Maintaining sobriety is the single most important accomplishment in her life because it breaks a cycle of addiction within her biological family.

“I'm being sober is going to be a legacy for sure yes because you're you're stopping what has been a generational issue in my biological family so for me sobriety is the greatest it will be the single greatest thing I do if I can stay sober yeah I mean this without question you will”

Sobriety has allowed him to stop his own self-destructive tendencies and gain a deeper consciousness of life and his own emotional experiences.

“I had suspicions before I got sober of things of the depth of life and experience and how painful life could be and would be for us all eventually all that stuff but I had no ability to hold that without being somewhat self-destructive and without kind of living in it I don't live in that now”

Giving up alcohol is a transformational experience that opens up a much better way of being for those whose drinking is problematic but who are not necessarily alcoholics.

“but nonetheless is problematic enough such that giving it up opens up their lives to a much better way of being.”

A massive cultural transformation regarding the relationship with alcohol is expected to occur within the next five years.

“I think alcohol will be like smoking and I think culturally we're going to see a massive transformation in the next 5 years of people's relationship with alcohol.”

Dax reflects that for him, the true gift of getting sober was realizing that fame and material success do not provide internal happiness or self-esteem.

“I had all the things that I was certain were going to make me happy and even deeper make me like myself and have self-esteem and I was the furthest from it and so the gift of that is like oh it's not those things something much bigger is broken”

Relapsing on alcohol and drugs provides a clear immediate negative consequence, which he considers a blessing because it prevents him from prolonging the cycle of addiction.

“my body bottoms happen so fast me too that it it it there's no chance for me to elongate it like a lot of people are like if I drank or did drugs again I might die and I could die the next day and I'm like no no no the wor I would wish to die because the worst thing that could happen to me would be ”

She expresses that relapsing after being sober for a significant period is an intense and difficult experience.

“I did two seasons with you you're asking me how many season yeah no I did with you specifically oh I came on halfway during a season I think you did another year after that I I went through remember what seasons middle of tooth middle of Wow season four maybe four nine eight five six seven eight mid”

Addicts should avoid focusing on the cause of their addiction and instead prioritize finding a solution to get help.

“but if we come sit here and point fingers that's not going to do anything because I point fingers for a long time I'm what you call a doctor addict I I I said it was some swag too so it could make me feel like I was so different my situation was so unique”