# Sober without classes? **URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/sober-without-classes/134645 **Category:** Advice & Questions **Created:** [January 21, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/sober-without-classes/134645 "2022-01-21T16:58:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![SassyRocks](https://talkingsober.com/user_avatar/talkingsober.com/sassyrocks/32/104454_2.png) [@SassyRocks](https://talkingsober.com/u/SassyRocks) #### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/sober-without-classes/134645/8 "2022-01-21T17:49:47Z")
Yes, I have achieved sobriety working my own program. Five years in March after 40+ of drinking and drugs. You can read about my journey and what worked for me on the links on my profile. ❤ I would write more, but am in transit thru an airport. 🤷‍♀️ Edited to add…waiting for take off, here is a list of some of the many things that assisted in my sobriety… > [@A lifelong drinker hits 1200 days sober](https://talkingsober.com/t/a-lifelong-drinker-hits-1200-days-sober/92365): > > I spent more than 40 years drinking and using various drugs. It was all I knew. It was social and ‘fun’, until it wasn’t. My drinking wasn’t ‘fun’ or normal for a couple of decades, but denial and lethargy can keep you stuck…and that pull of oblivion at the bottom of the never ending wine bottle was my friend. I spent decades jumping from one addiction to another to avoid ‘life’ and my self…yet still I did all the adult stuff of home, family, work…the epitome of a ‘functioning alcoholic’…never s… --- _[View the full topic](https://talkingsober.com/t/sober-without-classes/134645)._