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Category: SOBRIETY

Recovery is a dish best served cold.

Posted on June 7, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

{I wrote this post a few weeks ago.  I’ve been immersed in my recovery and have not wanted to share this yet.  I’m ready now.  A few posts regarding my recovery – from alcoholism, addiction and depression – will be following shortly.  What is important is that there is light at the end of the tunnel….

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Learnings

Posted on February 23, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I am returned. A new woman, a changed woman, a stronger woman. I am returned a woman more aware of her essence. I am a returned woman full of awareness, and rawness, and understanding of the lifelong work I have before me. I don’t quite yet know how to find the words that adequately describe…

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Goodbye and hello – a journey to the light

Posted on January 19, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

“I feel like such a failure”. I’m sitting opposite my friend.  We are having coffee.  She wanted to see me before I go away. I haven’t told a lot of people about me going away, even though it is here on my blog. Telling the wider world doesn’t feel as personal somehow, though a few…

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The family gathering

Posted on January 11, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I pick up the phone and make the call. “Hey Pumpkin, it’s mom.  Dad and I have something we would like to tell you.  Can you come over at 8:30, just on your own.” Miss J and R have a friend over to stay but this isn’t something I want to tell them.  For now,…

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The phone call that starts a journey to recovery

Posted on January 9, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I look at the phone. I pick it up.  I put it down.  I pace.  I pick it up again. “Sarah, you need to make the call.” Mr C had said. Tears trickled down my cheeks. “I’m not that bad,” I plead, “I don’t need this.  I can manage, I am FINE!” When I grew…

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Letting go, breathing deep

Posted on January 4, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I wake up feeling groggy. Mr C’s alarm goes off.  A new day, a new year, and work begins again. I have not slept well. I have not been sleeping well for the longest time. Late to sleep, early to rise.  Not enough sleep.  By a long margin. I am fatigued, groggy, unproductive. I grab…

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My name is Sarah and I am a recovering alcoholic who is codependent

Posted on December 8, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

As a writer, I have never really been one for fiction, though I dabble here and there.  No, instead, I am far more drawn to the genre of memoir. Memoir gives us a rare, brave insight into the human condition and how a person deals with the hand that life gave them. Good memoirists are…

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About Me

I am Sarah –  human & wearer of many labels:  Autistic with co-morbidities of ADHD, & C-PTSD.  ME/CFS sufferer too.  But I am more than those labels.  I am wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, crafter, writer, blogger, advocate, educator. Welcome to my blog.  You can read more about me here

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