by Liz | Apr 7, 2020 | Addict, Alcoholic, but Sober Doesn't, Clean Time, Gratitude, Long-Term Sobriety, Love, Marriage, Online Meetings, Recovery, Relationships, Right Now May Suck, Scared, Sober, Sobriety, Surviving, Things To Do, Uncategorized
Does this Coronavirus quarantine suck for you? You get to say no. Really! Some people LOVE it. I know several people that are on a paid vacation right now. I also know people who are HAPPY to be working instead of stuck at home with nowhere to go. And I’m...
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 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 | Nov 7, 2019 | Sober Friend of Alcoholic/Addict
I am about to tell another friend in sobriety that I cannot have any contact with him because of his using…and it hurts like hell. We’ve been friends for almost 20 years. I call him family. I love him. And, I can’t have him in my life. His drinking...
by Liz | Sep 7, 2019 | Addict, Alcoholic, Anorexic, Clean Time, Long-Term Sobriety, Recovered, Recovering, Recovery, Sober, Sobriety
Are you sober? Recovered? Recovering? Clean? Abstinent? What’s the difference between these? Do you think these labels matter? I don’t. If you’ve read any of my previous stuff, you’ve probably noticed that I’m not hung up on labels. Other...
