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 | Dec 20, 2018 | Addict, Alcoholic, Clean Time, Long-Term Sobriety, Recovery, Relapse, Sober, Sobriety, Starting Over, Think
When I have wanted to drink or use, I have been told by people wiser than me to “think through the drink”. They meant that I was supposed to think about what would happen if I ACTUALLY took that first drink. I created a simplified version of how this would...
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....
