Category: sobriety

  • Not New to Sobriety ….

    Not New to Sobriety ….

    My sober journey began when I started college at CU Boulder when I stopped smoking weed. I used to be an athlete and played club soccer including my freshman year in college. I lived in the engineering quad. We would travel on weekends all over Colorado so just didn’t drink or smoke weed. I didn’t…

  • First Week of PHP …

    First Week of PHP …

    I just completed my first week of PHP, partial hospitalization program (9:30am-3:30pm) Monday – Friday. I previously attended a residential program for 22 days, was hospitalized for 11 days, and went to rehab for 8 days and now I’m in sober living, without a car, living in a home with other women. It’s been a…

  • You Don’t Need to Be Perfect ….

    You Don’t Need to Be Perfect ….

    You don’t have to be perfect. Look at me hospitalized August put on a 5150 hold, twice and again in October then sent to residential for 22 days, PHP, then rehab for 8 days and now in sober living. No matter how you get there, get there and be proud. I’m proud to say I’m…

  • Learning from Relapse …

    Learning from Relapse …

    I started getting sober 2006, and for the most part maintained sobriety, and regular attendance at AA meetings beginning 2011. Recovery didn’t start becoming a problem for me until I went back to drinking. Usually in periods when I forgot that I stopped drinking 2006, and didn’t drink for the majority of college and law…