Guest Post: Ms. Recovery Writes

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 …

Recovery, by Glennon M. Doyle

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 …

The Deep Craving Episode (or how I beat my Drinking Demon, instead of relapsing again)

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 …

This is why I need my Program

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 …

Addiction = Running from pain (and love)

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 …

The Cycle of Shame in Addiction

“I relapsed, had a slip and drank for days. I hate myself right now. I know I have an illness but I can not go on living with this person I have become. I have no respect for myself. I am full of self-loathing. I want to be able to look in the mirror and …

The Open Secret of our Addiction

Note: This is a transcript from the book Broken Open - How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, by Elizabeth Lesser.  I normally write my heart/brain out in these posts, but this is too good not to share directly from the pages if this fabulous read. "Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment …