Tips and tricks to get through the festive season with your sobriety and your sanity intact.
Tag Archive for: socialising
Sobriety offers nuanced experiences, not the hazy experiences that alcohol provides, where everything blends together.
This guest post comes from the lovely and very wise Suzy Morrison who works in the addiction sector and...
I've been to many parties as a sober person and generally I don't have a problem with them (unless...
I think a big part of the reason I've never picked up a drink since I made the decision...
That's our biggest fear when we quit drinking isn't it ... that other people are going to think we...
This is a re-post of a fabulous guest piece my friend @sueK wrote back in 2014. It is full...
One of the very hardest things for me in getting sober was the massive shift I had to do...
One of the biggest things we have to get used to when quitting alcohol is mixing with other people...
I knew after I stopped drinking that if I was going to be genuinely at peace with being sober,...
I go on a lot about brain-retraining in early sobriety... how we need to really embrace the reality of...
This 'Sober First Aid Kit' concept comes from my lovely friend @suek, and it's brilliant. She wrote this guest post...
Here’s how you go on holiday and don’t drink. 1) Go on holiday 2) Don’t drink And here are...
This guest post comes from member @emjaycee. A writer friend of mine (and sober hero!) based in Christchurch. ============...
This guest post comes from the always awesome Sue Kerr (@suek). Enjoy! ========== When you first quit drinking, you...
Someone asked me the other day if I missed drinking. I almost giggled at the absurdity of the question...
This guest post comes from the New Zealand author J.A. Wright (she was raised in the Pacific Northwest and...
A lot of our community are struggling this Silly Season feeling confronted by all the boozy get-togethers and family gatherings...
Lovely long-time member @morgan travelled to Wellington recently to attend a 21st party. She stayed at her elderly Aunt’s house...
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 my lovely friend Ali Ikram – a man who grew up in New Zealand...
I just celebrated my 1600th sober day! I probably wouldn’t bother counting days at this stage of my sobriety...
This guest post was written by the wise and lovely@suek after she hosted some friends for dinner recently. ============ @suek:...
Some more Christmas and New Years inspiration for you – this post comes from @_jjw_, a smart and lovely kiwi dude,...
Living Sober has just had it’s inaugural annual get-together! A community-led meet up of brave sober warriors in Wellington....
It’s definitely an extra layer of ‘hard’ for us sober people if we have to spend a lot of...
I was just chatting with a girlfriend about a wedding she’d been to on the weekend. It had been...
Some more Christmas and New Years inspiration for you – this post comes from @_jjw_, a smart and lovely kiwi dude,...
Christmas that is. It’s been coming at us like a runaway freight train … and now it’s here. Airports...
My darling friend @SueK had a tricky sober night out last weekend. Lucky for us she’s been able to brilliantly...
Oh wow everyone … how utterly incredible you all are for sharing those brutal truths. Really, really, really, really,...
We’re just people who don’t drink alcohol. I’ve just been hanging the bunting in the dining room for tonight’s...
I wrote that post this morning about our dinner party and then got in the shower and worried that people...
We’re hosting a big dinner party here on Saturday night. A 10th Anniversary Dinner Party Extravaganza! for our Antenatal...
I was asked on my Facebook page how I felt about boozy deserts like sherry trifle or crepes with orange...
