Every person has a story. This is the underlying message that Lisa Schmidt, The Sober Hipster, uses to empower people in recovery and help their voices be heard. A storyteller...
My twenty-five years of active addiction was at first slow and progressive. It crept up on me like a sneaky young petulant child seeking the approval of others, wanting to...
Sobriety can help you lead your life with the type of freedom you’ve always wanted and that’s nothing to feel sorry about. Since the beginning of my sobriety, I’ve answered...
For two years before I got sober, I was homeless. Admittedly, I lived out of a car for the first six months of those years. But it didn’t take long...
Despite his ‘battle within that will never end,’ recovering addict Ken DeCesare is reaching out as he pulls himself up. Ken DeCesare knows precisely when his troubles began. He was 16,...
I am 14 years old and I am in the back seat of my mom’s Toyota Tercel and I am literally heartbroken. I know my life is forever changing. With...
The lifelong process of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction can be made easier with the right rehabilitation, peer support and relapse prevention plans. Addiction recovery is illustrated by someone...
I sit in his office. It is the first time I am willing to be honest, about anything. About all of it. About what hurts and what doesn’t and where...
Just over five years ago, I was popping pills like they were candy, and drowning my misery in four bottles of wine a day. I was rapidly descending into an...
Honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness are each crucial in long-term addiction recovery. Everyone has a different story when it comes to addiction. Michael Griggs had his first drink of alcohol at the age...