Interview With a 60-Year-Old Sober Person: Chris Wells
sobriety is about freeing yourself from any behavior, relationship, or way of thinking that enslaves you and keeps you from being present to life.
Laura McKowen • We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
the thing I did that seemed completely impossible at the start was this: I started to live my own life, the one that was meant for me.
I stopped listening to what other people said, I stopped listening to what I imagined people were saying. I stopped listening to the nonsense I said. I started listening to my heart. I stopped pretending and started... See more
I stopped listening to what other people said, I stopped listening to what I imagined people were saying. I stopped listening to the nonsense I said. I started listening to my heart. I stopped pretending and started... See more
substack.com • Chinese Food, Serenity and Five Years of Sobriety
“Don’t stop now, let the healing in. Be merciful, be attentive.” It was the beginning of my learning about love at a deeper level, in an area that went beyond the “me” that had demanded protection for so long and hated itself for doing so. It was what some might call a “healing crisis”—a peaking of the painful symptoms inherent in the clear seeing
... See moreStephen Levine • Healing into Life and Death
But in that moment where I realized there was literally nothing I could do, everything changed. All of a sudden, my view of everything shifted. Almost like flipping over a card or a coin, everything that I ever thought or felt, everything that I could remember, everything in that moment literally disappeared. I was finally alone. And in this alonen
... See moreAdyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
Many people have told me that when they finally are able to see how long their life has been imprisoned by self-hatred and shame, they feel not only grief but also a sense of life-giving hope.