Sober & Proud🙌🏾🤎

Some don’t know, others do. I’ve dealt with heavy drinking for a long time. My first time experiencing getting drunk was with my brother and his friends at the young age of 12/13 (may he Rest Peacefully 🙏🏽). I remember it like it was yesterday. He had Magnums (the beer) and Cisco (liquid crack😣). I was pissy drunk. Anywho, he got in trouble and it started something for me that I held on to for many years. I have stopped before, briefly, and started right back. Of course I didn’t drink through my pregnancies either. Something happened in December of 2023 and it changed my life. I decided to stop smoking, yes I was a cigarette girl (Marlboros, the newports were too strong) and I enjoyed a nice cold beer 🍺 and/or vodka (boiler makers were my thing😖). I switched to calpones, the mini cigars, which were not any less dangerous than the cigs😩. It has been one year since I’ve smoked anything and the alcohol is non-existent in my life. I had one bottle that my cousin gave me for my birthday, in April, so I’ll officially celebrate my first complete year of sobriety then. However, I’m proud of myself. It took me a month to drink that bottle and I haven’t touched alcohol since. Out of all the great things that has happened in my life, I am mostly proud about not being a functioning alcoholic anymore! The Creator is Amazing and so are my Ancestors! #GratefulAlways #RideTheWaveThroughTheStorm #KeepPushing #MyLife #AuthenticallyMe #StraightNoChaser #CantLieToYourself #ReInvented 🙌🏾🙏🏽🤎🫶🏽🤩