Happy New Year!! Top 5 Sobriety Tools From 2018 (and 3 things I won’t do again…)
New Year’s Eve is one holiday I love, even sober. (Especially Sober!) As a kid, my BFF Jenny and I celebrated with a sleepover. We made our favorite bean dip (literally just canned refried beans topped with melted cheese), then rang in the new year by clanging pots and pans with wooden spoons on the…
Read MoreThe Magic of She Recovers Retreats
For the last two years I’ve taken one week in summer to go to Salt Spring Island in the Gulf Islands of Canada. Ordinarily I travel solo with my dog Cassie….but this annual experience is dedicated to myself, for healing and restoration. It’s so glorious, there’s no way I can adequately express what occurs during…
Read MoreSober For The Summer (or at least 30 days)!
Alcohol Advertisers spend 100s of billions of dollars because their ads work. “Big Alcohol” is MAKING 100s of billions of dollars off the consumers every year. You see it every day, as a commercial comes on: A super fit young guy, surrounded by ladies, grabs a can of beer out of a cooler and throws his…
Read MoreHow I used Mindfulness To Stop My Chronic Relapsing
Cassie the Wonder Dog stood at the doorway of my home wagging her tail furiously; open-mouthed smiling as only a dog can. She knew we were about to embark on an adventure. All it took was me reaching towards the coat rack, or setting a luggage bag down in the entryway, and she was all…
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