​ Inspirational ​Sobriety Quotes: ​8 Women Get Real About Their Alcoholism

I remember, awhile ago, I started drinking in the morning and walked down to the local liquor store. On my return up the steep hill home, I slipped into the woods to have a few drinks, hiding so my adult children who were home wouldn’t know. The glass bottle was tucked safely under the waistband of my sweats inside my coat. I placed my arms around my tummy to keep my prize from Sober Home escaping from my grip. The Naltrexone implant took away my cravings to drink straight away. It has helped me a great deal in my battle to stop drinking cravings. The implant definitely works and rehabs don’t work. I received my first Naltrexone implant on 22 December 2013. It stabilized my mood and prevented cravings. It has helped me a lot to rehabilitate and live healthy.

And the way that I experience things, the way that I cultivate my relationships with people. I get to live with both sides of me, the ugly and the good. I can maneuver things and figure out what’s a good decision for me. The gray area just kind of becomes a little less. There’s a whole world that is so celebratory and celebrates you finding your truth. It’s a thing where you’ll say, “I’m a month sober,” and people will be like, Congratulations! As I sit here writing this story, a counter on my computer desktop indicates that I have been sober 2,105 days, one day at a time. However, what amazes me about this time is that it is 25,000 times the duration I could go at the end of my drinking career without having the need or the craving to have alcohol. For 8 years I was a junky and after the implant I couldn’t feel any better. Nothing worked for me as I tried everything.

Patrick’s Story

I stopped eating and finally ended up in the ER a couple of times before they diagnosed the liver failure and the rest. The doctors just gave up and shipped me off to a county hospital to die. I was blessed with Alateen fellowship at a recent Al-Anon area conference. They have encouraged me to act on my concerns for my children’s future by hugging them, loving them, and sharing recovery with them today. One of the most shocking episodes of “Intervention” involved identical twins, Sonia and Julia. According to the episode summary, the girls “shared everything” as kids and enjoyed a happy childhood. However, everything changed after anorexia got a grip. They focused their competitiveness on obsessive weight loss. Eventually, they were “so stricken with fear that the other will burn more calories that they never let each other out of their sight.” “[Heroin’s] my number one boyfriend. Because it is, it’s my number one,” Tiffany admitted.

Jessica seemed to have it all as a successful DJ living in Los Angeles working at the hottest Hollywood parties and nightclubs. On the inside, though, she found herself using alcohol to mask the depression and anxiety she was dealing with in her everyday life. Inspired by her own sobriety, she started A Sober Girls Guide for other women in recovery. Here you’ll find information focused on mental health, wellness, and guidance toward recovery. Sober Mommies was founded by Julie Maida as a judgement-free space for mothers seeking support beyond traditional drug and alcohol recovery methods, like 12-step programs. At Sober Mommies, they recognize that recovery looks different for everyone, and that it’s important to celebrate all efforts made.

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A friend who I love and respect had moved away from AA and into LifeRing. She was living proof that people leave AA and don’t necessarily drink. I asked her about LifeRing and she steered me to the website. I had ‘permission’ to craft my own programme . The only thing to do was not to drink or drug no matter what. Tiffany was a church-going sober success stories teenager who dreamed of becoming a missionary — then she became a heroin addict. According to the episode summary, the 19-year-old was raised in a strict, religious family. Tiffany wandered around Baltimore, looking for her next fix. At the same time, her family attempted to pray away her addiction, which they viewed as Beezlebub himself.

From years old I partied every night and weekend with marijuana and alcohol. Sometimes cocaine would find its way in there. The constant use of those substances with the lifestyle was my way of “coping” with reality. The pain and the hurt wasn’t going anywhere, it was only building each passing day of using.

The way Herren Wellness treated me with love and support when I really didn’t think I deserved it was something I needed, and I also needed a kick in the butt. I had a terrible relapse where everything fell apart. The people around me just had a look of disgust. I became a person that I never thought I would be. I played a lot of sports growing up, and I was successful at it.

I made that decision by choosing to get the implant and it literally changed everything. It changed my motivation towards life, money training. All this time I was unhappy and couldn’t figure out why. The implant is the answer to another world. The Naltrexone implant changed my life totally. Some days I feel good and others days down, my emotions were like a sea-saw. I became an alcoholic and drank to feel better. But when the alcohol was no longer in my system I felt exactly the same again.

It’s really easy to write off the big things and focus on the small things. And the more that I honor the value that I’m bringing to people’s lives, the easier it is for me to stop making bad decisions. It’s been very centering and very sobering — that’s the best word I can use. I paint this picture where I got sober and then my life was great. I did get sober and my life did get better because it was so low and dark. What it looks like for me is that I now have tools to be a normal, decent human being, which I wasn’t before. So sobriety for me is like a bridge back to a normal life. Caring less about yourself and caring more about helping others. Having some small impact on someone else’s life.

Josh appeared in Season 4 of “Intervention.” The 22-year-old had a food addiction resulting in him becoming morbidly obese. Josh was literally eating himself to death, tipping the scales at 546 lbs -– 360 lbs heavier than his “ideal weight.” Josh’s dad Rex also had a food addiction. His obesity had led to multiple health issues, including diabetes and numerous strokes . “I have hope, and I think here I will succeed. There’s no question,” he vowed. In a follow-up interview, Josh announced he’d lost 239 lbs. “I go to the gym now, five days a week,” he shared.

Being that AA/NA was my support group then. But now that I found LifeRing this time around I am eager to see what I can do for myself and maintain a sober lifestyle upon my release. I have been attending the Sunday Sunriser meeting here held by Mykel H. And he has encouraged me and inspires me to want to better myself. I will be released soon within the next few weeks so I know I will need the LifeRing support when I get out and would like some advice from you guys on the outside. After returning home, John got a job, married, became a dad, and bought a home. He’s maintained his sobriety and talks about addiction, substance abuse, and recovery.

The BioCorRx program I Got Sober offered did exactly that. Our son recently celebrated his six months sober anniversary, if that’s what you call it. A huge shift in his life is something we started to think we’d never see—we’re so grateful this program gave him a chance to slow down thanks to the implant. He’s discovering who he can really be without alcohol or drugs in his system with the help of his recovery coach and therapist. I can’t tell you how reading what I just wrote makes me feel. I lapsed after many years of sobriety and getting sober was much more than ‘a challenge’.

They may be more likely to suffer from anxiety and depress. To cope with these feelings and sensitivities, celebrities may be more likely to ‘self-medicate’ with drugs and alcohol. For some celebrities, this could mean that they go on to develop an addiction to drugs and alcohol. We feel its important to provide an outlet for sober people to share their recovery stories. It is also a great way for us to give back to the recovery community. Other treatment centers I went to were good, but the support my family got from Herren Wellness – from Chris and Heather in particular – was amazing.