Category: Sober Stories

  • Sobriety is Never Owned, it’s Rented – Escaping the Pitcher Plant

    Sobriety is Never Owned, it’s Rented – Escaping the Pitcher Plant

    I am 77 Years old and have been consuming alcohol for some 60 odd years, over this period in many occupations and circumstances I have been – not realising it – slowly but surely – sliding down the throat of a Pitcher plant. Just like a fly, the further down the throat you slide, the […]

  • It’s Never too Late

    It’s Never too Late

    I worked for 45 years to save for a comfy retirement. Work, work, work… it’s pretty much all I did for 5/7ths of my week apart from travel for 4 hours a day to and from my home to my clients. I was mostly satisfied with the life I’d chosen. My father instilled in me […]

  • I am an Anarchist

    I am an Anarchist

    ” Individualistic Anarchism emphasises the individual and their will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems “ I have a friend who works with a passion from Monday to Friday. Saturday morning for him is reserved exclusively for completing the weekly shopping. Religiously. I was surprised to receive an MMS of […]

  • How I became and remain a motivated and Sober Parent

    How I became and remain a motivated and Sober Parent

    As I muddled through my mid forties it seemed that the way I dealt with every emotion was to get hammered. I was haunted that I was setting my young son Joseph up for a life battling addiction simply by the example I set. At the same time, I noticed that my mental abilities were […]

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