Alcohol is often a solution used by people to mask deep-seated emotional discomfort, and true sobriety requires looking at these underlying issues.

“I often say, you know, the the drugs and the alcohol aren't the problem. They're the solution, right? Like, they're your best friend because they're allowing you to divert all those uncomfortable feelings that you experience in various situations.”

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”

Steve-O asserts that achieving emotional sobriety requires finding fulfillment and serenity from within rather than relying on external validation or commodity-based success.

“you can't be emotionally sober so long as you derive your your fulfillment your your happiness your serenity from external validation”

Sobriety helped him acknowledge and reconcile different parts of himself, ultimately leading to a more authentic and fully realized life.

“I think in a in a way after sobriety, I was sort of forced to reckon with all of the different parts of me and make peace with the things that I didn't like”

Sustainable sobriety is achieved by changing one's mindset rather than viewing it as a state of deprivation.

“It was never going to be something I could do. I always thought of the idea of like AA is like, okay, you drink too much, you're an alcoholic, like you go to AA and you have this disease. It just never that idea never fit with me and I didn't like the idea of living in a way where I had to think abo”

Abstaining from alcohol significantly improved his mental clarity, sleep quality, and overall ability to handle life challenges.

“By the time I had got to June 1st, I was the happiest I would ever been in my life. I could sleep better. I could handle problems better. Things that would go wrong on set that would normally set me off, I could take in my stride. I had so much such better mental clarity.”

Alcohol interferes with optimal health and performance, and individuals should consider eliminating it to achieve their full potential.

“If you are regularly consuming alcohol, it is holding you back. Even if you're only very periodically consuming it, it's holding you back. There is no positive physiological benefit whatsoever. Yeah. That comes from drinking period.”

Khalyla Kuhn believes that avoiding substances is necessary for her to maintain personal balance given her anxiety.

“I am a very anxious person I have certain things that are already baseline wrong with me and I just don't I don't want I don't want to take anything that might exacerbate anything and for me the last straw the last time I took an edible I had the worst panic attack of my life”

Tana maintains that she feels the best she has ever felt in her life since she became sober.

“I do feel the best I've ever felt and like I work way harder I'm way happier like you know I me just feeling well”

He believes that sobriety is a positive lifestyle choice that allows him to remain himself without the numbing effects of alcohol.

“This is me normally this is me sober outgoing talkative like I wanna I want to talk jive be funny all [ __ ] when I drink I actually shell up and I become less funny less talkative less me”

He believes that recovery from addiction requires total commitment and abstinence after a certain period of time.

“I like for people who are a year three years five years into their recovery they like people need to lock in and be sober 100%”

Tim Dillon states that he cannot practice moderation and must remain completely abstinent from all substances to maintain his sobriety.

“to me being sober is sober i i can't do anything because it always leads to other if that's right if i start smoking pot i'm gonna suck a guy's [ __ ] on the street corner and like you know i mean and i'm gay like it's not this is not good i can't do anything”

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 ”

Evan Honer quit using drugs three years ago because he realized he could not practice moderation.

“And then I tried doing the thing where like you just have I'll just have a couple drinks. It doesn't work like that. It's like Yeah. It's like one or you know, it's like one's too many, a thousand's never enough.”