by Liz | Jul 10, 2020 | Addict, Alcoholic, Amends, Anorexic, Apology, Asking Why, I'm sorry, Long-Term Sobriety, Love Addiction, Lying, Making Shit Up, Recovery, Relationships, Sober, Sobriety
When I was active in my addictions, almost every time I spoke, I was lying. At the same time, I know I started lying before I was an active addict. I can trace my lying back to before I took my first drink. But WHY?!?! Lying was a survival technique. Just like my...
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 | 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...
