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...
by Liz | Oct 8, 2018 | Birthdays, Clean Time, Coins, Long-Term Sobriety, Relapse, Sober, Sobriety, Sponsee, Sponsor, Starting Over
I sponsor someone who got sober in her 70’s. She reached 5 years of sobriety and, like so many around that particular year, she drank. Prior to that drink, she met with me weekly and we had gone through all twelve Steps, and went back to each Step, as needed....