Sobriety is great. I never would have believed that statement was possible a year ago but today I can say it with total confidence. Whenever I decline a drink, the first question I am asked is, "Why not?" So I created this vlog to share with you all why I personally believe that sobriety is great. If you're struggling with addiction feel free to comment or message me and read the quotes I found via Huffington Post below for encouragement. 

1. Bradley Cooper - "If I continued it, I was really going to sabotage my whole life. "I don't drink or do drugs anymore," he told People recently. "Being sober helps a great deal … I remember looking at my life, my apartment, my dogs [when I was still using], and I thought, 'What's happening?'"
2. Eva Mendes - "I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better. This is a life or death situation."
3. Blake Lively - “I don’t drink. I’ve never tried a drug," she told Allure. "It's just something that I genuinely don't have a desire for."
4. Russell Brand - "10 years clean today. Thanks for all your messages of love. Anyone can get clean, one day at a time." (shared on social media)
5. Christina Ricci - “You know, I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn’t think it was very good for my life."
6. Jada Pinkett Smith - "I found myself drinking two bottles of wine on the couch and I said, 'Jada, I think we've got a problem here,'" she said (via Contact Music). "I had problems with alcohol and I really had to get in contact with the pain, whatever that is, and then I had to get some other tools in how to deal with the pain. From that day on I went cold turkey; I haven't had a drink in eight years."
7. Kristin Davis - “Every once in a while, I’ll be with friends and they’ll be drinking red wine and I’ll think, in a really innocent way, Oh wow, that’s such a wonderful glass of red wine. Wouldn’t it be fun to drink it? Maybe it would be fine, but it’s really not worth the risk.”
8. Jennifer Lopez - "I think that ruins your skin. Of course, during celebratory toasts, everybody's like, 'You can't toast with water!' So I'll toast with alcohol and just take a sip."
9. Colin Farrell - "Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It’s really lovely to be present in my life," he told Ellen DeGeneres earlier this year. "I was terrified [of being sober] because, I'm not saying I was a great actor before or a great actor since, but I was terrified that whatever my capacity was as an actor beforehand, however little or large — it would completely dispappear."
10. Kelly Osbourne - "I had been to rehab several times and reached a point where I was taking more of what I was doing in hopes that I wouldn't wake up. And when I got to that point, the next morning I woke up and I was like, 'I just prayed for death. What the hell is wrong with me?'" she told Anderson Cooper, on how she hit rock bottom and finally got sober.

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