Tag: Sobriety
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Why Can’t You Drink? Misunderstanding Alcoholism and Addiction
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What’s a question you hate to be asked? Why can’t you drink? Why can’t you control your drinking? A short post about misunderstanding alcoholism and addiction.
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A Poem About Recovery Hope and Change
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No Matter No matter how hard it is to keep the fire burning, no matter how many disappointments have visited you without warning, no matter how many different trials you’ve sat through today, though the verdict may be hard to swallow, tomorrow, tomorrow’s another day. And it may seem impossible in this moment, but in…
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The Cost of Freedom – Recovery Addiction Poem
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The Cost of Freedom Confining walls, prison cell; there’s no shame in wearing a straight jacket if it makes you well. Dirty dishes, soiled clothes; it’s a heavy burden to keep your house clean on your own. Hidden secrets, concealed lies; they are the extent of your sickness – the enemy of recovery is pride.…
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One Is Never Enough, Ten Will Never Do – A Poem About Addiction
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Having suffered through the bonds of addiction, I sought in this poem to somehow put into perspective what the transformation of an addict is like. It never starts off as tragedy, but as a solution to all life’s problems – the missing puzzle piece that we’ve been searching for all of our life to make…
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The War on Addiction
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Breaking any addiction is hard work. There’s always a period when your body and mind fight back, and you doubt your reasoning for quitting in the first place. I think this is where most people fail. They convince themselves they don’t actually want to quit and go back to the safety of their addiction, listening…
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Sobriety – The Promise Of A New Dawn
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When I first got sober, I had many misconceptions about what sobriety meant. I told myself that once I got sober I would be happy, life would get easier, my problems would get better, etc. In a nutshell, I thought that when I quit drinking I would be a completely different person and could start…
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