But First

No one is preaching here or making you read this. It’s up to you. But the author of this gallery (hi!) is a 12-years sober person who has found movies incredibly helpful in the process of quitting alcohol and other things that weren’t helping my life.

All of us want to get out of our own heads sometimes, and instead of doing that with booze, I now find that movies help me escape my stresses for a few hours without hangovers, a mysteriously empty wallet or those “I said what?” mornings-after. Especially early in sobriety, I very much appreciated movies about people quitting things that harmed them.

So here are a few inspiring movies about getting sober that I like and you may like, too.