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Welcome! As part of celebrating and growing the Sober App Substack community, this periodic feature showcases recent 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 non-binary baker, writer/poet, and recovering addict in Southern Illinois. They are the author of
Recovering Trans Mystic, a Substack newsletter, and
Post-Eclipse: A Queer Home (2024), a chapbook of poems published and available at Bottlecap Press.
Recovering Trans Mystic
Have questions of creativity, poetry, deconstruction, spirituality, addiction/recovery, gender-queer transitioning, or even baking? Find community, here!
By Jo Christian (they/them)
Kristen Crocker is a mother, stepmother, and advocate for normalizing the discussion of alcoholism among strong, smart women. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho in 2013, and now makes a living selling tree work. Kristen writes about sobriety and parenting in her newsletter:
Recoverettes.
Normalizing recovery from alcoholism among strong, smart women through neuroscience, Twelve Step, woo-woo, and embracing anything that works for you.
By Billy Crocker
Laura Fessenden lives in Colorado with her husband and French Bulldog, Buddy. Laura runs a bakery in the Boulder area with three locations. She is also a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and hopeless optimist.
Lindsey Goodrow, a gay and sober essayist from Southern California, explores the addictive aspects of the human experience. Her work has appeared in
The Gay and Lesbian Review and
Dream Boy Book Club. Her second prose chapbook,
Love You More Than Wine, is out with Bottlecap Press. For more about her work, follow her on social media @lingod, and find her newsletter at:
Sober Gemini.
Sober Gemini
Sobering thoughts on addictive feelings.
By Lindsey Goodrow
Kimberly Kearns is the author of
On the Edge of Shattered. She hosted
The Weekend Sober Podcast, is the head writer for season 2 of the narrative podcast
Fcking Sober: The First 90 Days, and founded the Boston-based social club Sober in the Suburbs. She lives with her husband and three kids in Needham, MA, and writes about addiction, parenting, and recovery in her newsletter:
Unshattered Sobriety.
Unshattered Sobriety
For real people who want the vulnerable and honest truth about what it’s like to recover from addiction.
By Kimberly Kearns
Dana Leigh Lyons is a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and writer sharing heart-sourced, no-bullsh*t insights on addiction, sobriety, and holistic wellness. She manages Sober App Substack alongside writing her own newsletter:
PERFECT HUNGER, feeding your hunger for a more beautiful, more nourishing life.
PERFECT HUNGER
Feeding your hunger for a more beautiful, more nourishing life. Heart-sourced, no-bullsh*t guidance on body-mind-spirit wellness from a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
By Dana Leigh Lyons
Jocelyn Lovelle is a writer, sober human, and cold-water swimmer living in Austin, Texas. She navigates the beauty and devastation of being human by believing we are all connected and that more love is always the answer. Find her newsletter at:
Hello Beautifuls.
Hello Beautifuls
Writing at the intersection of trauma recovery, compassion and love. Humaning is beautiful and devastating and more love is always the answer, even when we can’t see it.
By Jocelyn Lovelle
Mac is the creator of the
Porn Free Millennial newsletter and
podcast, platforms dedicated to helping individuals break free from porn addiction and other destructive behaviors. Focusing on healing generational trauma and the damaging aftermath of trying to medicate it, Mac shares personal stories of overcoming addiction and building new traditions of connection. Mac also supports others in their recovery journey through coaching, writing, a weekly
Break Free Newsletter, and the
52 Weeks of Freedom Series, which fosters resilience, self-awareness, and long-term healing.
Porn Free Millennial
My goal is to share my relationship with porn and why I decided to remove it from my life. If you’ve ever had the thought or have taken action before to quit porn, subscribe to receive tips and encouragement to help you on your journey!
By Mac
Jamie Marie is an Energetic Healer, Self-Love/Self-Reclamation Coach, and Podcast Host at
Unraveling ~This Life. Jamie believes in the healing power of community, self-love, and self-reclamation as essential pillars in recovery.
Unraveling ~This Life
We guide women on a journey of Radical Self-Reclamation through Self-love
By This Life With July & Jamie
Gordon Szyszko lives in Minneapolis with his girlfriend, Carmen, and works as a truck driver. He enjoys spending time outdoors, hunting for agates on the North Shore of Lake Superior, making crafts, and painting. Gordon has a 21-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter who live nearby. You can find him on Facebook and Instagram.
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