Brace Myself, Face Myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-ZzKx3Hks All last night, I was sick with anxiety and the growing expectation that I was about to lose my job today. It didn't happen, but I felt myself brace up like I was facing a rising tsunami of yet another obstacle in my ever-changing life. Already formulating a plan financially and loading my resume …

Layers.

Sobriety offers a variety of difficulties that were previously avoided while filling in their absences with even worse ones. But it also comes with a lot of benefits, I'm finding. I'm 9 months sober from alcohol & marijuana while 6 months sober from Xanax. I called it a "thawing out" period when I finally stopped …