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January 2020 | Spiritual Awakenings

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For years, New Year’s Eve was a drunken blur. Now that she’s sober, she can remember it

New Year’s Eve was my favorite holiday to get drunk because everyone around me had the same goal—or so I thought. Every New Year’s Eve, I’d convince myself that it was completely normal to get drunk. And each year, the next day I would always make a resolution to drink less and less often. However, every year I drank more and lived with those old feelings of guilt and shame, which only grew throughout the year.

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