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Sober Away From Home
I am originally from Atlanta, GA and went to treatment back in 2007 at Sierra Tucson in Arizona. I was there for about 60 days and met my next boyfriend who was from L.A. I have always wanted to live in California, so I decided to go to after-care in L.A. I went to a place in Venice that was a cross between after-care and a sober living. It provided extra structure and I was able to see my boyfriend on weekends. I had also heard that Southern California was a great place to live sober and there were tons of young people in recovery. Needless to say, the relationship didn’t last, but I am still in L.A. I can’t say whether living here has made a difference in my … Read entire article »
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Ethics and Recovery
I hit the one week mark without meds. All week I had felt like the Wellbutrin was still trickling through my system. On the eighth day, I finally came down from it and felt the blahs. My biggest problem since my last drink back on November 23, 2009 is my energy level. I have been SO exhausted all the time. Even though I am able to push through my day which always starts with a meeting at 7am, I feel an underlying fatigue. I am really active and exercise and do yoga 6 days a week. I finally quit drinking and drugging, so why am I so exhausted? Friends with more time have said that my body just needs to catch up from the self-inflicted abuse of the past 15 years. The … Read entire article »
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Love or Lack Thereof in Early Recovery
I have 114 days in Recovery again, and it’s the first time that I am trying to stay away from romantic relationships. The longest I’ve ever stayed sober was five months and I had a boyfriend the whole time. We met in treatment, of course, and were completely enmeshed. I see now that I completely neglected to build a foundation for my program and made my boyfriend my Higher Power. I had heard all the warnings but I had to do the research and experience the relationship for myself. Because I had no relationship with a real Higher Power, I ended up drinking again at the five month mark. The relationship was doomed anyway, because he had two kids from previous marriages. I’m not really a kids person and hated … Read entire article »
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Meds and Recovery
Today will be my 82nd day in Recovery, and I completely stopped my meds five days ago. My first week getting sober, my Psychiatrist started me on Topomax for mood swings. Over the last five years, my attempts to get sober have always been characterized by massive mood swings that fluctuate like a ten-ton pendulum. This time was no different. I was detoxing from alcohol and felt angry and like my blood was literally boiling. The Topomax took the edge off and seemed to help. I was on an extremely low dose as I have always been hypersensitive to medication and pills of any kind. It was December and a terribly depressing time. My older brother, who was born on December … Read entire article »
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