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Surviving Riptides

So I'm floating peacefully and playing in the waves just off the beach in the great...


How I finally started recovery

This story was shared by a SoberTool user on: September 20, 2016 I was "in and...


If you walk 25 miles into the woods, you need to walk 25 miles out of the woods.

Don't expect life to be perfect just because you stopped using.  There will be consequences...


Look back but don't stare

It's good to remember the consequences from our active addiction but it's bad to...


My problems of today are beyond my dreams of yesterday

A SoberTool User told me the following: "I live in a house with my wife. My problems...


Peel away the onion skin

We become truly sober when we do not fear being vulnerable, when we drop the false...


Ain't no saint without a past, ain't no sinner without a future. - Saint Augustine

Don't give up hope - even if you have done worse things than you can imagine. It...


What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it's supposed to be

Life always turns out differently than we picture. Two kids, two TV's, two computers,...


"Everything is Broken" - Bob Dylan

Say "Everything is broken and that's O.K." when you are discouraged about things...


Sometimes it takes a storm to see how much time has been wasted worrying about the squalls.

The pandemic of 2020! The Great Famine of 1845! The Great Depressions of 1929 and...