What is the Pink Cloud?

Everything you need to know about this surprising stage of recovery.

Benya Clark
Exploring Sobriety
Published in
5 min readJan 19, 2024

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This essay originally appeared in the Exploring Sobriety newsletter.

Pink-tinged clouds.
Photo by eberhard 🖐 grossgasteiger on Unsplash

My first two weeks sober were terrible. I had spent a decade daydreaming about how wonderful my life would be when I finally kicked my drinking habit. Then I quit drinking and ran headfirst into a wall of…

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Benya Clark
Exploring Sobriety

I’m a lawyer turned writer from North Carolina. I write about sobriety, mental health, and more. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter at exploringsobriety.com.