How To Stay Connected Through The Holidays

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Holiday Loneliness Can Feel Terrible But You Can Also Take Care Of Yourself If you are worried about holiday loneliness, this article is for you. Because being prepared and having a plan can make all the difference in the world. More than ever, it’s important to stay connected and keep holiday loneliness at bay this […]

5 Tips To Create The Recovery Lifestyle

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 The Recovery Lifestyle Is The Missing Piece If you are in recovery from anything and you are not loving your life, you may want to look at that. I’m not saying anyone’s life is, or should be, perfect all the time. But, feeling joy, satisfaction, even love, are the things we work on our recovery for […]

Growing Up In Recovery After You Get Sober

Growing up in Recovery

Growing Up In Recovery: I Wrote The Book Why growing up in recovery is not just stopping using. If you stick around recovery groups for a while, you’ll eventually hear someone talk about growing up in recovery. That’s my story. When this all began, I simply needed to get sober and stay sober. What I […]

6 Tips To Nurture Self Esteem

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You Can Nurture Self Esteem And Find Actions To Practice Building It Self esteem affects everything in your life. If you have healthy, abundant self-esteem, it will help you in the workplace, in relationships, and even with family. If you are like me, and so many others in recovery, self-esteem is something you need to […]

5 Tips To Make Sober Friends

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Ready To Make Sober Friends In the olden days of pre-internet, if you wanted to meet other sober people your options were limited. Pre-2007ish, if you wanted to meet sober people, you could go to a 12-step meeting where you had to get a meeting book and pick random meetings to attend until you found […]

Don’t Leave Before The Miracle Happens

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Miracles Like Recovery Don’t Happen On Our Timeline When I speak in recovery circles, the first thing I admit is that I am no one chip wonder. I didn’t get sober once, twice, or even three times. I have been getting sober for 24 years. I got a year, then lost eight. I went to […]