by Liz | Feb 18, 2020 | Addict, Alcoholic, Long-Term Sobriety, Recovery, Relationships, Sober, Sober Spiral of Recovery
I don’t want to bullshit anyone in this blog… My last 25+ years of recovery have not been linear. I have not constantly progressed in a nice little line, always moving on an upward trajectory…↗️ I thought this was how it was going to go when I first...
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 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...
