Exploring Sobriety

The recovery path is filled with detours and missteps.

After six and a half years sober, this is what keeps me going.

What does it take to protect ourselves from relapsing?

It’s not just who we hurt, but also who hurt us.

A recent trip to the west coast led to unexpected temptation.

Even the people we look up to most can sometimes let us down.

Navigating the well-meaning and not-so-well-meaning responses to sobriety.

This is what runs through my mind when I “play the tape.”

How to stick with sobriety after the novelty wears off.

Can I stay sober in a foreign country?

This is how quitting alcohol immediately improved my life.

Are you overlooking this powerful recovery tool?

The recovery community isn’t always as supportive as it should be.

The question nearly every recovering addict eventually asks.

(And how to prevent it.)

Does this popular strategy eventually become exhausting?

Everything you need to know about this surprising stage of recovery.

Reflecting on a milestone.

How exercise became a pillar of my recovery, and why sometimes, we need to set our skepticism aside.

Have you ever had this thought? So did all the rest of us.

Why I stopped trying to “reason” with my addiction.

Can you go to a bar after getting sober? Should you?

Life doesn’t have to be so endlessly mortifying.

Sobriety doesn’t have to be boring.