Today was a bad day. I couldn’t escape active addiction. I tried, but it was everywhere. I am not talking about my own. By the grace of God I haven’t picked up in 2 years, but when you actively participate in your recovery and are involved in service work in [...]
It’s everyone’s favorite time of year and it only happens every four years. That’s right, it’s election season! Actually, it’s been election season for over a year now. You’re probably sick and tired of seeing all the ads on TV and social media being inundated with the latest ridiculous comment [...]
Dear Mom and Dad, Words can’t begin to describe how sorry I am. I’ve put you in a position that no parent should ever face. I left – before you. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The natural order of things was skewed by my addiction. I can only [...]
I lived in a Sober Living Home (or SLH) for nearly three years, first as a client and then as a manager for over two years. I quickly learned how important an SLH can be to sobriety. I also saw how it can help you change your life. Because of [...]
The second time I really, truly tried to get clean, it was the soggy, cold spring of 2004. It was finals at school — the perfect time to go completely batshit — and I’d been up to no good. Despite my best efforts, I was back to my daily eight-ball [...]
This past Saturday, I woke up with anticipation, a reason to celebrate. For the first time in over twenty years of life, I had a year clean. It was a year of dedication to the program that provided more knowledge and growth than the countless methods in the past and [...]
You would think that after struggling for seven years trying to find help for my addicted son, Matt, that nothing would ever be able to rock me again. How foolish I was to think that finding help would have gotten easier. We have all these new websites promising avenues for [...]
I regularly receive messages from people asking me how I quit drinking and how I continue to stay sober. It’s a tough question for me to answer honestly. To be honest, I don’t think I would recommend “my” way. Because the truth is, I lied. I lied my way to [...]
Fear drives all post-trauma related behaviors; healing focuses on resolving the fear. -MICHELE ROSENTHAL ESCAPE I used to live my life just to escape it. I felt a driving force to be someone other than who I thought I was. As I reflect back, I realize now that I didn’t [...]
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was [...]
