This guest post comes from Mark Goodson, author of the blog 'The Miracle of the Mundane" (great title, great...
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Make no bones about it. This is what getting sober is all about. When you quit drinking and commit...
I knew after I stopped drinking that if I was going to be genuinely at peace with being sober,...
Negative emotions suck but feeling them raw helps immensley (in understanding them and getting over them quicker). Sadness is...
Alcohol takes us to places that we would never go when sober. Dark places. Dangerous places. I’ve done some...
This guest post comes from Suzy Morrison, the Consumer Project Lead at Matua Raki – one of the agencies...
This guest post comes from our much treasured member @prudence who has worked through some tough circumstances recently including the death of...
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. My husband is away overseas for work so it’s just me and the kids here...
I love that most nights I sleep very deeply for many hours. Such a change from when I had...
The end of the year can be a particularly tricky time for us sober people. Lots of financial pressures, social events to...
Lovely long term community member @hetiheti wrote in the Members Feed recently as she approached her 700th sober day; “this sober...
If anyone is reading this post and hasn’t yet registered to become a member here at Living Sober and...
This guest post comes from my dear friend @suek. She writes brilliantly and is always full of such wisdom and...
The Silly Season is fast approaching and already there are rumblings in the Members Feed about what a difficult...
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....
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...
One of the lovely members of this site @behind-the-sofa recently celebrated 1 year of living alcohol-free (woo hoo!!). He...
Someone asked in the Members Feed a while back “When do you stop being a newbie?”. I thought it...
One of our fabulous members @PJNT has made it to over 160 days sober (whoop!), although she says she’s...
I recently celebrated 1250 days of sobriety (yay me!) and during the day of my big celebration I wrote...
The fabulous sober blogger Mr Sponsorpants wrote a post the other day called ‘Drop The Rock‘ and in it...
Member @freebreezi posted this in an update in the Members Feed last week and I was really struck by...
I had the good fortune to meet @Watergirl at my Drug Foundation talk and I can confirm she gives good...
I woke up this morning inexplicably happy to be sober! Just a big burst of happy endorphins and optimistic...
Before I ask how everyone is going resisting the pull to drink tonight, I want to feature this update that...
