Celebrating all paths to getting and staying alcohol-free!
Welcome! Each week this Sober October, we’re sharing a link-up featuring supportive reads and resources from the alcohol-free Substack community.
Find the first link-up here, the second here, the third here, and scroll down for this week’s edition.
We’d love to hear from you too! Share your favorite alcohol-free writers and resources in the comments, and if you’re sober, feel free to include a link to your own publication or website. We celebrate and welcome all paths to getting and staying alcohol-free!
New or curious?
- Lessons from a Croissant on Being Bored in Sobriety, Sydney Allen
- Step One (check out this entire series!), Taishin Michael Augustin
- Don’t f**k with my routine, Tacita B
- Uncoupling from Alcohol, Julie Fontes
- What I wish I’d known before I went alcohol-free (part two), The Glow Guide by Jen
- Do you want to drink or does ‘something in you’ want to drink? Ellie Nova
- Why Thinking About Quitting Drinking Is Miserable, Samantha Perkins
- What Happens When You Take Away That One Thing? Josh Woll
Sober journeys & reflections
- Accepting what is…again and again and again, Kristen Crocker
- What is Mine to Carry? Allison Deraney
- Contemplations: The Interior Work, Author Jeremy Evans
- Chasing the Finish Line, Kimberly Kearns
- Skipping Generations – Or Not, Susie Middleton
- Patron Saint of Punks and Drunks, A Temperate Gentlewoman
- Angels Among Us, Kelly Thompson TNWWY
Sober parenting
- The Plot I Missed, and the One I Didn’t Want To, Josh Luton
- My Son Wrote This, Cecily Mak
- Omnia Vincit Amor II, Adam PT
- Confronting Alcoholism Before Fatherhood, Roscoe
- Wine In My Stanley, Celeste Yvonne
From the Sober App archives
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- Sobriety Isn’t the Glow-Up I Was Promised, But I’m Showing Up Anyway, Emily Beaver
- Recovery Isn’t About Feeling Good All the Time, Lindsey Goodrow
- Three Decades and Counting, Shana Hormann
- It’s Never Been Easy, and I’d Never Go Back, Marya Hornbacher
- 5 Years Sober: What Changed and What Surprised Me, Dr. Dana Leigh Lyons, DTCM
- It Would Have Been Easier if He’d Handed Me a Drink, Jocelyn Lovelle
5 more alcohol-free voices
What sober voices are you enjoying this October? We’d love for you to share—or just say hello—in the comments!
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