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Here Lotta Dann writes on topics inspired by discussions taking place within the Living Sober community, and on themes that arise for her as she moves through her own sober life.

Anonymous confessional

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=========== 1: When I was drinking, I used to blackout.

June 27, 2021 – 16 comments

Sobriety is...

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Boozing is living a wild, crazy, blurry, detached and numbed-out life that is sometimes fun and sometimes sad and sometimes downright miserable (when you get to where I was with my boozing).

June 13, 2021 – 12 comments

We didn't know we were missing...

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Someone wrote in the Members Feed recently; “this sober lark is just the best thing ever”.

May 9, 2021 – 6 comments

What 'having boundaries' means to me

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It’s such a loaded word ‘boundaries’.

April 25, 2021 – 19 comments

Tell us what you think

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We currently are running a survey to find out what visitors to Living Sober site think about our site.

March 24, 2021 – 2 comments

The Fear

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The biggest thing I always want to say when asked about my sobriety is that living alcohol-free is not the boring-ass disaster I feared it would be.

February 8, 2021 – 15 comments

Feeling all the feels...

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Make no bones about it.

January 9, 2021 – 8 comments

A letter to my past addicted self

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Someone suggested that I write a letter to my past addicted self.

November 29, 2020 – 10 comments

Blessed relief...

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I was interviewed by a journalist a few years back (you can read the article here) and I was describing to her the crazy struggle that can go on in our heads over the course of a day when we are living with addiction.

November 3, 2020 – 24 comments

Sober Hindsight

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Sober Hindsight is one of my favorite things about living alcohol-free.

October 22, 2020 – 9 comments