Recovery is possible, and at Workit Health we’re here to celebrate people’s positive changes. Find stories of recovery to inspire your own journey.
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Here's a very useful tool from Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's recovery toolbox that helps nip those drink cravings in the bud.
In Part 2 of Sober Before 21, Beth Leipholtz shares her experience of getting help for her addiction after hitting rock bottom during her first few years in college.
William Hopkins, 24, lives in New York City and has been sober for eight years. After a damaging experience at a rehab facility that has since been shut down, he continues to hold tight to his sobriety and made it out on the other side.
In her Sober in the City series, Tawny Lara of SobrieTea Party shares her experience with therapy and why it's such an important part of her recovery journey.
In retrospect, this rock bottom of mine was a long time coming. Let me back up a few years, and you’ll see what I mean.
To live a sober life, I had to change certain aspects of my lifestyle. And that's when I found Broadway.
For the first time in my sobriety, I’m addressing not only my issue with drugs, but my issues with love and men, and possibly, even sex.
The problem, as I see it, isn’t the word addict. It’s that some people don’t allow that label to evolve.
I’ve flirted with the idea of improv for awhile now, but the thought of emitting that amount of vulnerability scared me to death. I used to hide my vulnerability by binge drinking a ton of whiskey, but this year, I’ve decided to face it head on.
It’s really easy to quit drinking. It’s the staying quit that’s the struggle.
Once upon a time, I trusted my brain implicitly. Why wouldn’t I? It had kept me alive, after all, and no one had ever told me that this cerebral cortex of mine was unreliable. When my brain told me certain things—say, that I didn’t have feelings for someone anymore, that a friend had wronged me or that my boss deserved to get an earful about how dissatisfied I was—I assumed it was correct and acted on those thoughts.
I stood there, with my eyes closed, picturing myself taking a bath while drinking a big glass of wine. This delusional thought was so relaxing, I may have even smiled. When the train slammed on its brakes, and I had to get off at my stop, it brought me right back to my reality: I. Can’t. Drink.
For years, I hid my addiction to prescription pills. In fact, I didn’t even want to call it an addiction. If I called it an addiction, then that meant I had to quit and I wasn’t ready to do that.
For most people contemplating quitting drinking, a primary concern is how am I going to do the things I used to do sober? It can seem daunting to even sit on the couch and watch Netflix without a glass of wine in hand let alone go to a party and God forbid, socialize sober!
A funny thing happens when people quit drinking or even cut down significantly: other addictions tend to appear in their place. In recovery, we call this the Whac-A-Mole syndrome – named for the arcade game where you hit a mole over the head with a mallet only to have three more pop up until pretty soon you’re overwhelmed with moles and you just need a drink to calm down!
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