On my sober birthday, I wanted to ask… As I turn six years sober on February 11, I’d love to ask you… What surprised you about getting sober? You can find my answer here. And since we ask this in the My Sobriety Story series, I’ve pulled from those responses below. You can find the full stories here. Whether…
“Don’t try to make your sobriety look like someone else’s.” This series showcases personal stories of addiction recovery and sobriety. Today’s edition features Sydney Allen, who has been sober since November 2022, when she realized alcohol no longer had a place in the life she wanted. Noticing a gap in support for people who stop drinking without…
Creating a vision board for the life you’re ready to live Growing up in a family of six children with a narcissistic mother/stepmother required that everyone play a role in her central story. As the bridge between sets of siblings, I was the physical and emotional connector. As such, my body and emotions were never…
“How do you want to live your new life?” This series showcases personal stories of addiction recovery and sobriety. Today’s edition features Kat Whetstone, a freelance writer who covers hockey, sobriety, and neurodivergence. She is the creator of Hockey in Heels, a blog devoted to covering all sides of the hockey world from a queer woman’s point…
A monthly roundup from the alcohol-free Substack community Welcome! This is our monthly roundup of reads and resources from the alcohol-free Substack community. How were your sober holidays? Super sweet? Glad they’re over? A mix of the two? If you got sober for Dry January, how’s that going? How are you feeling? Wherever you are…
A sober parent’s reflections on prevention, pressure, and choice I was fifteen when I first got drunk. It happened at my best friend’s house in late August. Her home was the kind of place that felt temporarily parentless even before her parents officially left town. Their absence gave the night an untethered energy. There was…
“What if sobriety was like a whole new substance in itself?” This series showcases personal stories of addiction recovery and sobriety. Today’s edition features Carly Schwartz, the author of the forthcoming memoir I’ll Try Anything Twice: Misadventures of a Self-Medicated Life, which will be released by She Writes Press in March. She’s the former editor-in-chief of the SF Examiner and…
“There is a before and after.” People overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in a decade. Mary Peeples is almost 500 days sober, and she’s just now understanding what that means. She’s a writer, former editor, theatre kid, and Southerner who writes about the small edits that compound over…
Since I know lots of people try out sobriety this time of year, I’d love to ask you a question… What was the turning point in your decision to get sober? We ask this in the My Sobriety Story series, so I’ve pulled from those responses below. Whether you’re staying sober for Dry January… sober curious…
“I had never seen so many people, especially men, openly sharing their feelings in one place. This was my tribe.” This series showcases personal stories of addiction recovery and sobriety. Today’s edition features Scott Cameron, a public interest lawyer and father of two young adult men who grew up in upstate New York and moved to…