When you trade one addiction for another

My addiction to alcohol was traded for an addiction to energy drinks.

Photo by Kevin Lehtla on Unsplash

I wanted to believe so badly that alcohol was the only thing I was addicted to. That when I stopped drinking, I would have a surplus of willpower. I had this image in my head of who I would become when I went sober- a well dressed, put together young woman who had the perfect diet and drank something like kombucha. Someone…