by Liz | Aug 2, 2019 | Alcoholic, Clean Time, Long-Term Sobriety, Recovery, Scared, Sober, Sober and Scared, Sobriety
Have you been scared in sobriety?I have.For the longest time I had this script running through my mind that I wasn’t supposed to be scared after I reached a certain point in my sobriety. I thought that if I had enough faith, friends, and was doing everything...
by Liz | Jun 18, 2019 | Addict, Alcoholic, Clean Time, Long-Term Sobriety, Recovery, Sober, Sobriety, Surviving, Things To Do
What do you do now that you’re sober?!?! How does anyone have fun? Socialize? Interact with…LIFE? I always had one addiction or another working at all times. If it wasn’t my anorexia, it was my love addiction. If it wasn’t my love addiction,...
by Liz | Jun 3, 2019 | Addict, Alcoholic, Anonymity, Anorexia, Anorexic, Clean Time, Long-Term Sobriety, Recovery, Sober, Sobriety, Women
I had mild delirium tremens (DTs) when I quit drinking. Nothing that I needed to be hospitalized for. Back in the olden days, when I got sober, sweet things to eat were at all the meetings and encouraged by people with long-term sobriety to help people in new sobriety...
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...