How People Trap Themselves In Addiction #addictionrecovery #gettingsober #sobercurious

This is the identity trap. You're known a certain way, and you have even developed your own sort of image of yourself that ties to addiction. You see yourself as the life of the party. Other people see you as the life of the party or someone that always has a drink in their hand or something like that. And we get caught in these traps. And this is the most likely thing that's going to pull you back more than those things that you're probably thinking of as the danger zones. Recovery really is about so much more than just giving up a substance or a behavior. It's about changing who you are. And I don't like to throw that on people right out the gate because the whole idea of giving up the substance or the behavior feels big enough. And when you throw in there, oh, you have to change everything, that's kind of scary. So I don't want to— scare you away, but I do want to be honest with you about what it takes