An article came out this week in the NY Times that was titled “The New Sobriety,” in which the subheading “every one is sober now, even if they drink a little?,” took on a life of it’s own, negatively impacting the views of the article.  While I do think the article and it’s attention is a net positive, I also think it was written by a man who is not sober and doesn’t quite understand what it means from a personal level like I or most other people in this space do.  I’ve been sober since 2008 and writing about it since 2012 on this blog. When I started out, there weren’t options for me l ..read more

What we put in our body affects how we feel. How we feel affects, and quite frankly is, our state of being aka consciousness, which is essentially our vibration. So, when we consume things that ultimately make us feel bad, we lower our state of being and when we lower our state, this lowers our vibration. It sounds woo-woo when you first hear it, but it actually makes a ton of sense. For example, let’s look at alcohol. Alcohol Is A Depressant  Ethanol is a psychoactive drug that affects the central nervous system causing us to slow down. This is why we are impaired and “under the ..read more