The shackles and chains softly rattle Constraints so quiet yet debilitatingly strong. My soul hums a silent and haunting song, A war cry defenseless and fortified, the internal battle. Thoughts of darkness have colonized my mind, sending armies of doubt to chip away hope. Another wall ... Read More
Spirituality
Building Your Practice from the Ground Up
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? If you’re like most people, you may have to think for a second to remember what they were. There are so many jokes about resolutions because the universal human tendency is to drop them. We now know from scientific research that a lot of that has to do ... Read More
Who Will Love Me
I held a lover once in my hands Love I thought that’d last, untouched by Time’s sands. To be loved by another, was all I thought I ever wished for, Naivety crept in my heart, and I knew soon I’d close the door, For both I and my lover lost the love that once or never bonded us. I had ... Read More
Whose Thoughts Are These? Addiction, Recovery and Buddhism
When I was in my freshman year in college, I had a professor of English who liked to start the first class of the semester with the question, “What are the books that changed your life?” Not “What books did you enjoy, or really love,” but “changed your life.” Even as a voracious reader, it took some ... Read More
A WINTER WORLD OF HOLIDAYS
Hanukkah Sameach! Merry Christmas! Habari Gani! Happy Holidays! However we say it—and there are many different ways—the idea of “happy” combined with “holidays” is a very, very old one. But in our consumer-driven culture, the holidays come at us so early, fast and hard that by the time they ... Read More
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve, the night we hope all may be home, yet even on holidays there are those who wander and roam. But on this night of nights, even those with nowhere to go, find their own kind of special and new home. Light snow began to fall from the sky and coat the world with a soft diamond dust. ... Read More
Tiffany Jenkins is living proof that life after addiction IS possible
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THANKFULNESS
There’s no getting around it: thankfulness is good for us. Damn! I don’t know about you, but I definitely have days when I just don’t feel all that thankful or grateful, when the guy when sits next to me on the bus drips water all over my previously dry pants, a favorite store is unexpectedly out ... Read More
Meditation Can Help With Sobriety
Soberocity's Alex S talks about how meditation has helped him cope with life's struggles. ... Read More
What Are You Thankful For?
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers! This past year has been an incredible journey. We officially launched the blog in March and the site in February and have some much in the pipeline for 2019! According to Carla Vista, Soberocity has been named one of the Top 30 Sober Blogs of the year! We ... Read More
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