Dear Readers,
I am creating this blog in order to help people with answers to staying sane in sobriety. I cannot promise I can help, but I will give it my best effort.
My sobriety date is March 23, 1989. Before that, I was a hopeless human being, who thought that life without alcohol, was life not worth living. The idea of functioning without my best friends whiskey, beer, wine, vodka, tequila (you name it, I drank it!), was unthinkable. Were these not the only things that could (at least temporarily!)drown out the insanity that daily passed as my mind? I couldn't imagine it.
Yet when I came to sobriety, I came to see that the very thing I thought was comforting me, was causing my life to feel so insecure, dysfunctional, and scary. And I came to understand that people just like me were living peaceful, productive, serene lives, and that I could do it too.
So here I am, twenty years later, still doing the things people do to stay sober and sane. I am active in recovery, with many girls who call me for help and/or advice, and people who I turn to for the same in my life.
Feel free to send in questions, advice-column style, I guess, and I will offer the best advice I can, guided mostly by God, common sense, and proven ideas of how to stay sane in sobriety. If no questions come, I'll pick a topic each day that I am able, and write a bit about my own experience.
Tracy, thanks for opening yourself up to well...whatever might come of this. You are of service to so many, especially your little nephew. Peaceful, productive and serene. Words are like musical notes in a song. A beautiful song. I can sure relate to your talk of the 'before life' - what a dark and lonely road the before life was. One I hope never to walk again.
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