What Are the Benefits of Being Sober?

Alcoholism causes a host of problems that can affect your health, relationships, career and finances, just to name a few. Kicking the habit and living a life of sobriety offers countless benefits as well as possibilities that you may never thought possible when you were drinking. While this new journey can be challenging, all the good things it brings can help keep you on the right path.

Self-realization

• Alcohol can turn you into a completely different person than you were before you started drinking. Taking alcohol out of the picture gives you an opportunity to just be you, without its insidious influence. Sobriety allows you to reconnect with that deeper part of yourself—the real you. It gives you the clear head to figure out who you are and what you want out of life. Sobriety provides the clarity necessary to figure out your desires and goals.

Increased Opportunities

• Any time you depend on something outside of yourself for stress relief, happiness or to block out problems, it traps you. You cannot imagine your life without this substance, and you build your whole life around making sure you get it. A dependence on alcohol places so many limits on what you believe you can achieve. One benefit of sobriety—a huge benefit—is the freedom it affords you to live whatever life you want to live. Alcohol will no longer hold you back and sabotage your efforts to get what you want. You no longer need to plan your life around your alcohol consumption. You are free.

Better Health

• Alcohol damages every part of your body and leads to deficiencies in vital nutrients necessary for maintaining your health. Once you remove alcohol from your life, your body will detox what remains. You will replenish your supply of all the vitamins and minerals you have been lacking. Eliminating the alcohol will allow your organs to heal and your body to go back to its normal process of nutrient metabolism.

Renewed Relationships

• Sobriety gives you the opportunity to reestablish relationships with friends and family. Addiction often takes front and center ahead of everything in your life, including the people closest to you, and can completely destroy your relationships. Alcohol serves as a barrier to healthy interactions, and sobriety removes it, allowing you to begin the healing process and make amends for your actions.