4-JPG Journey in Sobriety

4-JPG Journey in Sobriety

What I heard sobriety felt like … What it really felt like once I got started …

What I Know For Sure

What I Know For Sure

A quick Sunday thank you to all the Sober Identity followers. This blog has afforded me, not only the opportunity...

Be My Own Hero

Be My Own Hero

I have a profound respect for those who manage to get sober this time of the year. The near impossible...

Desperation

Desperation

Desperation … That crumbling moment when I will say or do anything, so as not to receive the natural, yet...

What It Means to Go Deeper

What It Means to Go Deeper

This is the actual private journal entry I wrote when struggling for the words to this week’s post. It seemed...

The Altar of Recovery

The Altar of Recovery

The one consistent action that alcoholics in recovery (not to be confused with in abstinence) perform is putting all their troubles on...

Don’t Say It, Don’t Say It …

Don’t Say It, Don’t Say It …

… Don’t say it.     The Wednesday night mantra. And like any good irritant the issue and the mantra rolled...

Fragmented Me

Fragmented Me

frag•ment n.  a part broken off or detached, isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part origin: 1530s, from L. fragmentum “ a...

No one treated me worse than I (ultimately) treated myself

No one treated me worse than I (ultimately) treated myself

This was—is—the hardest of principles for me to grasp. Yet when I, even slightly, welcome this notion, I am somehow...

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Everything. I spent most of my years searching for love. It was those few missing pieces from the 1000 piece...