Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. Welcome to sacdizzy's Soberlish. You may be wondering why I selected the name Soberlish. When I first entered into recovery, I discovered how wonderful I felt about myself and my body. I started with Alcoholics Anonymous more than 7 years ago, and though I do …
Goodbye Nicotine
"Pray for the willingness, to be willing, if you're not willing."- Heard In the Rooms If you read my previous post about apartment hunting, you saw that I tried to quit smoking a while back. Unfortunately, I did not get the apartment and my attempt to quit smoking was not successful. My therapist asked me …
Little Setbacks
When someone discriminates and judges me, my initial reaction is self-pity and I may shed a few tears. My secondary reaction is to retaliate and cause pain back to the person who has hurt me. Luckily in sobriety I have tools today to pause and not cause unnecessary wreckage. I can take a deep breath, …
Baulking At My 4th Step
Step 4: “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” I've done at least four 4th Steps in the last 7 years and I know the immenseweight that is lifted off you once you have completed this step and share it with your sponsor. It feels like a grand piano has been taken off …
Apartment Hunting
There are so many struggles we go through in life. For me, the struggle to get sober, to pull myself out of clinical depression, to go back to school, and this New Year, the struggle to quit smoking. My fiance and I are looking to move in together and while he works in the Bay …