Sober Salon

Recent Comments

• Bill: Sometimes a picture is worth ... well, you know .... Isn't the expression on the kitten's face priceless?...
• Amy: I wonder why it acceptable to comment on a skinny chicks weight, but never someone who is overweight??? I have always been skinny and people comment ...
• be: Even though the post is a picture with no text, this made my day. I have been swamping e-mails with a cousin discussing how are lives are so differen...
• JunkysWife: The way you handled that rough comment from you dad sounds so good. Setting boundaries with my parents and their unreasonable ideas about how I should...
• vicariousrising: I absolutely loved this book. I read it while in rehab myself, and so much of what she expressed rang true for me, even if I wasn't the party girl she...
• Syd: I'm glad that you are realizing that it's not what others say about us, it's how we feel about ourselves. It's a cheap shot but perhaps your dad doesn...
• Syd: I think that sharing my story is part of what I do in recovery. I am not anonymous to those I sponsor or at meetings. I share my experience, strength ...
• vicariousrising: I like Jade's analogy about feeling naked in the cold rain. It takes a lot to hold your head high with your truth when you know others will judge you....
• A. Miles: MPJ-LOL! The dog has not admitted she is powerless. She was however, spotted a mile from the house. This prompted us to spend even MORE time combing a...
• davka: Wow, I am having the same problems. More the post part I have been very open on my blog about who I am. I recently wrote an esssay which condensed m...
• gbauler: You are so right on! It's not the substance, behavior or lifestyle - it's the self-destructive disease. I drank, drugged and shoplifted. It was all...
• GentlePath: It really did matter to me what it was called. Sick people can recover. Bad people are just mistakes and (I thought) should just be removed. Being in ...
• Mama MPJ: Glad the date went well. And that either way, you're ok. :)...
• Mama MPJ: Did the dog ever find her way home? Or is she still doing research for her first step? :)...
• Jade: I remember when my own walls crumbled in my life - when the lie that I'd upheld about my strength, my will, my character, all fell down around me in h...