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The Key To Staying Sober👊🗝️🔐

3 May 2023 · 1 min

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The speaker, Amber Hollingsworth, explains that staying sober is primarily about "sanity management": adopting habits and supports that preserve mental stability. She recommends practical supports like counseling (not necessarily addiction-focused) and keeping awareness of one’s addiction present in a non-obsessive way — using a simple, memorable rule-of-thumb (compares addiction to having a nut allergy: don’t test it).

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Maintaining recovery or sobriety are mostly about sanity management. So the things that you can do to help yourself or anything that helps you keep your sanity. So you may want to continue to go to counseling to deal with other stresses in your life, but it doesn't necessarily have to be, like, focused on the addiction, you know, having some way of keeping it in the front center of your mind, in the front center in the way that it's, like, always hard or that you have to give it much attention. We want it to be front and center in the way that you just remember, this doesn't work for you. You have a nut allergy. You have a nut allergy. Isn't going to be here. Let's not test it, because it's not going to end well.