Thank you for sharing! I can relate to much of your experience. I have, as many of us have, used alcohol as a coping mechanism for many years. Breaking free of its crutches has definitely helped me live a more spiritual, conscious, and intentional life. I am excited to see that societally we are to some degree moving away from being so alcohol-fueled and having other options. We need to become more high vibrational as a society for our individual and collective healing, in my opinion, and part of this is rejecting the cycle of caffeine and alcohol, of uppers and downers.