Thread #2: What was your tipping point?

What helped you finally get sober and stay that way? Or: What helps you keep trying to get sober when there hasn't been a "click" moment?

Hey friends let’s try this thread ish again. As a reminder, threads are for paid and scholarshipped folks—if you’re getting this email, you’re able to participate.

A few weeks ago one of you suggested this as a topic for a thread: What makes sobriety stick? I really want to crowd source this because this is typically the question I get the most from folks. Everyone who is drinking and wants to stop and feels like they can’t is hungry to know how that happens for people; what it takes, what “the one thing” is, etc.

Years ago, when I was running Hip Sobriety School (RIP) I asked one of the alumni groups, “for those of you who were able to quit drinking, what was the thing that made it stick?” Inevitably, the answers were all different: not a single person’s tipping point looked like another persons and often enough, it wasn’t just one thing, it was an accumulation.

If you’ve been able to successfully stop drinking, what was the thing that did it for you? What finally made your decision st…