Interview with a 56-Year-Old Sober Person: Nadia Bolz-Weber
What are the biggest benefits or gifts of sobriety?
The greatest benefit, to me, is the ability to handle adversity and joy with the same heart. To know that despair and bliss are feelings and not states of being, and that my feelings won’t make me or break me. The greatest gifts have been my spiritual life and having true relationships
The greatest benefit, to me, is the ability to handle adversity and joy with the same heart. To know that despair and bliss are feelings and not states of being, and that my feelings won’t make me or break me. The greatest gifts have been my spiritual life and having true relationships
C.L. Steiner • My Sobriety Story With C.L.: “Giving Up Was the Key.”
I thought getting sober would feel like a punishment. Instead, I feel like I’ve been given an opportunity to live a meaningful, intentional life—like my world cracked wide open.
Kristen Blanton Crocker • My Sobriety Story With Kristen Blanton Crocker
Reflections on sobriety, moderation, and Anthony DeMello’s idea that strict renunciation can paradoxically bind you to desire.
TRANSCRIPT
But I will say that I almost made it to seven months, but then I just decided my original goal was three months, then I made it to six. and was I going to continue to go on like this? And I had hung out with some friends. We had a dinner in San Francisco and I thought, you know, I'm going to have a glass of vino. I just going to have a glass
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