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Breaking the Glass Slipper – My Jealousy of Slips at 6 Months Sober
The first year of sobriety can be slippery, regardless of how committed you are to not drinking. It doesn’t matter if you attend AA or Smart Recovery meetings, if you’re paying a sobriety coach, or participating in an online community. Slips happen everywhere. There is no perfect program that magically removes the possibility of drinking…
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The Only Way Out is Through – Perspective from 7 Months Sober
I’m 7 months sober today and I was thinking about any wisdom I could pass on to those trying to stop drinking or those who are alcohol-free already but in early days. To be honest, what comes to mind, is really just about doing the work. No one wants to go through a tunnel of…
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Musings from 200 Days Sober
It strikes me that my first 100 days sober were a sort of phase 1. What can I say about those hundred days now, looking back? Were they ok? Brutal? Easy? Hard? Wonderful? Painful? Blurry? I suppose the answer is: ALL OF THE ABOVE. For the first sober month or so I did nothing but…
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Learning to Meditate – Transcendental Meditation, Awareness and Emotional Regulation
A lot of us try to meditate and feel we fail or don’t get it. We try to meditate and don’t feel the benefit and it’s frustrating and boring to bother having another go. That was and is still is me much of the time. I have a busy impatient brain that is hard to…