HAVE TRAUMA, WILL NUMB.
Maintaining sobriety is a process, sometimes a long and arduous one, but worth every difficult moment. From those difficulties, we can grow, and we will thrive. We meet Tracie, author of The Truth of Being Us.
200 DAYS SOBER. BY CLAIRE.
Recovery is a very personal thing. What works for one person, can be very different from the next. That much we know. But…
CHANGING MY MINDSET ON ALCOHOL.
To be quite honest I thought it would be a bit shit. But I accepted, completely and totally, for the first time that I was incapable, 100%, no arguments, totally and utterly incapable of drinking ‘normally’.
HEY LITTLE GIRL. BY MEGAN.
Hello again. If it’s okay… I’d like you all to meet somebody. Everyone, this is Megan. I stumbled across Megan on Twitter recently,…
MY DAD AND ME. BY SIMON.
My Dad and Me. By Simon Measures. My Dad, Eddy, was an addict. Just like me. Unlike me, he never found a…
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE DRINK.
Being in recovery gives us a great deal of time to reflect. Making sense of a myriad of jumbled memories becomes par for…
1000 DAYS ALCOHOL FREE.
OK. My choice of featured image for this post: the numbers on a running track. Go figure… It’s obvious, isn’t it? Maybe not.…
PANTS, PIMMS & POSH PEOPLE.
Phew. The Football Thing and The Tennis Thing have come to a close. Just, phew. Now, I know not all of you…
THE SOBER ANGEL (3/3): JOANNE
And finally… Well, those three days seemed to fly past – despite endless hours travelling around Leeds in this heat! But one…
LOVE SOBER (2/3): KATE & MANDY
Seconds away, round two… The eagle-eyed amongst you will soon spot that in our previous ‘’She Recovers” post I stated that the series…
RECOVER & RISE (1/3): TIFFANY
They say that good things come in threes, right? Well I certainly hope so, or my headline writing days are over! Today…
100 DAYS OF SOBER PAINTING
Do you do something every day as part of your recovery? Maybe you meditate, practice mindfulness, play video games or simply read a…
THE SILENCE OF THE DRINKERS.
We’ve been cruising the Instagram highway for a couple of months… indeed, this lil old website is nearly two months old. Wow! (Cue…
THE JOY OF SOBRIETY.
We are all escapees from the slavery of addiction, Lager, wines and spirits our previous predilection. Forgive us when our words stray into…
