Are you struggling to reach your highest potential? Are you fighting to overcome stress, anxiety, overeating or other life challenges? I sure have! I am SO excited to tell you about the HEAL program which is designed as a mentorship to help folks achieve emotional freedom! At the age of 36 as a wife and mother, I was at the peak of my high-stress corporate career when I realized that alcoholism was a true fact for me. I was doing what I'd done for years, numbing my emotions in a way that ...
Mind
Feeling Trapped in Your Emotions?
Throughout my life I have struggled at different times with feeling trapped in my own mind or emotions. I've suffered through depression, anxiety, PTSD, post-partum depression, addiction and I'm sure many other mental health issues. I know I'm not alone...I know that so many of us face these challenges during our lives and have experienced the feeling of living under a cloak of darkness. Feeling Trapped in Your Emotions? During the times of darkness I've been logically aware that other ...
Last Call – Nancy’s story of Alcoholism and Recovery
Sober doesn’t Suck! is a safe place for people to share their stories of facing alcoholism, addiction and recovery openly and honestly. There is no requirement of sobriety for posting, if you’re concerned about your using I want to hear from you too. I recently received the following article from one of my readers, Nancy. I’m honoured to share her words, hoping someone will find comfort and hope in them. If you’d like to tell your story, your feelings about your own addiction or that ...
Conversations About Addiction Will Break the Stigma
As someone who has been in recovery from alcoholism for 6 years now, I've had countless conversations about addiction and am often pausing to absorb another person's insight. In my first year of recovery from addiction I was taught to slow down my thoughts and realize that my own perspective isn't actually fact. Further to that, in the first year of sobriety I was actually like a toddler learning to walk again; my world had changed so drastically that I really didn't know my own self. My ...
A Look Inside Living with PTSD
It's been 6 years since I was in a car accident that left me to live with post-concussive syndrome, muscular injuries and PTSD. Over those years I've had countless types of therapies and thankfully my life has improved on physical, spiritual and emotional levels. Today I was re-reading blog articles I had written during the early days and I found one which struck me in the heart. It grabbed me with the cold hand of fear that PTSD is founded in and began to pull back all of those old, dark ...