(+FREE Emotional Sobriety Worksheets) Learn how to achieve emotional sobriety. What Is Emotional Sobriety? ..Emotional sobriety requires an internal shift—a conscious choice to live fully and move forward without self-sabotage.The goal of overcoming addiction isn’t to forever quit whatever addictive behavior you struggled with, especially when the behavior in itself isn’t unhealthy like work, relationships, exercising, etc.