The four steps I took to break free from alcohol.

Simple, but not easy. And even if you don't struggle with drinking, these can help you with other issues.

Before we get started, let me say this: I’m not some used car salesman trying to sell you a lemon. I’m not a snake oil salesman at a carnival trying to convince you my elixir will cure all. I’m not even a counselor with years of training that knows the right thing to say all the time.

But what I am is this: I’m you.

“You” could be an alcoholic or someone who struggles with drinking. It could be someone with another addiction. It could be someone with an anger issue, narcissism, or a sex/lust/porn addiction.

In other words, I am someone who struggled with a misordered relationship with a substance, and a misordered relationship is a disordered relationship (especially as a Christian). And guess what: we’re all disordered to some degree.

As

Seth Haines

says, “I suppose we're all drunk on something.”

Yes. Yes we are.

I say all that because with this final installment of my sobriety anniversary posts, I’m detailing the steps I took to crawl out of the pit of my addiction. And while they worked for me…