🏃‍♂️ Why Exercise Is So Important When You Are On Your Sobriety Journey

Exercise has always been a part of my life.

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I started going to the gym when I was around 18 or 19.

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It became part of who I was.

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It’s now part of who I am.

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Even though I struggled with alcohol and drugs from a younger age than that, I still somehow managed to maintain a regular exercise routine.

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Even after destroying myself with a major binge, as soon as I was sober again I was back into an exercise routine.

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Why?

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Because it made me feel good.

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It made me feel like I’d achieved something worthwhile that day, even in the unlikely event that I did absolutely nothing else.

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These days I don’t need it to make me feel good.

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I feel good most of the time, primarily because I have a strict consistent daily practice of meditation in place.

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But I still like to exercise because it gives me an additional boost 🚀.

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Why does it do that?

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Because when you’ve spent your life relying on drugs and alcohol to make you feel normal or content, or to change your state, you can’t remove those things and expect to just get on with life and be ok.

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You have to replace those things with other things that have a similar positive effect, minus the negative effects.

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If you are fighting for sobriety, or you’re there but struggling for contentment and inner-peace…

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Get into an exercise routine - a consistent daily or every other day routine.

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In a short while…

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You’ll start to notice the positive mental and physical benefits.

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