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 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 […]
What To Do When You Hate Being Sober
Do You Hate Being Sober, So Did I Not surprising you hate being sober at one time or another, especially in early sobriety, so you are not alone. I hate being sober sometimes but the consequences of the alternative are not an option for me anymore. The truth is, these days I only resent my […]
6 Mindful Activities To Boost Winter Sobriety
What Are Mindful Activities And How They Can Help If you’re wondering how you can stay sober when winter weather seems to call for drinking, we have some mindful activities to keep you sober. Mindfulness. It’s setting an intention and following through with your thoughts and actions. Mindfulness can change the way you think about […]