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How I Stopped Caring About Alcohol

From thinking about it all the time to forgetting it even existed.

Kelly Tompkins
4 min readApr 12, 2021
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A realization hit me a couple of nights ago- besides the one month last year where I drank, I have been doing this whole sobriety thing for almost two years now. While I regret drinking in the first place, it was the moment I got 100% confirmation that drinking just wasn’t for me.

But this realization had hit me hard and suddenly; it was the first time I had even thought about my relationship with alcohol and sobriety in months. From thinking about it almost daily to forgetting it even existed, what changed for me? I thought about it for quite a while and this is what I came up with.

I put more effort into my health

In this past year, the pandemic happened and I found myself thinking more and more about how I approached health. As someone who works in tech and plays a lot of video games, I realized if I didn’t make a change that I would be on a steady path to obesity and other health issues. Nothing like a global pandemic as a hard reminder that you need to take care of yourself. And from my last physical at the doctor’s office, I was in need of some changes if I didn’t want to face physical health issues later.

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Kelly Tompkins
Kelly Tompkins

Written by Kelly Tompkins

Austin,Texas sober girl. Lover of horror movies, cats, and fitness. Occasional bad poet.

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