For daily inspiration while being sober in daily life, try focusing on a positive outlook and setting small, achievable goals. Consider exploring motivational quotes, practicing mindfulness, or connecting with nature. Remember, even small steps forward contribute to progress. Here’s how to incorporate daily inspiration into your routine: 1. Start the day with positivity: Mindfulness: Practice […]
Are drugs and alcohol what the devil replaced the forbidden fruit with? Ha!! Really, can there be a more apt parallel for considering that while we are born into paradise, there can be a fairly persistent temptation to just always want more. Take that to the most basic level of desire and it makes one […]
This may be the most simplified summary of 2 of the largest and most important aspects of mental health impacting escapism practices, often alcohol use. Sometimes existing hurts inside and no matter how we look at the reasons and rationalize their insignificance, we feel helpless over the power they have over us. FEAR is the […]
Can you believe the stuff that gets marketed to us? If that’s an odd way to start this thread, consider the labeling that has been and continues to be constantly unjustly applied to people all the time through the media. It seems that the term ‘alcoholic’ may be one of the worst ever. Popularized by […]
There’s a lot of focus understandably on the challenges and opportunities in the initial day, month and years of abstinence from toxic substances. There’s less support and direction for building on one’s mental health in ways that overcome those negative emotions that inevitably re-emerge with clarity in sobriety and present an obstacle to fully actualized […]
Sobriety is a much larger discipline than developing a logical aversion to substance abuse. It starts there for sure and we’ve spoken often on the path to retraining the neurological pathways that form habits to lead in different directions other than reaching for a drink or other substance. On this journey of self improvement, we […]
Learn the gratitude formula that comes from sobriety and contriubution.
By nature we are instinctual animals and it is evident that the path to mindfulness and connectedness that we seek is in fact a return to our more natural state. Before social norms and laws started to provide direction for what was appropriate behaviour, we have always had a sense of intelligent instinct to draw […]
Escape is better sober, including to a beautiful mountain lake.