Early sobriety. If your story is anything like mine, it was anything but easy. The emotional roller coaster, combined with plowing through the massive pile of wreckage that I had created, made my first year extremely challenging. Based on my personal experience, and what I have learned from others, there are five things that can [...]
Recovery. Recovered. In Recovery. Sober. All words used to describe those of us who have escaped the grip that our addiction had on us for so long. For most of us, it's not just a word or simply an adjective. It's a verb. A way of life that encompasses so many things beyond simply abstaining [...]
"If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependence and its consequent demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling demands. Then we can be set free to live and love: we may then be able to gain emotional sobriety. " [...]
Whew! It's been awhile since I have written! The last two months have been insanely busy, and I've spent a lot of time over the last few days wondering what it is that I could even write about. It's the end of the year. And while I don't have any "new year, new me" speeches [...]
More than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017. 72,000. You would think that with the level that the opioid crisis has reached in recent years, most of the public would have some basic understanding of addiction by now. But you'd be wrong. One evening, I'm scrolling through my Facebook feed and stumble upon [...]
When we enter our journey into sobriety, all of us have a different relationship status. Some of us might be married, some in a committed relationship, and some of us might be single. No matter what your relationship status is when you decide to get sober, romantic relationships can be complicated. I get asked all [...]
I've been putting off writing this blog for a while because as much as it's something that needs to be talked about, it's just uncomfortable. But you know what? It doesn't need to be. And the only way that we can help people is by being honest about what's really going on in parts of [...]
