Written By: Katie Schipper Clichés are those really annoying phrases we hear so often that they lose all meaning. We hear them often in twelve-step meetings. Clichés are repeated because they're recognizable and often seem to be a go to for old-timers and sponsors. AA...
Sobriety for Women Blog
A safe space for women to share their real-life stories about addiction, recovery, and sobriety. Submit Your StoryBeyond Scared Straight: Not Scared at All
As I sit here at my house watching Beyond Scared Straight, a few questions come to mind. I'm watching parents beg their kids to get their lives together. I'm watching parents plead for their children not to waste their lives committing crimes and doing drugs. I'm...
Misconceptions About Eating Disorders: Part Two
Written By: Katie Schipper Eating Disorders are incredibly dangerous and deeply misunderstood diseases. They claim the lives of every gender, religion, social class, age group, culture, and race. There's no one who's immune to an eating disorder, just like there's no...
How to Pick a Sponsor
Written By: Katie Schipper What is Sponsorship? In twelve-step recovery programs, sponsorship is vital. A sponsor has a singular purpose - to take another alcoholic or addict through the twelve-steps so that that woman may in turn take others through the steps....
How to Write a Gratitude List
Written By: Katie Schipper Learning how to be grateful is a spiritual practice. It's not something that can be forced, it comes naturally when we make a commitment and start practicing it. Gratitude isn't something readily accessible to a addict or an alcoholic active...
Did You Choose the Right Roommate(s)?
Written By: Katie Schipper Why Does Choosing a Good Roommate Matter? Early recovery can often feel like a constant onslaught of suggestions, advice, appointments, therapy, outpatient, meetings, step-work, and so on. The list of things that must be considered can seem...
The Importance of Accountability in Recovery
Written By: Fiona Stockard Blaming Others Before getting help for my addiction, I spent years blaming others for everything. It was always someone else’s fault that I drank and used drugs the way I did. “If what happened to me had happened to you, you'd use drugs like...
Picking Up the Pieces of Shattered Relationships
Written By: Fiona Stockard I recently celebrated my first anniversary in sobriety. I was in a deep state of regret coming up to my anniversary. Things were piling up. Those years in college when I'd done no work and had poor grades. That stage of my life when I should...
The Definition of a Negative Contract
Written By: Katie Schipper Negative Contracts and Women In Treatment Many of us enter recovery with a limited and almost always skewed version of reality. Honesty is a foreign concept. We've lived with so many lies that we can't tell what the truth is anymore....