Fun Ways to Celebrate Your Sobriety This Year

Dara Laine Murray
9 min readJan 16, 2023

If you’ve been sober for a while, you might be ready to take some time off to celebrate. You’ve accomplished a lot, so why not recognize the important moments in your sobriety journey? The truth is that if you start celebrating your achievements too early or too often, it can actually jeopardize your ability to stay sober in the long run. However, there are myriad ways to show yourself some love without throwing yourself back into old habits. It’s all about balance.

In this article, I’ll go over some of those fun ideas and strategies for how to celebrate without losing ground on your recovery work!

Fun Ways to Celebrate Your Sobriety This Year
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By taking time off to celebrate your sobriety, you can actually do even more to protect it.

By taking time off to celebrate your sobriety, you can do even more to protect it. By honoring each milestone, you will keep the reasons for staying sober fresh in mind. The last thing you need is to be celebrating an anniversary without remembering why it’s important.

Taking a break and looking back on the past year can help you reflect on where your life has been since becoming sober and give you motivation for where it’s going next. In addition, celebrating sobriety with others makes it easier to stay accountable and avoid temptation when they…

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Dara Laine Murray

Multi-passionate sobriety writer on Medium. Day job: Director of Research at a nonprofit. Stories = sober + stats. Editor: https://medium.com/modern-sobriety