What could possibly be "lucky" about addiction? Absolutely nothing, thought Laura McKowen when drinking brought her "to her knees." The people who got to drink normally, she thought, were so damn lucky. But in the midst of early sobriety, when no longer able to anesthetize her pain and anxiety, she realized, with more than a bit of amazement, that she was actually the lucky one. She posted these sentiments to Instagram with the hashtag "wearetheluckiest" and the concept took off.
In her sellout workshop series she met a woman with the words tattooed on her arm, WATL t-shirts and mugs were created, and the phrase became a shorthand way of coming out as sober. Here, in straight-talking chapters filled with personal stories, McKowen addresses issues such as facing facts, the question of AA, and other people's drinking.
Without sugarcoating the struggles of recovery, she relentlessly emphasizes the many blessings of an honest life, one without secrets and debilitating guilt. McKowen flips the script on how we talk about sobriety and shows readers that the question we should be asking in our lives is not, "Is this bad enough that I have to change?" but rather, "Is this good enough to stay the same?"
