10 Tips for Your First Holiday Season Sober Can you imagine brunch without mimosas? Can you imagine New Year’s Eve without a toast of champagne? What about your work holiday party without an open bar? One of the things we worry about most when we get sober is how we’ll get through special life events…
5 Pieces of Advice I Received that Helped Me Quit Drinking So often the question comes up: What made me quit drinking? Although I believe it was a combination of divine intervention from the universe, me getting tired of my bullshit, and the destructive consequences of alcohol misuse, along the way I had some personal…
Being a person in long-term recovery, I am all too familiar with the symptoms of someone abusing drugs. I just have to take a moment to reflect on my old life: always late or cancelling commitments, never having any money, always sick, depression and mood swings, unreliability, regularly off work, increasingly precarious behavior, needing more…
You Do Not Need to Be an Alcoholic to Go to Treatment – Here’s Why When I got sober I quit cold turkey. As you’ve probably heard, this isn’t recommended for everyone who decides to quit drinking. In some cases, it can even be dangerous because of physical withdrawal symptoms. I didn’t know this when…
Have you ever wondered how substance users get hooked on their drug of choice? Why do some people only smoke weed, while others pride themselves on never picking up a drug, yet they binge drink 5 days a week? There are other people who smoke meth, or snort cocaine, and most recently we’ve seen countless…
Did you know alcohol is poison? Yes, that’s right the alcohol you drink is ethanol, the same type of alcohol you find in cleaning products, fuel, and feedstock. Most people would never guess this or know from the amount of alcohol advertisements we see every day that send the message that alcohol is fun, cool,…