Welcome back to the Love You Sober Series! Eliminating the 5 Biggest Obstacles to Continuous Sobriety by Sober Life Coach Allison Marie Conway.
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Episode 3: Building Emotional Strength (Transcript)
Welcome back to the Love You Sober Series: How to Eliminate the 5 Biggest Obstacles to Continuous Sobriety. I am Allison Marie Conway and I will be your virtual coach guiding you through this episode.
So let’s dive in by answering this common question: What is emotional sobriety? I like to sum it up in this way:
Sobriety is freedom from drinking.
Emotional Sobriety is freedom from reacting to overwhelm with reckless destruction.
And emotional sobriety is the cornerstone of long-term sobriety. A person recovering from addiction, or we could say, a person who has used alcohol for an extended period of time to avoid dealing with the discomfort of negative emotions, needs to learn how to regulate those negative emotions so that t…