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 | 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...
by Liz | Nov 6, 2018 | 11th Step, Just for Today, Meditation, Peace, Politics
Today, in America, there is A LOT of drama going on. Whether you have one day of sobriety, or several years, the Midterm elections will impact you in one way or another. And, if you’re not from America, believe it or not…the results here will impact you...
