Tips and tricks to get through the festive season with your sobriety and your sanity intact.
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This guest post comes from the lovely and very wise Suzy Morrison who works in the addiction sector and...
I love that most nights I sleep very deeply for many hours. Such a change from when I had...
I love our Living Sober community. I just love it. There is so much warmth and kindness going on in...
We are so fortunate in today's world that we can do all manner of research, investigation and exploration from...
(This is a post from 2018 that is worth republishing because of the powerful message it contains for some...
That's how I think of early sobriety. You've jumped off the Boozy Cliff into a ginormous field of Thick Sludgy Mud...
Boy does life change when we quit drinking and are no longer subject to the impacts of artificially altering our...
At the end of my drinking days I was a miserable booze-soaked wreck. I had so much wine coursing...
This guest post comes from Thomas Mabon a.k.a @behind_the_sofa who also volunteers as a Community Moderator on this site....
I have a sneaky suspicion that there are people who visit Living Sober to read blogs and look in...
Someone asked me the other day if I missed drinking. I almost giggled at the absurdity of the question...
Lovely long-time member @morgan travelled to Wellington recently to attend a 21st party. She stayed at her elderly Aunt’s house...
This is one of the main things I want every person who is stuck in a miserable boozy hell-hole...
The Cutting Edge addiction conference is fast approaching! This is a 3-day event run by Dapaanz who are New...
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...
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...
A lovely man who worked in the addiction sector here in New Zealand passed away recently. His name was David...
Living Sober has just had it’s inaugural annual get-together! A community-led meet up of brave sober warriors in Wellington....
Occasionally I get asked to speak at events about my drinking and sobriety story. Strangely it’s not something I...
Someone asked in the Members Feed a while back “When do you stop being a newbie?”. I thought it...
One of the most powerful aspects of blogging for me was externalising my thoughts - getting my dark drinking secrets...
This is my first attempt at making a video in iMovie! It it rough as guts but it is...
I’ve just had a new article published on The Fix – another addiction and recovery website you should know...
I LOVE them. I just love them.. and I cling on to their stories for dear life. Somehow for...
Crying Out Now is another awesome recovery blog everyone should know about. It was one of the first I discovered...
Member @daniel posted this in the Members Feed the other day. He said “People talk of living this sober...
I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by a journalist writing an article on online recovery. She sent me...
I’m having an emotional couple of days. I was a bit shaky yesterday, cried at Yoga last night –...
Just wondering how everyone going tonight? I know there are some people in the members section who are feeling...
Before I ask how everyone is going resisting the pull to drink tonight, I want to feature this update that...
Quarter to five.. how is everyone going tonight?
Brilliantly named ‘Arsenic Hour’ by member ‘mrsmorrison’ yesterday. How’s everyone going with it today? Remember to push your thinking...
Day One of Living Sober.. not sure how many people are going to be on here tonight, but if...
