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No Amount of Alcohol is Safe to Drink if You’re Pregnant
No I’m not pregnant! Haha, but I do know several people who are. I recently watched a documentary sent to me by a reader called Moment to Moment: Teens Growing Up With FASDs [Fetal Alcohol Spectrum...
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Everything You Need To Know About Sober Travel
Me in Miami Beach 2 weeks ago I really can’t believe I haven’t written a specific post about this before. Most of you know that traveling is one of my favorite things and it’s 1000% better now that I’m...
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The Anatomy of a Blackout
Me 100% blacked out on my 23rd birthday If you haven’t heard of the book, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank To Forget by Sarah Hepola yet, you’ve most likely been living under a rock. She has...
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The 4 Stages Of Early Sobriety
This is me at exactly 1 month sober. It was my 28th birthday. Lately I’ve been receiving a ton of messages and emails from my readers about early sobriety. I realize that many of us contemplate...
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Recovery Messaging Training With Young People In Recovery
I talk a lot about recovering out loud, breaking the stigma of addiction, and telling your story. But I’ve never really considered how my rhetoric can affect the public’s perception of this disease...
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7 Things I Learned At My First ICYPAA
Do you ever feel like you were just destined to be friends with someone? You meet and it’s not weird at all. It’s like you’ve known each other for years. It’s a rare quality in a friendship and I got...
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What Recovery Month Means To Me
It’s that time again – Recovery Month! This is the second Recovery Month that I’m celebrating (only because I didn’t know about it in September 2013.) I feel different during this year’s recovery...
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Why I’m Going To Unite To Face Addiction On October 4
I’m sure you’ve seen me posting, tweeting, or talking about this event by now. If you haven’t yet, I’ll explain everything below. I’m going to be in Washington D.C. on October 4 uniting to face...
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Why Storytelling Is The LifeBlood Of Recovery – Book Download
What is it about stories that make us feel alive? It’s not just in the recovery community; stories are all the rage in marketing and advertising too. It’s the human condition – we yearn for someone to...
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The Hardest Parts About Being Sober
I talk sobriety up on here. That’s because 99.9% of the time it’s amazing and it has definitely transformed my life. I want more people to know how great it is so they can try it themselves. But I...
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Why It’s So Hard To Ask For Help With An Addiction
This picture is me in 2009 a week after I broke and dislocated my elbow while in a blackout on Halloween. I was still partying and drinking even with my injury. The question I am most often asked on...
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Your Worst Sobriety Fears [Explained In Halloween Gifs]
It’s that time of the year again! The time when all the ghosts and goblins come out, and people take joy in hiding behind their masks. For those of us who deal with substance abuse disorder, it’s not...
View Article13th Step Jokes Aren’t Funny
I hate to be a buzzkill, but 13th step jokes aren’t funny. The whole 13th step concept is weird, shameful, and tragic. I’ve always been the person who doesn’t think racist jokes are funny, or rape...
View ArticleThe Only Way To Deal With Pain Is To Go Through It
Have you ever had one of those days when everything seems to be going wrong and you just feel like you can’t get out of your funk? It doesn’t take much for me to get into that mindset of “why me?” and...
View ArticleDon’t Drink And Drive, Ever
With the holidays coming up I wanted to touch on an important topic: drinking and driving. I think it becomes a more common occurrence during the holidays when people are attending more parties and...
View ArticleHow To Deal With People Who Aren’t Supportive Of Your Sobriety
I got sober and now everyone should be happy. Look at me, I’m awesome. This shit is hard and I deserve support. Sound familiar? I think we have all gone through this stage at some point in our...
View ArticleWhere’s Your Human Compassion?
In writing this post I have to say I’ve been feeling a little distraught lately, a little disappointed in humanity. It’s nothing new that the world is filled with tragedy and as always, I follow the...
View ArticleGifts Of Sobriety: My Engagement
I’m ENGAGED! It’s still SO weird to say those words out loud. Last Sunday, December 13, 2015 – my partner of 3.5 years who I’ve written about many times, asked me to marry him! I was 100% completely...
View ArticleI Loved The Holidays For All The Wrong Reasons, Then I Got Sober
Growing up, and until a little over 2 years ago, Christmas to me meant: money, gifts, free stuff, and reasons to drink. For me the holidays were about myself and greed. I looked forward to nights out...
View Article7 Realistic Resolutions For The New Year
I cannot believe 2015 is basically over! This year flew by. Here we are on another 31st of the year, thinking about what the next year will bring. They tell you when you get sober that “you will live a...
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