ThePelotoninstructor, 35, marked one year of sobriety with a lengthyInstagram postWednesday, reflecting on the many ways her life — and her health — have improved since quitting drinking.
“1 YEAR ALCOHOL FREE 🎉” she cheered in her post, which included several text slides detailing her transformation over the past 12 months.
“Today marks the day before the day I was told I most likely have breast cancer. It marks the day before I went for my second opinion and was then sent on to have various scans ahead of my diagnosis a few days later,” she began, referring to her August 2022diagnosis of early triple-positive breast cancer.
“Today also marks the day I stopped drinking alcohol,” she added.
She went on to share some of the positive changes she’s seen since becoming sober, among them mental clarity, better sleep, greater productivity and boosted confidence. “Funnily enough, I’m way more confident without a drink — who knew?” she wrote.
The fitness instructorwrote how living sober helped her be more present and strengthened her connections with people. “Deeper, more purposeful conversations with friends and the people I love,” she explained.
“Deep in the very early stages of traumatic grief and shock, drinking way too much to try and numb an ounce of pain in any way possible, and then diagnosed with cancer a few weeks later, it could’ve been a recipe for disaster,” the trainer wrote.
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Now, she said, she’s taking the time to truly process her pain, attending weekly therapy sessions and nurturing her health and well-being. “To me, this feels like a great achievement and a new stage in life that I’m really proud of,” she noted.
She signed off with, “So let me raise a glass of kombucha (in a lovely glass, because that feels good) to this moment.”
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“It was a really big milestone that I was feeling really anxious about, and it was really great news,” she told PEOPLE at the time.
“For me to be able to get better just felt like such a privilege,” she added. “I remember a cancer nurse saying to me: Those things that you think about now will become so irrelevant even six weeks down the line. I wish I could pass on that knowledge: All the things that we think are important — hair, boobs, looks — when it really comes down to it, they’re just… not.”
source: people.com
