By @suek Sleep is my number one self care priority at the moment. Over the years, I have realised...
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A lot of the time I'm just chugging on in my sober life feeling fair-to-middling. Worrying about my studies,...
Let's talk about 'the voice'. No, not the TV show - the one in your head trying to convince...
We are so fortunate in today's world that we can do all manner of research, investigation and exploration from...
Someone wrote in the Members Feed recently; "this sober lark is just the best thing ever". These sorts of...
5 o'clock was bloody hard for me in the early days of getting sober. Very bloody hard. Because this...
Visualisation was a really powerful tool for me early on. It was one of my main strategies for dealing with...
Cravings are arseholes. They hit and they can be so powerful and they suck. Often they come on the...
When I first quit drinking there were two main new habits (or tools) that I embraced early on to...
This guest post was written by member @sunshinestace. She actually wrote it as an update in the Members Feed,...
This 'Sober First Aid Kit' concept comes from my lovely friend @suek, and it's brilliant. She wrote this guest post...
These are some of the things that I do to ‘work’ at my recovery, the things that keep me...
One of the things that is so hard about being addicted to alcohol is that much of the angst...
Getting sober and living sober are two very different things. One is a short(ish) term project that is hard work...
One of our very brave and amazing community members @wvlheel has just celebrated his one year soberversary – yay!...
Boy I did use to put a lot of effort into being a booze-pig. So much time and energy spent...
I have a sneaky suspicion that there are people who visit Living Sober to read blogs and look in...
This guest post comes from the always awesome Sue Kerr (@suek). Enjoy! ========== When you first quit drinking, you...
A year or so ago I took part in a free online Mindfulness Summit which was amazing! I felt like I was...
The end of the year can be a particularly tricky time for us sober people. Lots of financial pressures, social events to...
The Cutting Edge addiction conference is fast approaching! This is a 3-day event run by Dapaanz who are New...
This guest post comes from Jay, the Community Outreach Director at One Mind Dharma. ========== On March 20th of...
Once again here I am going on about brain re-training. It is VITAL! It is CRUCIAL! It is HUGELY...
We talk about self-care a lot here at Living Sober. It’s so ridiculously important. Right now for me it’s the...
Alcohol is such a tricky drug. On the surface it appears to help us deal with things by relaxing us...
Some more Christmas and New Years inspiration for you – this post comes from @_jjw_, a smart and lovely kiwi dude,...
This post follows on from @suek’s last guest post ‘When Sober Gets Old‘. Here she offers some fantastic practical...
This guest post comes from my dear friend @suek. She writes brilliantly and is always full of such wisdom and...
We are very fortunate that the lovely @suek has written another exceptional guest post for us. Sue’s writing ability...
It’s definitely an extra layer of ‘hard’ for us sober people if we have to spend a lot of...
It’s hard sometimes to convince other people that we have a problem with booze. They might see us have...
One of our fabulous members @PJNT has made it to over 160 days sober (whoop!), although she says she’s...
Beloved member @prudence wrote this marvelously stirring and inspirational update in the Members Feed the other day and I thought it was...
My darling friend @suek is gearing up to move to the other side of the world. I recently asked...
The fabulous sober blogger Mr Sponsorpants wrote a post the other day called ‘Drop The Rock‘ and in it...
Some more Christmas and New Years inspiration for you – this post comes from @_jjw_, a smart and lovely kiwi dude,...
Oh how scornful I used to be about naval gazing! “Naval gazing is for sissies” (I’d say). “People who always...
