Its not easy when you’re feeling so down on yourself – seems like there’s nothing you can do to boost your spirits up. So alone. So sober. Thats how I’ve been feeling for awhile now + I just can’t seem to shake it. This weekend was definitely the hardest + it feels like it’s just going […]
https://hopeandbalance.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/their-happy-is-too-loud/
When I was a kid, I thought everybody’s dad lived in a different house. I thought it was normal getting picked up every other weekend, staying up late watching the movies your mother didn’t allow you to watch, and then going back home in the morning. I didn’t think it was strange that my dad’s […]
https://immolating.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/day-one-recovering/
At the very end of every OD everything stops. All the thoughts buzzing through your head are suddenly quite. All of your self abuse dissipates. No person or drug has control over your life any more. Everything stops. Your heart no longer beats. Your lungs no longer oxygenate your blood. The brain starves, and then […]
I can sense in myself that this is it; game over; I can’t explain why, but I finally feel finished this time, with “feel” being the keyword as well as the most frightening one in my vocabulary – but King Alcohol has beaten the living shit out of me, stolen everything, and left me overwhelmingly […]
http://fromashesiriserecovery.com/2016/03/07/chris-reservation-for-one/
I wish I could say that the road to recovery was much easier and quicker than it truly is. Were I to say that, I would be lying not only to you, but also myself, addiction doesn’t happen overnight and neither do its solutions. If you are addicted, you already know this. What I desire to do […]
https://chroniclesofarecoveringaddict.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/fight-on/
6 March 2016 Part of the reason I got sober was for self-improvement and to live a healthier lifestyle. I’ve been sober for over two months and I have hit a point in this new chapter of my life where I get bored really easily and have yet to find an outlet to put my […]
https://brandonbenz.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/ch-47-digital-detox/
My journey to sobriety. “My name is Brittney and I’m an alcoholic.” I stood and said that sentence for the first time almost two years ago. I definitely didn’t believe that at the time, but I said it anyway. I was about 2,000 miles away from home when I walked into my first AA meeting. […]
https://blackoutbrit.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/it-isnt-easy-but-it-is-worth-it/
Indeedles, as my oldest son says. I’m used to drinking dreams by this point; they don’t even rattle me. I wake up, yawn and stretch, and think, Well, that was another drinking dream. And then I get up and go about my day. Drinking dreams used to scare the bejebus out of me, and sometimes I […]
https://recovery102.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/a-drinking-dream-in-which-i-didnt-drink/
When it first got sober I was told, by the staff facilitating my recovery program, that I would quickly replace the activity of and the pleasure I received from drinking and drugging with something else. They went on to say that sometimes people replace one addiction with another. Sometimes people replace one unhealthy activity with […]
https://acatharticrelease.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/in-the-name-of-healing-cheesburgers/
Have you ever been in a bad mood? A good mood? What is a mood, anyway? How can it be bad or good? Well, let’s take a trip through ‘mood alteration’. Wikipedia defines a mood as being an emotional state. Moods differ from emotions, feelings, or affects in that they are less specific, less intense, […]
https://helpingaddictsblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/mood-alteration/
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