ME

I need them today. It’s been two years since my brother died, I spent the first one drinking  to cope with the pain.Then my anxiety and panic attacks kicked in so I went cold turkey, and started taking my meds, antidepressants and Xanax. I post a lot about alternative treatments but the truth is I cannot live without medication yet. I’ ve been here before, I was “cured” for 5 years and started meditation and did yoga and it helped.  I hope I will  soon be able to start living without pills.
The bottom line is  I am seeking for an explanation or something that helps me understand what happens when you die. Why did my brother died? Wh did he have to suffer so many years? What is the point of this life? …
Yesterday we were about to have dinner with my husband and child, and I told him: “I do not know why but I a feel I am waiting for a call with bad news”. He told me not to think about it. Later I checked the hour on my phone and realized that the same day 2 years ago my sister called me to tell me my brother was in the hospital and to hurry up and go see him cause he was dying. It was sudden I have been with him two days ago, my last words were: “I’ll see you on Monday” and I kissed him. I never so him again and I never talked to him again.
He was 38 years old and battling with a brain tumor. I miss him everyday. I hope he rests in peace.

Is That All?

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Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life–the one that did not work–for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever. Regardless of worldly success or failure, regardless of pain or joy, regardless of sickness or health or even of death itself, a new life of endless possibilities can be lived if we are willing to continue our awakening, through the practice of the Twelve Steps

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Happy Birthday Soberistas.com!

My journey, from wine lover to sober and happy...

A year ago today I sat nervously in front of my laptop and watched the very first members of Soberistas sign up to the brand new social network site that was there to offer peer support to women with alcohol dependency issues. I had no idea what would happen, or whether we would attract any interest at all. I didn’t know if anybody would want to discuss their booze problem online with a bunch of strangers. Or indeed if it really was just me who had no off-switch, a catalogue of past booze-related horrors and a desire to pass the message on that life without alcohol can, actually, be brilliant.

We had about a hundred people sign up during our launch night, and that first small clan of Soberistas hovered nervously around the site waiting for somebody to post something or to write their thoughts down in the Chat Room. It…

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