Tag Archives: Sobriety
Top Three Myths about Sobriety and Age
In today’s day and age with the constant influx of reality TV shows, social media and drug-inspired music, it’s no wonder so many young people get sucked into the trap of substance abuse. With a society that glorifies getting wasted and considers getting drunk on your 21st birthday a rite of passage, young adults today […]
How to Deal with Emotions in Recovery
When going through recovery, most people continually speak about maintaining a certain level of positivity when going through the transition into a life of sobriety. Especially since people who are coming out of sobriety are coming out without abusing the drugs that they used to use to suppress their feelings, it is important for them […]
Does Sobriety Affect Your Creativity?
More often than not, it seems that some of the most creative people consequently fall victim to addiction. After all, it was Ernest Hemingway who coined the phrase “write drunk; edit sober.” With a proclamation such as that, it begs the question of whether or not addiction and substance abuse actually unleashes the creativity within […]
3 Common Culprits of Added Stress
Find yourself stressed out more than normal? Maintaining sobriety once you are done with addiction treatment, never proves to be an easy task, but there are ways to make the process easier on yourself and those around you. One of the ways, is to eradicate some of the roots of the stress – take a […]
Inside The Next Happy
What better time to delve into a new book other than when you are delving into being a new you? While focusing on sobriety after you have completed treatment is never an easy feat, sometimes reading about someone else’s journey and the lessons they learned before you, can act as a reminder of why you […]
Students Making Greater Strides towards Sobriety
As of late, the University of Texas joined the legions of schools across the country who are jumping on the recovery bandwagon. Instead of sitting back and watching headline after headline of another student tragedy due to alcohol or drug overdose, students have decided to take matters into their own hands and run a new […]
The Sobriety Store You’ve Been Waiting For
Welcome to the most exciting recovery store yet! While most stores offer a bland array of sobriety gifts; including: plastic chips and bookmarks with inspirational quotes printed onto them, My 12-Step Store aims to provide a stark contrast to the dowdy gifts that most people in recovery are used to receiving. Owner RJ Holguin explains […]
Navigating Sober Dating
Navigating the tumultuous world of dating proves challenging enough, without having to worry about maintaining your sobriety on top of it. Take it from James, a 33-year-old Los Angeles photographer who has been sober for eight years. When he first re-entered the dating world, “I spent five years dating messed up speed freaks…I guess I […]