Republishing this powerful post. ======== Welcome to a very special day - the first day of the rest of...
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I think a big part of the reason I've never picked up a drink since I made the decision...
I love that most nights I sleep very deeply for many hours. Such a change from when I had...
Negative emotions suck and cause discomfort, but sitting with them and feeling them 100% in the raw helps immensley...
I love our Living Sober community. I just love it. There is so much warmth and kindness going on in...
Make no bones about it. This is what getting sober is all about. When you quit drinking and commit...
(This is a post from 2018 that is worth republishing because of the powerful message it contains for some...
Sober Hindsight is one of my favorite things about living alcohol-free. Sober Hindsight is something you only really experience when...
I was watching a movie the other day and it showed a woman having a flashback to her childhood where...
I think one thing that really helps in early sobriety is to bring a healthy level of curious, upbeat...
That's where most of my boozing went on in the latter years. Behind closed doors, in my house, on...
I can tell you that change is possible. I can tell you the story of how I turned my...
A member here once wrote a powerful update about the crap day she'd had the day before. She'd managed...
Sometimes I worry that I'm repeating myself with all the writing that I do on addiction and recovery. I've...
....but the problem is, if you let yourself down often enough, break promises you've made to yourself constantly and often...
I love being sober because I never have to waste any emotional energy worrying about how much booze I...
Boy do I love this!! JOMO = Joy Of Missing Out. It comes from the Australian artist and cartoonist...
When I first quit alcohol it felt like I was standing on the edge of a cliff staring into...
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...
That's how I think of early sobriety. You've jumped off the Boozy Cliff into a ginormous field of Thick Sludgy Mud...
"You'll never have fun at a party again if you stop drinking." That is BULLSHIT! A party is fun...
Boy does life change when we quit drinking and are no longer subject to the impacts of artificially altering our...
Whether you are newly sober right now or have been living without alcohol for some months (or years) you deserve a...
… that is the question. This topic bubbles around recovery communties constantly. Do you count your sober days? Some of us...
At the end of my drinking days I was a miserable booze-soaked wreck. I had so much wine coursing...
I got caught underage drinking when I was sixteen. I was in a pub in Sumner near Christchurch (called...
I’m not usually a huge one for New Year’s resolutions because I don’t want to feel useless when I don’t...
This guest post comes from Katrina Tanirau, a journalist living in Matamata. She reached out to me via Facebook offering...
Getting sober is hard work – it is! Anyone who says otherwise is either lucky or lying. Of course...
If anyone is reading this post and hasn’t yet registered to become a member here at Living Sober and...
We talk about self-care a lot here at Living Sober. It’s so ridiculously important. Right now for me it’s the...
This guest post was written by the wise and lovely@suek after she hosted some friends for dinner recently. ============ @suek:...
The Silly Season is fast approaching and already there are rumblings in the Members Feed about what a difficult...
I don’t think I was very resilient when I first got sober. My emotional coping mechanisms weren’t well formed...
A member posted this question in the Members Feed the other day… “I need some wise advice. So how do...
One of our wonderful members @mac007 (who I have had the pleasure of meeting twice!) has just travelled away...
Some of you may remember that my dear friend (and long-time member of this site) @suek has recently been...
It’s the million dollar question isn’t it? When does living sober become the new norm? When does sober become ordinary?...
Member @AEG wrote this in the Members Feed the other day. I thought it was just such a lovely...
There’s a lovely man who goes by the member name @behind-the-sofa here at Living Sober and also leaves comments...
This is my first attempt at making a video in iMovie! It it rough as guts but it is...
I think I’m getting better at this sober living malarkey. The longer I live with no alcohol in my...
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...
I LOVE them. I just love them.. and I cling on to their stories for dear life. Somehow for...
I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by a journalist writing an article on online recovery. She sent me...
We’re just people who don’t drink alcohol. I’ve just been hanging the bunting in the dining room for tonight’s...
