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About Living Sober

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Tools to take control

Sick of waging a fierce internal battle with yourself about alcohol? Ready to try and turn things around? This site is a safe space dedicated to helping you help yourself. 

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Wealth of content

You’ll find plenty of thought-provoking and inspiring reading material on our site. Advice on how to reframe your thinking, wisdom from people who have faced their own drinking issues and insights from addiction experts.

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Caring online community

When you become a member of Living Sober you gain access to our Members Feed, where there are countless different voices sharing their truths, trials and triumphs and supporting each other. Becoming a member is free and you can be anonymous.  

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Community Manager

Mrs D is Living Sober’s Community Manager. Mrs D is the name Lotta Dann gave herself when she began anonymously blogging in 2011. Through her long-running blog, Mrs D Is Going Without, Lotta discovered the incredible power of online support for people quitting drinking. Her best-selling memoir, telling the story of her recovery, was published in 2014, and later that same year Living Sober was launched.

Living Sober takes all of the powerful aspects Lotta discovered about online recovery, and condenses it here into one space, making it readily accessible for thousands of people so that they can also turn their lives around. Lotta produces all of the content on this site and monitors the Members Feed.

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Admin support

Support for the platform and community is provided by The NZ Drug Foundation. You can contact the team at admin@livingsober.org.nz if you have any questions or challenges with the website.

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This is a free website and it’s important to us that it remains open to anyone who wants or needs us, with no barriers to entry. However, if you are in a position to contribute towards our running costs, we would be extremely grateful.

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Our partners

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Te Whatu Ora | Health New Zealand

Have been the primary funder of Living Sober since it started in 2014. This Crown entity leads and delivers programmes, advice and research on alcohol issues, aims to prevent and reduce alcohol-related harm, and works to inspire New Zealanders to make better decisions when it comes to drinking alcohol.

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Te Puna Whakaiti Pāmaemae Kai Whakapiri | The NZ Drug Foundation

Have overseen the development and operation of Living Sober from the beginning. For over 20 years the NZ Drug Foundation has been working to prevent and reduce the immense social, health and economic harms caused by alcohol and other drugs in our communities. The NZ Drug Foundation is a registered New Zealand charity (CC27025).