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The Best Fashion Line out There for Sober Peeps
Hallmark doesn’t exactly have a section in their store titled “For Recovering Addicts.” Sure there are cool stores that cater to the sober and fabulous but how about a clothing and jewelry line that...
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I’m Sober and I Believe Harm Reduction Works
One of my favorite things about the needle exchange where I worked was that it was a safe, welcoming space for active drug users. My least favorite thing was that, in order to be a participant, you had...
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How I Got Sober: Joe
Many alcoholics who come to AA don’t get sober the first time, often going out and coming back until they either get sober, go to jail or pass away. Although there are plenty of people who stop...
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AfterPartyPod: Dr. Pat Allen
Relationship expert and licensed Marriage, Family and Child counselor Dr. Pat Allen has been a legend in the psychology field for over three decades. She’s the author of the longtime bestseller Getting...
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The Big Lie: Being Sober Sucks
For a very long time in my drinking and drugging career, I clung to the notion that, yeah, while I definitely needed to stop drinking and taking drugs, I was in no real hurry. Because if I knew...
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How to Know When You’ve Reached Bottom
I remember my first day in rehab. I was scared sober, riddled with anxiety and fearful of the unknown. When I arrived at what looked like Little House on the Prairie, the other seven women who were in...
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I Love and Embrace My Appearance—With These Exceptions
I’m 5’9″ and I’ve got super broad shoulders, a narrow waist and relatively normal-sized hips. Some people have told me I have a swimmer’s body, and when they do, I want to smash their faces into the...
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A Recovery Miracle: I Now Buy Gifts When I’m Supposed to
Two months ago, I did the unthinkable. I was on my way to my cousin’s baby shower and it occurred to me that maybe, since I was 35, it might be time to actually look up her registry and scroll through...
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How a Life of Addiction Ends
In 1989 I left New York City after a rough year of trying to stay clean off drugs. Within a month of returning to California I was back on heroin, just like I’d never stopped. It was the first time I...
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Five Years Sober and I’m Still a Food Slob
One night I sat cross-legged on the floor eating Del Monte green beans covered in thousand island dressing straight out of the can for dinner. I’d like to say that I was broke, that I was drunk, that I...
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How To Date Online Like a Sane Person
We addicts and alcoholics tend to get compulsive about anything, and online dating, or dating in general, can turn into just another fix. Of course dating can be a big struggle for anyone on the...
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How I Got Sober: Allison
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a lot of things. In elementary school I wanted to be a dancer. In middle school, I became fascinated with bee charmers and thought that sounded cool. In high...
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Getting Sober from Hugh Laurie and Chocolate Kisses
It’s 1 am and I am blearily cuing up yet another hour of House on Netflix. I am exhausted, but I have convinced myself that I must watch just one more episode. Perhaps this time Dr. House will break...
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How I Got Sober: Sevasti
By the end of my drinking, I more than hit rock bottom. I felt like I was buried alive. I lived alone in a foreclosed house in Palmdale. The homeowner had moved out. I filed for bankruptcy so I could...
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Ask the Experts: How Can Exercise Help the Newly Sober?
AfterParty is pleased to have a number of esteemed professionals in our back pocket who are employed in various fields of psychological and spiritual wellness. Today we’re talking to Patty Powers, a...
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Sober People Finding Kindred Spirits at Music Fests
When I quit drinking, I thought I’d never be able to enjoy a concert again. I’ve admittedly never been a die-hard live music person and I never even tried a drug beyond marijuana so it’s not like I was...
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Here’s What Happened When I Tried the Hot New Sober App
“I was at Sundance in Park City and wanted to connect with sober people,” says 33-year-old former art dealer Beau Mann to describe his impetus for creating Sober Grid, the app for sober folks that has...
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Dating in Early Sobriety—a Cautionary Tale
Recovery divides my life into two seemingly convenient categories: Drunk Lucy and Sober Lucy. I had my first sip of alcohol at a wedding when I was 13, but I did not start to drink alcoholically until...
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AfterPartyPod: John Albert
Writer and musician John Albert did not have a standard trajectory to literary success—in fact he says he became a writer by accident when he submitted information about his amateur baseball team,...
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Thank God I’ve Never Had To Date in Sobriety
“You’ll never meet a good guy in a bar or nightclub.” That’s what people say, right? Wrong. I met my boyfriend of three-and-a-half years in an after hours club in the resort town of Cancun, Mexico, and...
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