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.
Tacita B is a self-described writer-ish, 9-to-5’er, and dog mama born and raised in east London, United Kingdom. Subscribe to Tacita’s newsletter, Sober Millennial, for her “refinedish stream of piping hot brain dump. Golden nuggets and golden fuck its.” When Tacita isn’t writing, she’s busy upholding the stereotype of millennial women by indulging in true crime.
Sober Millennial
My musings on concepts and encounters I experience as a sober millennial Londoner. Or as I like to say, “My refinedish stream of piping hot brain dump. Golden nuggets and golden fuck its.”
By Tacita B
Caroline Beidler, MSW, is an author, recovery advocate, and woman in addiction, mental health, and trauma recovery. She writes
Circle of Chairs on Substack, and her next book is coming in Fall 2024. Download Caroline’s sober summer tips here.
Circle of Chairs
Exploring grace, vulnerability, trauma and addiction recovery. In other words, bringing back Ragamuffin.
By Caroline Beidler
Pamela Cummins is an expert dream interpreter, psychic, spiritual growth coach, author, and oracle creator. Find her website here and her newsletter here.
Attitude of Cattitude
Cat Tails and Purrs with Pamela’s 5 Cats
By Pamela Cummins
Allison Deraney is a licensed real estate attorney who lives in Massachusetts with her husband, two kids, and rescue dog. She’s a woman in recovery from alcohol who credits sobriety for waking her back up to her first passion—writing. Allison spends her free time wandering in nature with her dog and cheering her kids on from the sidelines of the basketball court. You can find Allison’s writing at DARE TO BE DRY.
DARE TO BE DRY
Slowing down with intention, honoring what I want, recognizing maybe it wants me.
By Allison Deraney
Kaitlyn Elizabeth is a psychotherapist, coach, and business owner from the Midwest who currently lives in Denver with her husband, son, and their two dog-like cats. In dialoguing, Kaitlyn helps to demystify therapy and therapists—bringing therapeutic concepts out of therapy hour and into your hands.
dialoguing
dialoguing is a weekly newsletter and podcast from an off-duty psychotherapist who can’t stop thinking about how to deepen, strengthen, and widen the care for oneself and each other.
By Kaitlyn Elizabeth
Julie Fontes writes a weekly newsletter about being sober from alcohol and other aspects of being human. She’s currently serializing her quit-lit memoir and working on backwards cross-pulls at the roller-skating rink. Julie lives by the sea with her three cats and adult daughter in Ventura, California.
Like a Normal Person
I write very normal essays about my addiction hypochondria, my teeth falling out, being poor, waiting tables, gardening, also parenting both my adult child and myself. “Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion” -Dolly Parton as Truvy
By Julie Fontes
Lindsey Goodrow is a queer and sober essayist writing from Long Beach, California. She is obsessed with unearthing and unraveling life’s addictive feelings. Her work has been featured in the The Gay and Lesbian Review, and her newsletter, Sober Gemini, is published monthly on Substack.
Sober Gemini
Sobering thoughts on addictive feelings.
By Lindsey Goodrow
Becky Handley is a writer and artist from the United Kingdom. Becky writes about sobriety and other topics from a place of honesty, reality, and truth. They’re also quite funny! Judge for yourself and find more of Becky’s writing at Becky Writes.
Becky Writes
A place for the writing and life updates of a neurodivergent, non-binary, working-class wonder and weirdo. Sometimes they’re funny. Sometimes they’re immensely vulnerable. Sometimes they’re both. But, they are always honest. Welcome 🖤✨🌈
By Becky Handley
Tawny Lara is the author of Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze, co-author of The Sobriety Deck, co-host of the Recovery Rocks podcast, and co-founder of the vinegar-based botanical beverage, (parentheses). Tawny’s newsletter is Beyond Liquid Courage.
Beyond Liquid Courage
Real talk about publishing, entrepreneurship, the NA drink scene, and mental health
By Tawny Lara
Dana Leigh Lyons is a sober writer and Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her newsletter,
Sober Soulful, is a 2,900+ member community for folks investigating their relationship with alcohol and other drugs, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive patterning, online technologies and social media, overwork and external validation, and problematic relationships.
Sober Soulful
For anyone exploring their relationship to unhelpful patterns. Intimate essays on addiction, sobriety, and being human from a sober Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and writer still figuring it out.
By Dana Leigh Lyons
Randal Lyons is 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 version of The Program through his newsletter, The Sober Shaman.
The Sober Shaman
Addiction recovery through shamanism
By Randal Lyons
Marina, aka Messy Recovery, holds a BA in Psychology and MA in Speech and Communications. She is a lifelong student of yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, a certified Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery teacher and facilitator, and a Jungian Coach. Marina writes Messy Recovery by Maki, a weekly newsletter about her personal journey through recovery and all the things in life that make our human experience both magical and painful.
Messy Recovery by Maki
Welcome to Messy Recovery – a journal, newsletter, about addictions recovery, my recovery journey and all the things that make this magical, and yet often painful, experience of being human.
Esther Nagle is a recovery and embodiment coach, nature connection guide, yoga and meditation teacher, writer, and mama. Her newsletter, Return to Your Trees, is full of tips, strategies, and inspiration for anyone choosing to get sober and embarking on a joyous, abundant life in recovery.
Return to Your Trees
Recovery, wellbeing and belonging through nature and connection
By Esther Nagle
Ellie Nova lives with her husband and son in Lewes, East Sussex, where she spends as much time as she can connecting to the natural world. She is passionate about writing, has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, and is working on her memoir. Ellie is also a sober mentor and soon-to-be sober coach. You can find her newsletter at A Little Fantastic.
A Little Fantastic
Reflections on living an alcohol-free life with presence and compassion
By Ellie Nova
Peter Stromberg writes The Dented Wagon, a weekly newsletter featuring stories and tools to support changing your relationship with alcohol and being a better human. More than five years sober, Peter offers a seasoned perspective on sobriety and describes his writing as coming from scars rather than cuts.
The Dented Wagon
Welcome to The Dented Wagon. We’re all a bit dented and carrying some shit. Here’s an attempt to make some sense of it and maybe a path to a better way.
By Peter Stromberg
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