Lovely long term community member @hetiheti wrote in the Members Feed recently as she approached her 700th sober day; “this sober...
Mrs D’s Blog
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 lifestyle. Guest posts from other writers in recovery also feature on this page.
This wonderful poem was written by our very clever long-time member @pearl. With her permission I am reprinting it...
I think we need to accept that there is a certain amount of grief that goes with getting sober....
I’ve always said that one of the most helpful things for me in staying sober is remembering very clearly...
This update was posted by our beloved long-time member @ylang-ylang (over 700 sober days hooray!) in the Members Feed...
That’s where most of my boozing went on in the latter years. Behind closed doors, in my house, on...
Getting sober is hard work – it is! Anyone who says otherwise is either lucky or lying. Of course...
Well this is exciting! Finally I get to publish the results of the Members Survey that we ran over...
This guest post comes from Jay, the Community Outreach Director at One Mind Dharma. ========== On March 20th of...
We are so fortunate in today’s world that we can do all manner of research, investigation and exploration from...
If anyone is reading this post and hasn’t yet registered to become a member here at Living Sober and...
This might sound strange but in many ways I am grateful for being an addict. Why? Because without having...
This guest post comes from Mark Goodson, author of the blog ‘The Miracle of the Mundane” (great title, great...
I think a big part of the reason I’ve never picked up a drink since I made the decision...
I was interviewed by a journalist the other day (you can read the article here) and I was describing...
This guest post comes from my lovely friend Ali Ikram – a man who grew up in New Zealand...
Today is day 1630 of sobriety for me and this is proving an interesting time for me right now… The...
A lovely man who worked in the addiction sector here in New Zealand passed away recently. His name was David...
Once again here I am going on about brain re-training. It is VITAL! It is CRUCIAL! It is HUGELY...
We talk about self-care a lot here at Living Sober. It’s so ridiculously important. Right now for me it’s the...
I just celebrated my 1600th sober day! I probably wouldn’t bother counting days at this stage of my sobriety...
This guest post was written by the wise and lovely@suek after she hosted some friends for dinner recently. ============ @suek:...
Alcohol is such a tricky drug. On the surface it appears to help us deal with things by relaxing us...
I knew after I stopped drinking that in order to be genuinely at peace with being sober I needed to retrain my...
I go on a lot about brain-retraining in early sobriety… how we need to really embrace the reality of...
Some more Christmas and New Years inspiration for you – this post comes from @_jjw_, a smart and lovely kiwi dude,...
This post follows on from @suek’s last guest post ‘When Sober Gets Old‘. Here she offers some fantastic practical...
This guest post comes from my dear friend @suek. She writes brilliantly and is always full of such wisdom and...
I’m not sure that you can just stop drinking alcohol and make no other changes or do no other...
The Silly Season is fast approaching and already there are rumblings in the Members Feed about what a difficult...
It’s very hard to explain the intensity of a drinking dream to someone who isn’t sober. It’s one of those...
The biggest thing I always want to say when I’m asked about my sobriety is that living alcohol-free life is not...
It seems to me that a lot of people have been commenting in the Members Feed recently about all...
Living Sober has just had it’s inaugural annual get-together! A community-led meet up of brave sober warriors in Wellington....
This might seem a bit silly and trite but I’m often incredulous about this. Before I got sober I...
Am I a failure because I’m not calm and contented all the time? Am I a failure because I...
There’s so much talk in sobriety about us all learning to take care of ourselves (so often a foreign...
We are very fortunate that the lovely @suek has written another exceptional guest post for us. Sue’s writing ability...
Occasionally I get asked to speak at events about my drinking and sobriety story. Strangely it’s not something I...
Today’s guest post comes from Bren Murphy who writes the blog Last 100 Days Alcoholic. Bren was a HUGE support to me...
I don’t think I was very resilient when I first got sober. My emotional coping mechanisms weren’t well formed...
Today marks one year since my big TV ‘outing’ as an alcoholic in recovery. It was a huge scary...
Did you know that when you get sober you develop X-Ray eyes? You do! It’s amazing. @chatnoir discovered this...
Member @ylang-ylang posted this update in the Members Feed the other day and many of us thought it was...
Ok I am officially a sober freak! It’s Saturday morning and I woke today at 6.20am, picked up my...
I’ve been doing this new thing in regards to my emotions. Lately I’ve been finding that I’m not only...
A member posted this question in the Members Feed the other day… “I need some wise advice. So how do...
On my lowest days I sometimes have glum thoughts about my sobriety. It happens rarely nowadays (at 3+ years sober)...
5 o’clock was bloody hard for me in the early days of getting sober. Very bloody hard. Because this...
It’s such a loaded word ‘boundaries’. People say it with such gravitas sometimes. ‘Know your boundaries’ they might say...