Taking my kids to urgent care: hungover v. sober
Same action. Different experience.
Recoverettes
Normalizing recovery from alcoholism among strong, smart women while exploring motherhood, step-motherhood, staying sober through the shit times, Twelve Step, woo-woo, and embracing anything that works for you.
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This course changed my life. Yesterday it became accessible to almost everyone.
The Boundaries program that solidified my sobriety
This Particular Splash Pad, 5 years apart
I'm a different person.
"It’s literally piss, but I'm here for it," or, on potty training my toddler sober
This weekend, my husband and I attempted (with pretty decent success, I have to say) to potty train our daughter.
Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in: a meditation
With some help from Thich Nhat Hanh
Recovery has given me a life that has taken me away from recovery
And how I still stay close
If You Can Drive, You Can Nurse — And Other Lies I Told Myself
The gift of sobriety in breastfeeding
The particular sting of critique
Is this the first time I’ve given a shit about something in over a decade?
More lessons from nature
Spring has arrived here in the Southeast, issuing, as it does each year, a gentle reminder that everything is exactly as it is meant to be happening, in the exact time it is meant to be happening.
A fictiony non-fiction prose poem to celebrate the Year of the Fire Horse
The Year of the Fire Horse tells me I should move boldly, so in celebration of this, I’m taking a one-off break from my usual sobriety content to share some art — as noted in the title, a prose poem involving the Shackleford Horses with questionable emotional and historical accuracy: