by Liz | Jan 8, 2019 | Clean Time, Just for Today, Long-Term Sobriety, Meetings, Recovery, Sober, Sober 2019, Sober Day, Sobriety, Sponsee, Sponsor
Here it is…as promised…the first in the Sober Series. I am calling it: “Sober Day”.Ya gotta start with the first sober day, right?I am here to tell you people, it was brutal. Damn ugly.Is there ever a first day of sobriety (after you’ve...
by Liz | Jan 2, 2019 | Clean Time, Just for Today, Long-Term Sobriety, Recovery, Sober, Sober 2019, Sobriety
It’s 2019. Welcome to it!I’m going to try something new. Not really because it’s 2019. Just because I thought of it, and it happens to be a new year. It’s convenient timing. It’s one of those “coincidences”, and I happened to...
by Liz | Jan 1, 2019 | Clean Time, Long-Term Sobriety, Meetings, Recovery, Sober, Sober 2019, Sober Day, Sober Night, Sobriety, Sponsee, Sponsor
Getting through a Sober Night is not easy. For a lot of reasons. Let me count the ways… I deprived my brain of it’s primary nutrient/drug. Simple chemistry can explain the problem there. Without being passed out/blacked out, I had to depend on my...
by Liz | Dec 20, 2018 | Addict, Alcoholic, Clean Time, Long-Term Sobriety, Recovery, Relapse, Sober, Sobriety, Starting Over, Think
When I have wanted to drink or use, I have been told by people wiser than me to “think through the drink”. They meant that I was supposed to think about what would happen if I ACTUALLY took that first drink. I created a simplified version of how this would...
by Liz | Dec 4, 2018 | Addict, Alcoholic, Long-Term Sobriety, Sobriety
My husband and I were driving home from a gorgeous day of sailing with my sponsor. He was in the car in front of me and was pulling up to a 4-way stop. I was about 20 yards behind him. I saw a car coming out of the intersection to our left going about 40 miles an...
