Addictions and bad habits are the tools we use to stay disconnected from the pain of trauma. It's not the substance. It's our relationship to it. I'm 2+ years off coffee, with brief flirtations that nearly always end making me feel badly.

I got into the feeling-sense of it in this piece - https://psiloveyou.xyz/the-messy-results-of-chronic-over-extension-21ed8bdde87e .

Congrats on your sobriety from alcohol. I always wondered how you write so much :)