3 Words That Give Alcohol Too Much Power: Recovery, Sober, Alcoholic

Once you’ve been alcohol-free (AF) for a while, they no longer describe you

I hate labels.

Not the kind that come on food packages; the kind that you carelessly slap on other people — and yourself.

Those are the labels that I don’t bother reading.

When human labels are necessary (which is rare), I’m extremely careful about what label I use on myself, and more importantly, how I label others.

Here are some labels I use for myself that I’m totally fine with:

Father, singer/songwriter, writer, trainer, and health coach.

These are positive things that I like about myself and they’re not going to change.

Since we have the ability to change want we want to change, why put a negative label on yourself and walk around with it? It may be an invisible label — but people can still see it.

Let’s start with the label recovery, or as people who once struggled with alcohol but no longer drink might say, “I’m in recovery.”

re·cov·er·y

/rəˈkəv(ə)rē/

noun

1. a return to a normal state of health…