My Sobriety Story With Kristen Blanton Crocker
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
sobriety offers us everything alcohol promised—we’re setting up a very different narrative.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
There’s something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia, that disabuses you of the belief in externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth a
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Sobriety has been about finding my true self and identifying the false narratives, and then laughing at the ridiculous grandiosity and general overblown-ness of my fears and feelings.
False Narratives and Peanut Butter
“Sobriety, if it is anything, is paying attention, seeing the wonder and the beauty around us that we so easily sprint by on our way to the next thing. And this is more than fun; this is actually living.”