![]() ![]() Sarah Levy recounts her sobriety journey in “Drinking Games.” In January she published her memoir, “ Drinking Games ,” exploring what adapting to life without alcohol looks like when it comes to everything from dating to friendships to wedding season. “Somewhere along the way I realized this could be that book I once looked for, and maybe it could help someone else,” she says. She didn’t know anyone her age who didn’t drink, and she couldn’t find a single relatable book about someone who was functional yet struggling, the way she was.īy 28, she got sober, and she journaled her experience. Levy knew she had a problem, so she set out on a desperate search for answers. But when I woke up the next day, I only felt worse.” I drank because I felt uncomfortable in my own skin, and alcohol instantly made me feel like I was a better version of myself. “On paper everything looked ‘normal,’ but I turned to alcohol to numb and cope with emotions I wasn’t properly dealing with,” she tells the Post. But she was quietly struggling with her relationship with alcohol. On the outside everything looked great - good friends, a steady job, and an apartment. Sarah Levy was a young, twenty-something working in marketing in New York. ‘Dry January’ can work, yes, but beware a ‘boozy December’: experts Steve-O’s sobriety plea to ‘Jackass’ pal Bam Margera: ‘You’re dying, brother’ ‘So thankful’: Golfer opens up after first PGA Tour win since getting sober I’ve smoked pot every day for 9 years - here’s what it’s like to quit ![]()
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