No One Talks About The Body’s Awakening in Sobriety

“I knew I was coming down with something, because I felt strange.”

My friend said it so passively, I almost missed it.

She was referring to a flu that smacked her off her feet a few hours later, but it gave me pause for another reason.

For many, many years, I couldn’t trust my body with feelings, knee jerk reactions, and with physical changes. Because for me, I was never sure how much of it was coming from me, and how much was coming from last night’s bottle of wine.