It's hard sometimes to convince other people that we have a problem with booze. They might see us have...
Tag Archive for: honesty
I am about to celebrate 11 years of sobriety (yay me!) and just yesterday I wrote in the Members...
Sometimes my recovery is extremely ugly. Sometimes my recovery involves tears, yelling, feeling low or inadequate, self-destructive thoughts, grumpiness, a...
This guest post was written as an update in the Members Feed by member @dirb, and I thought it...
It's such a loaded word 'boundaries'. People say it with such gravitas sometimes. 'Know your boundaries' they might say...
This guest post comes from Mark Goodson, author of the blog 'The Miracle of the Mundane" (great title, great...
Someone suggested that I write a letter to my past addicted self. So I did and you can see...
I was watching a movie the other day and it showed a woman having a flashback to her childhood where...
I'm not sure that you can just stop drinking alcohol and make no other changes or do no other...
This week's Sober Story comes from Stacy, a 48-year-old living in San Antonio, Texas. =========== Mrs D: How long...
Sometimes I worry that I'm repeating myself with all the writing that I do on addiction and recovery. I've...
When I first quit alcohol it felt like I was standing on the edge of a cliff staring into...
This guest post was written by member @sunshinestace. She actually wrote it as an update in the Members Feed,...
This week's Sober Story comes from Daniel, a 54-year-old living in London, UK. Mrs D: How long have you...
Ok that was SUPER fun!! Loved that 'Bullshit' game in the last post and thanks everyone for playing. You...
"You'll never have fun at a party again if you stop drinking." That is BULLSHIT! A party is fun...
One of the things that is so hard about being addicted to alcohol is that much of the angst...
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 our lovely long-time member @mrwtf. ============== “The difficulty lies not so much in developing...
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...
One of our very brave and amazing community members @wvlheel has just celebrated his one year soberversary – yay!...
Someone asked me the other day if I missed drinking. I almost giggled at the absurdity of the question...
This guest post comes from beloved community member @inthegarage66 (known by his shortened nickname as @itg). For a while...
This guest post comes from Katrina Tanirau, a journalist living in Matamata. She reached out to me via Facebook offering...
We are very fortunate that the lovely @suek has written another insightful guest post for us. I always...
I think we need to accept that there is a certain amount of grief that goes with getting sober....
Well this is exciting! Finally I get to publish the results of the Members Survey that we ran over...
Today is day 1630 of sobriety for me and this is proving an interesting time for me right now… The...
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...
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...
Today marks one year since my big TV ‘outing’ as an alcoholic in recovery. It was a huge scary...
Some of you may remember that my dear friend (and long-time member of this site) @suek has recently been...
One of the lovely members of this site @behind-the-sofa recently celebrated 1 year of living alcohol-free (woo hoo!!). He...
I got the idea for this post from member @citygirl. She wrote a fabulous update in the Members Feed...
Member @maryisnotafairy posted this in the Sober Toolbox recently and I thought it was bloody brilliant so am featuring it...
One of our wonderful members @hilux is a dab hand with poetry – he often writes his updates and...
I’m having an emotional couple of days. I was a bit shaky yesterday, cried at Yoga last night –...
My big turning point – the point where I stopped drinking and got sober – came the morning after...
