Getting sober and living sober are two very different things. One is a short(ish) term project that is hard work...
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This guest post comes from the lovely and very wise Suzy Morrison who works in the addiction sector and...
It's very hard to explain the intensity of a drinking dream to someone who isn't sober. It's one of those...
A lot of the time I'm just chugging on in my sober life feeling fair-to-middling. Worrying about my studies,...
Sometimes my recovery is extremely ugly. Sometimes my recovery involves tears, yelling, feeling low or inadequate, self-destructive thoughts, grumpiness, a...
Make no bones about it. This is what getting sober is all about. When you quit drinking and commit...
Someone suggested that I write a letter to my past addicted self. So I did and you can see...
I've done a lot of work on myself since I quit drinking nearly 9 years ago. And the biggest...
Someone once asked me: "How do you move on from that need to escape your feelings by soaking yourself...
I love being sober because I never have to waste any emotional energy worrying about how much booze I...
That's how I think of early sobriety. You've jumped off the Boozy Cliff into a ginormous field of Thick Sludgy Mud...
Tiredness has a lot to answer for I reckon. Without us even realising it. Living in a state of...
This guest post comes from Suzy Morrison, the Consumer Project Lead at Matua Raki – one of the agencies...
Lovely long-time member @morgan travelled to Wellington recently to attend a 21st party. She stayed at her elderly Aunt’s house...
We are very fortunate that the lovely @suek has written another insightful guest post for us. I always...
This update was posted by our beloved long-time member @ylang-ylang (over 700 sober days hooray!) in the Members Feed...
This might sound strange but in many ways I am grateful for being an addict. Why? Because without having...
Today is day 1630 of sobriety for me and this is proving an interesting time for me right now… The...
Once again here I am going on about brain re-training. It is VITAL! It is CRUCIAL! It is HUGELY...
Alcohol is such a tricky drug. On the surface it appears to help us deal with things by relaxing us...
This might seem a bit silly and trite but I’m often incredulous about this. Before I got sober I...
We are very fortunate that the lovely @suek has written another exceptional guest post for us. Sue’s writing ability...
I don’t think I was very resilient when I first got sober. My emotional coping mechanisms weren’t well formed...
On my lowest days I sometimes have glum thoughts about my sobriety. It happens rarely nowadays (at 3+ years sober)...
My darling friend @suek is gearing up to move to the other side of the world. I recently asked...
(Warning: Long Post with some science-y stuff in the middle) I’m kind of reluctant to post this because –...
I think I’m getting better at this sober living malarkey. The longer I live with no alcohol in my...
I just got a random lovely email from a dude in Utah – he works at Thistle Creek Ranch...
I’m interested in the concept of boredom … particularly how it relates to boozing & sobriety. I always used...
I’m having an emotional couple of days. I was a bit shaky yesterday, cried at Yoga last night –...
Happy Sunday morning everyone. Our dinner party was lovely, chatty and fun with lots of delicious food and drink. I...
