Growing Up In Recovery After You Get Sober
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 […]
5 Tips To Create The Recovery Lifestyle
What Is The Recovery Lifestyle The recovery lifestyle is what you do after you put down your drinks and drugs. ddiction recovery starts with putting down a drink or drug, or whatever the addictive substance or behavior is, but then A LOT more has to happen for most people to recover. It’s not like putting […]
6 Tips To Nurture Self Esteem
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
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
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 […]
6 Ways To Feel Good With A Recovery Lifestyle
The Recovery Lifestyle Ensures More Happiness Less Pain Why should you consider adding some new thoughts and activities to your life in recovery? Take it from me, my life got significantly better when I stopped trying to be a part of a life and world that didn’t suit my sober life and I created an […]