by Liz | Aug 19, 2020 | 12 Steps, Gratitude, Grieving, Long-Term Sobriety, Love, Mom, Mother, My First Sponsor, Recovery, Relationships, Sponsee, Sponsor, Women
This post is dedicated to Kate…my first Sponsor. In case you don’t know what a Sponsor is (and yes, I mean to capitalize the term), a Sponsor is a person that acts as a mentor or guide through the 12 Steps of any Anonymous program of recovery...
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 | 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 | Oct 29, 2018 | Addict, Alcoholic, Sponsor
I was 22 when my brother took me to my first recovery meeting for my drinking. 25 years ago, that was considered young to get sober and I was surrounded by people much older than me telling me what to do. I looked at all the differences instead of the similarities in...
