What You Actually Need to Start Your Sober Journey

Deciding to get sober is a massive turning point, maybe one of the biggest you’ll ever face. It’s a choice to take back control from a disease that works its way into every corner of a person's life. Addiction is a strange and powerful mental illness; it doesn't care about your background, your job, or how old you are. The statistics are frankly staggering. We see numbers like 14.1 million American adults with an alcohol use disorder, or that drug overdoses have claimed over 750,000 lives in two decades.

But addiction is always a personal story, a battle fought inside an individual and their family. The national crisis is made up of millions of these private struggles. If you're reading this, you might be in the middle of one right now. The good thing is that every single recovery story starts with the same thing: a first step. This is a look at what you actually need to take it.