by Liz | Feb 4, 2020 | Addict, Alcoholic, Boundaries in Sobriety, Brain, Clean Time, Drugs, Insulin, Long-Term Sobriety, Meds, Meetings, Pancreas, Recovery, Relapse, Sober, Sober in Recovery, Sobriety, Sponsee, Sponsor, Third Tradition
So, pot is legal where I live now. Ugh. Now, I am meeting people in recovery who smoke pot on a daily basis and say they are sober. This leaves me feeling… I am now officially “old school” and considered an “old timer” in this...
by Liz | Feb 18, 2019 | Clean Time, Long-Term Sobriety, Meetings, Recovery, Sober, Sober Day, Sober Night, Sober? What's That?!?, Sobriety, Sponsee, Sponsor
This post takes off from the end of my last post, “Sober Night”:So, I’m going to these Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. I’m sleeping for shit. My life is falling apart in every way. My relationships are all fucked up. I have someone called a...
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 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...
