Category: How I Stopped Drinking

  • How to Recover from Relapse, Slips and Slides when you go Sober

    How to Recover from Relapse, Slips and Slides when you go Sober

    Two years of sobriety allowed me to become everything for myself that I had spent my whole life searching for in everyone else. And yet I slipped and slid away from that precious sobriety. The first time I got very serious and declared my sobriety, I dove head first into quit lit. I scoured the…

  • Surrender

    Surrender

    I want to be healthy, calm, content, and grounded. I want to flow through life with clarity, purpose and integrity. I want to treat my body with respect and kindness. I want to be fully present for myself and my loved ones. I want to be free. But then I drink. The alcohol buries all…

  • The Mask

    The Mask

    All she’s ever known. Because all she’s ever known is poisoning her body and her mind, in some way, for as long as she can remember…. So now calm feels scary,and peace too unfamiliar,and happiness too fleeting,and so….The self sabotage begins well before the new changes can become habit. Because the pain feels like home,the…

  • How to Stay Sober in the Restaurant Industry

    How to Stay Sober in the Restaurant Industry

    Breaking Free: Sobriety and the Restaurant Industry Have you ever talked to an individual who has made a career out of restaurant work? I’m sure they all say the same thing; once you’re IN the industry, there’s no way out. It drags you in and keeps you wrapped tightly within its grip. The lows are…