how much my drinking impacted my anxiety.
I always justified this argument with “the drinking takes away my anxiety! Even if it’s temporary, drinking makes it so I don’t have to FEEL… for a few hours at least.”
Well, without any alcohol in my system there is no (*minimal) anxiety that I need to drink away. This didn’t happen overnight - this took months of being sober, working out every day (no matter what!), eating healthy (80% of the time), working through my emotions/feelings, journaling, meditating, and being mindful of my energy and who gets a piece of it.
We CAN recover + we CAN succeed. My days mainly used to be dark with a few good ones sprinkled in. Now I rarely have dark days, and if I do they’re less intense + I’m well equipped to process the feelings I experience in a grounded + rational way.
Counting down the hours until I am ONE YEAR alcohol free! I started with the small goal of 30 days on January 3, 2021 + have’t had a drink since. If you are looking for a sign to do Dry January, this is it! ✨🙏
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So proud of that version of me who shared her soul with the internet. She was growing + changing so much every day… and never would’ve believed what my life would look like 4 years later 🥹
