'Judging yourself for judging others who drink keeps you stuck and in pain, and it solves nothing.' -hipsobriety
do this—every single one of us. It’s part of the process. People judge, and people especially judge those who do things they once did. It’s how we separate ourselves from who we once were. But I’m getting ahead of myself.I had just returned home from a two-month trip to Italy and was 15 months sober. I’d quit my big corporate job and was couch surfing and wrapping up my Kundalini yoga teacher training.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but what I was doing was denying what I actually felt, and therefore, I was denying my humanity. The depression broke only when I talked to my friend about it. When she flipped it around and asked me if—and I told her “hell no”—she explained that it probably wasn’t about him at all; he was just a mirror of the parts in me I couldn’t stand. Or, in other words, he was my shadow, embodied.
If you didn't think that this new sober version of you was somehow more worthy and superior than the version of you that drank to excess, you wouldn't see those who are still engaged in your old ways as inferior or wrong. And you for sure wouldn’t want to change them or think you knew better than they do.
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