Tag: Community-support-for-alternative-recovery

  • How do You Stop Drinking and Stay Sober with a Partner Who Drinks?

    How do You Stop Drinking and Stay Sober with a Partner Who Drinks?

    When I stopped drinking over five years ago, there was not much in the blogs and books that I was reading that addressed how to stop drinking if your partner continued to drink. There was mention of living sober with a normy, meaning someone who could drink moderately. But, I could not find any points…

  • The Key is Endurance

    The Key is Endurance

    Every time you stop, you learn a little more about what sober is. So tonight I stopped in at a local grocery store to get a few things. It’s the freestanding kind that has a liquor store in it. The thought of going in to buy alcohol didn’t cross my mind, any more than walking…

  • How to get From Here to There

    How to get From Here to There

    I’ve been pondering the question of how to get from here to there…..here of course being addicted to alcohol and there being free from alcohol. This is a very different thing to ‘not drinking’. Not drinking is very hard work! It assumes that drinking is desirable but for some reason, we aren’t very good at…

  • Staying Sober when Pink Becomes Grey

    Staying Sober when Pink Becomes Grey

    About the malaise phase, or as it can be more succinctly described, “Meh.” When I first got sober with AA, I took an air balloon ride above EVERYTHING. I was suddenly FREE of daily drinking, over-drinking, hating myself, waking every morning staring into the Face of Regret, breaking daily promises to myself, degrading absolutely every…

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