Lying, manipulating, being lazy, avoiding life... that's not a great recipe for clean living. When I think about the person I was in my active addiction, when I was still drinking, and I think about my personality traits
When you are sitting at 1 week sober, or one month sober it can feel like an eternity to get to 6 months. You also have a ton of questions running through your mind about what it's going to
Alcohol is gaslighting you. It abuses you and humiliates you, it makes you feel terrible about yourself and makes your anxiety explode- then in the next breath it’s telling you how it can solve all your problems. You don’t
You look at your life, your family, education, and many other things and wonder how anyone could ever call you powerless. You definitely don't want to refer to yourself as powerless. The truth is, we are all powerless in
Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch private school education, the most expensive summer camps, and even a weekly clothing allowance. But at 24, she started dabbling in meth in San Francisco and unleashed
I don’t want to be living a double life in my recovery like I was in my addiction. I went out of my way to create this picture for the outside world, to hide what was really going on
The first months of sobriety are a roller coaster. In the beginning, you feel motivated, strong and confident- then, somewhere along the way, you begin to question if you can really do it, the committee starts telling you it's
In the early days, getting sober feels like a full-time job. You have to think about it all the time, you have to do things to protect your sobriety, you have to have new boundaries with friends and family
Healing from addiction is a long journey and often a confusing one. You think when you put the substance down, you will feel better. And that is true. But it doesn’t always happen right away. You have a tendency
High Functioning Alcoholic In the beginning stages of realizing you’re drinking out of control you wonder how you are high functioning, and an alcoholic. In my day, we went out and bought all the self-help books and vowed to