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Written By: Katie Schipper Getting Over Depression and Anxiety in Early-Recovery Giving up drugs and alcohol alters our brain chemistry. After all, drugs and booze serve as substitute chemicals, so the brain stops producing its natural ones. It's going to take a...
Tips to Help Quit Smoking
Written By: Katie Schipper Busting the Myths of Quitting Tobacco in Early-Sobriety Giving up drugs and alcohol is hard. If it were easy, then we wouldn’t need treatment, and twelve-step fellowships, and therapy, and IOP, and so on. Getting sober is really hard. Giving...
Getting Into Healthy Romantic Relationships in Sobriety
Written By: Katie Schipper Romantic Relationships in Sobriety Can Be Healthy! No, but seriously. Wait. That guy/girl/whoever you met in your treatment center/halfway house/that meeting that you can’t live without? You can. Just wait. The crazy thing about waiting is...
How to Deal with a Roommate Who is Relapsing
Written By: Katie Schipper Dealing with a Relapsing Roommate Isn't Easy One of the first things you'll hear in treatment or a twelve-step fellowship is that not everyone stays sober. There are a lot of reasons people relapse into active addiction, but it usually comes...
When Are You Ready To Get a Pet?
Written By: Katie Schipper Pets Are A Lot Of Work Animals, yay! Pets are one of the greatest little joys in this life. They become part of your family and are absolutely worth every vet-bill, clean up, and minor annoyance. Pets are the best. Pets are also a lot of...
Jim Carrey’s Commencement Speech May Be All You Need To Get Sober
Written by Tim Myers "All Righty Then” “Look At The Fun-bags On That” “Holy Testicle Tuesday” “Holy S**t-balls” “We Got No Food, We Got No Jobs...Our PETS' HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!” “That John Denver's Full Of S**t" How Jim Carrey’s Commencement Speech Can Keep You...
Going Clubbing in Sobriety: Out of the Question or Super Legit?
Written By: Katie Schipper Is it Safe to Go Clubbing as a Sober Women? Is It Even Possible? Let’s be honest, if you're newly sober and the vision of the life you used to lead isn't too far behind you, it probably feels a lot like you don’t get to do anything you used...
Finding New Hobbies
Written By: Katie Schipper Remembering What It Was Like Out There For any woman who's made it to the point where they attend a women’s treatment center, the idea that there was anything good left in continuing to get high sounds insane. Knowing that intellectually is...