Jessica Simpson says alcohol ‘blocked my dreams’ as she cele...

Jessica Simpson says alcohol ‘blocked my dreams’ as she celebrates 8 years of sobriety

Jessica Simpson reflected on alcohol having “blocked [her] dreams” as she celebrated eight years of sobriety on Instagram. “8 years ago today I made the choice to confront, to confess and to let go of the self-sabotaging parts of my life that I was choosing,” Simpson wrote alongside her smiling selfie on Saturday. “Making that decision allowed me to fully live in the pursuit of God’s purpose for my life. Alcohol silenced my intuition, blocked my dreams and chased my circulating fears of complacency.” “Today I am clear. Today I am driven by faith,” she continued. “Both fear and faith are something that we feel and may not see, I’m so happy I chose faith over fear. It was not in the fight that I found my strength, it was in the surrender,” Simpson, 45, closed her message. As the singer– who announced her separation from her husband Eric Johnson in January — makes her return to music after a nearly 15-year hiatus, she told People Magazine that her sobriety helped her song writing. “The moment I started drinking too much was when I started writing music in 2016 and it was making me go to places and feel sorry for myself,” she told the outlet. “I don’t know why I wanted to feel sorry for myself other than the alcohol was lying to me and saying, ‘You’re braver because you can say this with me on your side,'” she continued, adding that the sentiment is “not true.” “I actually am so much more honest without alcohol, and I actually believe myself so much more without alcohol,” she said. “I personally feel like it made my emotions quiet. Instead of addressing them, dealing with them and getting through it, I was just letting them be.” The “Dukes of Hazzard” actress previously revealed in her memoir, “Open Book,” that she decided to quit drinking after her inebriation prevented her from dressing her kids for Halloween that year. “I was terrified of letting them see me in that shape,” she wrote. “I am ashamed to say that I don’t know who got them into their costumes that night.” Simpson was also addicted to diet pills for two decades.

Jessica Simpson reflected on alcohol having “blocked [her] dreams” as she celebrated eight years of sobriety on Instagram.

“8 years ago today I made the choice to confront, to confess and to let go of the self-sabotaging parts of my life that I was choosing,” Simpson wrote alongside her smiling selfie on Saturday.

“Making that decision allowed me to fully live in the pursuit of God’s purpose for my life. Alcohol silenced my intuition, blocked my dreams and chased my circulating fears of complacency.”

“Today I am clear. Today I am driven by faith,” she continued.

“Both fear and faith are something that we feel and may not see, I’m so happy I chose faith over fear. It was not in the fight that I found my strength, it was in the surrender,” Simpson, 45, closed her message.

As the singer– who announced her separation from her husband Eric Johnson in January — makes her return to music after a nearly 15-year hiatus, she told People Magazine that her sobriety helped her song writing.

“The moment I started drinking too much was when I started writing music in 2016 and it was making me go to places and feel sorry for myself,” she told the outlet.

“I don’t know why I wanted to feel sorry for myself other than the alcohol was lying to me and saying, ‘You’re braver because you can say this with me on your side,'” she continued, adding that the sentiment is “not true.”

“I actually am so much more honest without alcohol, and I actually believe myself so much more without alcohol,” she said.

“I personally feel like it made my emotions quiet. Instead of addressing them, dealing with them and getting through it, I was just letting them be.”

The “Dukes of Hazzard” actress previously revealed in her memoir, “Open Book,” that she decided to quit drinking after her inebriation prevented her from dressing her kids for Halloween that year.

“I was terrified of letting them see me in that shape,” she wrote. “I am ashamed to say that I don’t know who got them into their costumes that night.”

Simpson was also addicted to diet pills for two decades.