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Existential Dread, Sobriety, and the Next Right Thing

Existential Dread, Sobriety, and the Next Right Thing

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Existential Dread, Sobriety, and the Next Right ThingIt’s late September, it’s 100 degrees, my four-year-old is playing T-ball, and my brain has decided this is the perfect time to contemplate death by artificial intelligence, sobriety, money, motherhood, and the meaning of life. All at once. Last week, I went back to Arizona to visit my 82-year-old aunt and some friends. While I was there, I made the brilliant decision to go hiking alone at 1 p.m. in 97-degree heat.My phone overheated and died. I was alone. I was a mile from the road. And suddenly all those warnings I had spent years dismissing started sounding considerably less ridiculous.Then I came home and started reading about the possibility that increasingly powerful AI could pose an existential threat to humanity.But underneath all of that fear was something more familiar: my brain doing what it does when I let it run too far ahead.That’s why I went to a meeting.I’ve been sober for 23 years, and I still go to meetings because sobriety isn't just about not drinking. It’s about learning what to do with your own mind. Sometimes the most important lesson is simply to stop trying to solve the next five years and figure out what the next right thing is.In this episode, I read “Three Years Later” by Brian Smith, a personal essay about waking up in the woods after a devastating period of alcohol addiction, hospitalization, detox, mental-health treatment, outpatient rehab, and the long process of rebuilding a life.Brian's story reminded me that recovery doesn't really have an ending. Just like I talked about last week, we’re all just iterating. You just have to keep moving forward.One day at a time. One week at a time. One story at a time.In this episodeA terrifying solo hike in the Arizona heatWhat happens when your phone dies in the middle of nowhereExistential dread and catastrophic thinkingMotherhood and realizing how much you have to live for23 years of sobrietyWhy I still go to recovery meetingsThe difference between surviving and actually livingBrian Smith's “Three Years Later”Addiction, detox, hospitalization, and outpatient treatmentRebuilding trust after addictionWhy structure can save youWriting as a way to untangle your thoughtsThe power of doing the next right thingWhat recovery looks like at one day, one month, one year, and beyond.About Brian Smith's storyBrian Smith writes Between Detox and Daylight, where he documents his recovery journey and what happens after the crisis is over.His essay “Three Years Later” takes us back to the woods where his story began—and then walks through the hospital, detox, mental-health treatment, rehab, meetings, work, and the first fragile months of rebuilding his life.I’m grateful he shared it.The takeawayYou don't have to solve everything today.You don't have to know what the next three years look like.Sometimes you just need to breathe, count to 500, go to the meeting, hug your kid, write the thing down, and do the next right thing.That's enough.Follow Born to RambleNew episodes, personal essays, stories from Substack writers, writing inspiration, sobriety, motherhood, creativity, and whatever else I can't stop thinking about.Subscribe, follow, and come ramble with me.And if you’re feeling tres generous! Buy me a coffee or check out my creative writing inspiration packs! Get full access to Born to Ramble at borntoramble.substack.com/subscribe
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