JANET MBUGUA ON WHY SHE QUIT DRINKING

Media personality Janet Mbugua has opened up about her sobriety journey.

Speaking on her YouTube channel, Janet said she had a sporadic dependence to alcohol, “I did not have attachment to or a dangerous drinking habit but something interesting happened when I stopped drinking, I realised I had to grieve the person that used to drink socially and maybe a little bit more than socially when I was having a bad day. 

There was still a sporadic dependence on alcohol. It was a way that I would cope even though it didn’t necessarily become this dangerous pattern, there is a possibility that it could have been. One of the reasons why I stopped was the fear of spiralling or escalating to something worse.”

After she quit drinking, Mbugua says she had to be honest with herself and learn how to navigate trauma, “The other thing that people don’t tell you is you have to face the noise in your head. You have to become so honest with yourself without having to grab on to something. It is very scary, triggering and traumatic to navigate. Right now I’m in a heavy season of facing stuck realities and overcoming certain wounds that I could not have seen in the guise of drinking.”