One of the questions I often get asked is, “How the heck did you get sober?” Truth be told, it’s a question that I often ask myself. At the time, I was living and working in South Korea as an English teacher. My life had been spiralling exponentially out of control, and I was utterly exasperated. I had hit an almighty rock bottom, and for the first time in my life, I accepted that the booze had to go.