This is why I love Elena Brower so fiercely. This particular meditation helped me when I was working so hard on self-love as a launching pad to my sobriety -- and it felt like nobody could understand me (and much less put it in words). I had drowned my ability to feel for so long, … Continue reading The Ritual of Recovery
As some of you may know, I had 5 years of solid sobriety starting on 2009. However, in 2014 I drank again. My relapse lasted a very long time. A long 2+ years, in fact. As difficult as it was to be stuck in those 700+ days of hell, now I know that every day … Continue reading 700 days of Relapse
Happy to share a practical post written by fellow recovery warrior, Luke Pool. He requested to share this on Sober Mami as a valuable insight to the basics of early recovery. Enjoy! ************************************************************************************* It’s often said that the real work begins after completing a treatment program. The reason this is said is because it’s much … Continue reading Guest Post: 5 Healthy Ways of Dealing with Stress in Early Recovery
My Sober Sister, Frances Stone, wrote a brilliant piece on Finding your Rhythm on Recovery and I wanted to share it with you. Enjoy! FINDING YOUR RHYTHM ON RECOVERY "I'll be honest, I know nothing about the mechanics of music, but I do know a fair bit about changing your life. Changing your life requires you … Continue reading Guest Post: Ms. Recovery Writes
Today is a bittersweet day. It is Father's Day. And while I am so very grateful to have a living father, he is in a different country, and I can't do much other than make a phone-call. I thank him for all he did right, and I honor him for all he did wrong. It's … Continue reading Cooked Out ::
Today I am re-blogging one of my FAVORITE entries from Glennon´s 2011 archives. I remember reading this for the first time and bawling. It was amazing that somebody out there "got me". Alcohol broke my heart every night and every morning I wanted to leave it... and couldn't. And the next night, alcohol would break … Continue reading Recovery, by Glennon M. Doyle
Today I beat my drinking demon to a pulp. I fought my illness good and hard on the wrestling mat. It was a terrifying match. I finished bloody, messy and exhausted...but I won. Against all odds, I won. What this means is that in the middle of an otherwise ordinary workday, smack in the middle of solid months … Continue reading The Deep Craving Episode (or how I beat my Drinking Demon, instead of relapsing again)
Current reality: Life is a little shitty and somehow, I survive + my sobriety grows muscle. *I am getting divorced. - This week I am in the very last leg of my divorce. My second divorce, mind you. And while every ounce of my brain tells me that this is a VERY good thing - my … Continue reading This is why I need my Program
I was a witness to greatness last Friday night in NYC. Greatness, all rolled-up in a 5-foot uber-petite frame. Greatness in high heels, sassy blond hair and black leather pants. Glennon Doyle-Melton is greatness. And badassness. And raw-truthness (yes, I make up words, live with it). Glennon looks like a suburban mom (and frankly has a hotness … Continue reading Addiction = Running from pain (and love)
The She Recovers NYC weekend came and went like a loud storm and a soft whisper. It danced through me, sometimes slamming messages of "elevated consciousness" that were loud and boisterous; and sometimes delivering whispered jewels of truth which felt were made just for me. I am struggling with what to say; I am overwhelmed in a way … Continue reading SHE RECOVERS, New York 2017
