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Everything Is Happening For Me

January 15, 2025 | Admin

Embracing life’s challenges and finding strength in sobriety When we choose sobriety, our problems don’t suddenly disappear. Like any deep and genuine healing, a sober life often feels more painful and problematic before it starts to get easier—or at least it can seem that way. Since I let go of alcohol in 2020, I’ve faced…

The Relief of Grief

January 13, 2025 | Admin

How I use grief as a recovery tool A sober curious friend asked me the other day if there is any one thing I credit as being the thing that got me sober. My answer: grief. Grief scared me into drinking more. Drinking more made me scared of myself. Like many, for me 2020 was the year…

My Sobriety Story with Chris

January 8, 2025 | Admin

“Nearly all of my mental and physical self-diagnoses were just symptoms of drinking alcohol.” This series showcases personal stories of addiction recovery and sobriety. Today’s edition features Chris James, a 36-year-old debt adviser from England who works for a charity and is passionate about educating others on the dangers of alcohol. With a wonderful partner…

From Hell to Happiness: How Mindfulness Delivered Me From My Addiction

January 6, 2025 | Admin

When my alcoholism was at its peak, there was no functioning without it. After having witnessed some of the most tragic scenes humanity had to offer during my army service, my ability to function without chemical assistance was impossible. Trauma and substance abuse often go hand in hand, and my case was no exception. Truth…

Redefining Sobriety: Staying Steady & Ready for the Next Right Thing

December 16, 2024 | Admin

How to get back on track after a relapse or slip For Beth Recently, at the bakery, change has been afoot. New employees. New equipment. New business trends. These changes have paralleled my lived experience, especially in my journey towards sobriety, leading me to redefine what it means to be sober. One change in the…

Staying Sober in Community

December 11, 2024 | Admin

Meet sober writers and connect in the comments! Welcome! As part of celebrating and growing the Sober App Substack community, this periodic feature showcases recent guest contributors. Check out their bios and publications below, find their guest posts on the homepage, and share your own sober publication or say hello in the comments. Jo Christian (they/them) is a…

From Dying of Thirst to Flourishing in Sobriety

December 9, 2024 | Admin

Finding hope, healing, and renewal through the small but powerful lessons of everyday life. By: Michelle Neeling Note: I wrote this essay in response to a prompt during a writing workshop with Cheryl Strayed in October 2022. For a long time, I kept it close to my chest, unsure if it would be of any interest…

Reclaiming Fun & Rediscovering Joy in Sobriety

December 3, 2024 | Admin

How Adele’s “I Drink Wine” helped me unearth my inner child and embrace life without alcohol In the third verse of “I Drink Wine,” Adele confides: “When I was a child, every single thing could blow my mind, soaking it all up for fun, but now I only soak up wine.” This line triggered something…

My Sobriety Story with Randal

December 1, 2024 | Admin

From making music in LA to practicing holistic medicine This series showcases personal stories of addiction recovery and sobriety. Today’s edition features Randal Lyons, a Doctor of Chinese Medicine and shamanic practitioner whose spiritual, integrative program of addiction recovery has been implemented in holistic clinics, premier treatment centers, and his private practice. You can access the online…

What Advice Would You Give Someone Starting Their Sobriety Journey?

November 26, 2024 | Admin

Tips, encouragement, and inspiration from our community! “What advice would you give someone who’s considering sobriety or is newly sober?” We ask this as part of the My Sobriety Story series, and I recently posed the same question on Notes (Substack’s social media platform, for those unfamiliar). The responses included practical tips, encouragement, inspiration, and heartfelt reminders…