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Blogs & Articles you Should Read When You Get Sober 🥸
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items Getting sober is just the first step to taking your life back. This is a collection of articles that I have enjoyed and that have added to my sober journey. Arm yourself with knowledge about addiction, yourself and the tools and practices you can use...
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Meditation
Self-love & Self-esteem are the foundation of a abundant life in sobriety.
Stretching and exercising is a must to heal your body after you get sober
Stress management for successful sobriety
Find your inner peace in sobriety
Mindfulness in sobriety
Meditation
Learn more about the origins of meditations and different practices. If one style of practice doesn't work for you, try a new one till you find a practice that resonates with you and gives you peace.
It's found it interesting learning more about the history of meditation. I find meditation be a key tool in my sober strategy for finding calm when I am struggling and connecting to myself in a deeper level.
The History of Meditation: Its Origins & Timeline
I struggled with my self esteem and self in general after getting sober. I was ashamed of my actions and was working on processing them but still needed to love myself for it to work. Loving Kindness meditations were a first step to finding love and ...
What Is Loving Kindness Meditation? (Incl. 4 Metta Scripts)
Compassion for yourself is important in your recovery and this meditation guides you to finding compassion for yourself despite past actions. You aren’t that same person anymore. You are growing.
What is Compassion Meditation? (+ Mantras and Scripts)
Mindfulness shows you the world around you from a different perspective than the one you had when your addiction was active. This type of meditation is also good for people with migraines and insomnia.
Mindfulness Meditation: 22+ Best Videos & Scripts (+ PDF)
This article is a perfect jumping off point for beginners to meditation. Learn different types of meditation and their benefits to your mind, body and spirit.
30 Meditation Exercises and Activities to Practice Today
If you are new to meditation and not sure what you are doing, this 10 minute meditation for beginners will be perfect for you. It walks you through a meditation and tells you everything you should be doing.
10-Minute Meditation For Beginners
Self-love & Self-esteem are the foundation of a abundant life in sobriety.
When you love yourself, you will make the tough changes to better your life because you know you deserve better and are worth more. Loving yourself first isn't selfish, it's healthy.
Self-esteem is a reflection on how we see ourselves and our sense of worth. After getting sober it is unsurprising low and a first step to rebuilding your life.
Self-Esteem Research: 20 Most Fascinating Findings
This is a great jumping off point in your search of self esteem self help books. The list is extensive and includes several different formats from print, to digital, to audio. This will be one good rabbit hole.
27 Books to Improve Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, and Self-Image
Self-acceptance involves taking a compassionate and more loving stance toward ourselves and accepting all parts of the self: the good, the bad… even the ugly
16 Self-Acceptance Exercises & Activities for Adults
This article will look at the ways we can best express our gratitude, the benefits of expressing the gratitude we feel towards others, and how you can practice the act of gratitude whilst learning to appreciate the positive emotions that accompany it...
How to Express Gratitude to Others: 19 Examples & Ideas
This is a great video giving you actionable steps to better your self esteem and love yourself after addiction.
3 Steps To Rebuilding Self-Esteem in Early Recovery
Through self empowerment you gain control of your life.
Discovering Self-Empowerment: 13 Methods to Foster It
Stretching and exercising is a must to heal your body after you get sober
Stretching and exercise is good for everyone but especially for those of us recovering from beating ourselves up with alcohol
Yoga is a great way to get your body moving again and back in shape once you get sober. I was overweight and unhealthy when I quit drinking. I am now in the best shape of my adult life.
6 Feel-Good Stretches to Help You Unwind and Recharge
I am sitting at my computer a lot and because of it my Lowe back can get sore and achy. Do these stretches to help relieve the pain and relax your muscles.
15 Simple Stretches for Your Tight, Achy Back
Everybody poops. When you first get sober it can be hard to go while your body adjusts to zero alcohol. Use these stretches to help relieve any pain and keep things moving.
8 Yoga Poses That’ll Help You Poop (After Class, Hopefully)
Stress management for successful sobriety
Stress and anxiety are silent killers for your sober life. By learning to manage these overwhelming emotions, you can grow the tools needed to find peace amidst the chaos life can throw at us.
Stress can come out of nowhere and hit you when you are down. Learn breathing skills to calm your nervous system down and restore balance back to your body.
7 Stress-Relief Breathing Exercises for Calming Your Mind
Find your inner peace in sobriety
Finding inner peace in sobriety allows you to grow your self awareness confidence to live your life at the highest level.
This article will teach you what inner peace and happiness actual is, the difference between the two and exercises the help you find more of both. With peace and happiness in your life, leaving alcohol behind will be something you are accepting of be...
How to Find Inner Peace and Happiness (Incl. Mantras)
Mindfulness in sobriety
When you are aware and present in your life, your body and your emotions you will build self awareness that gives you the knowledge to find your true purpose.
Mindfulness is the connecting bridge between our mind and the present moment.
It is the art of staying aware of what is happening right now, what we are thinking about this very moment, and how we are feeling at present.
The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)
Mindfulness isn't just about being aware of your present self. This practice can have numerous healing qualities for your physical and mental health. Anxiety, stress relief, and better sleep are just a few of the benefits of a mindfulness practice. S...
23 Amazing Health Benefits of Mindfulness for Body and Brain
A highly curated list of the best mindfulness quotes to uplift and support your sobriety journey. Don’t sleep on this list and add these quotes to your collection for use later.
49 Profound Mindfulness Quotes to Inspire Your Practice
This is the best article to find a new podcast on mindfulness to listen to. You are what you listen to so what are you learning from a podcast today?
20 Best Mindfulness Meditation Podcasts to Enjoy
The history and origins of mindfulness are from several different religious sources and moved from east to west. Use the worksheets attached to this article to learn more about your level of mindfulness. My daily mindfulness practices build my awaren...
The History and Origins Mindfulness - PositivePsychology.com
Worksheets to add to your daily mindfulness practice.
37 Free Printable Mindfulness Worksheets & Exercises
Learn more about mindful yoga
What is Mindful Yoga? 4 Poses + Yoga Retreats
Gratitude for the life you are building because you chose sobriety for yourself
Be positively grateful everyday ❤️
Do wonder how you can find the positive when everything seems so bleak? Learn how to identify the positive when it seems there is nothing to be grateful for. You will also gain knowledge on the importance of gratitude, how to show it to others, and s...
What is Gratitude and Why is It So Important?
Self compassion for your new sober life
“We’re often pretty good at demonstrating compassion for others, but not so much for the self. Self-compassion can be an incredibly tricky process to fully adopt. Where mindfulness can feel like self-care, self-compassion can often be mixed up with f...
What is Mindful Self-Compassion? (Incl. Exercises + PDF)
Sobriety isn't boring, your life is if you aren't doing anything with it
The key to life sober is to fill it with things and people you love. To find your purpose and what sets your soul on fire. By living our best life sober, we give our addiction the finger 🖕🏻
A great list to get your creative juices flowing on things to do to fill your time that your aren’t drinking and enhance your life by finding activities and things that you thrive at.
56 Booze-Free Things to Do in Spring — A Sober Girls Guide
Navigating motherhood and sobriety
Sobriety is hard already but adding motherhood makes it an even greater challenge since it isn't just you. These articles will give insight and guidance into other mothers experiences with their children and navigating sobriety.
I had no idea what to say to my daughter when I went to treatment. It happened so fast and she was so young that the first time I went she was told by someone else. When I went again I was able to explain it to her but I know it was a difficult conve...
Mommy's Going to Treatment - What to Say to the Kids
The meat and potatoes of getting sober - Must Read
These are the articles that can shed some light on the reality of what to expect when you get sober. From the first 24 hours to 1 year. Everyone's journey is different, but understanding more about what will happen can make the decision to get sober ...
Understand what is happening to you physically and emotionally after you get sober. This article goes over a timeline from 24 hours to 1 year of sobriety. I research everything and this article gave me valuable insights on what I should expect from g...
Alcohol Addiction Recovery Timeline
Sobriety is hard but if you have a plan and understand what to expect, navigating this new sober path can be a bit easier. This article has 13 spot on tips to help you stay sober.
How to Stay Sober: 13 Tips for Your Recovery
If you are curious about sobriety and what it could mean for your life, this is a great article for the sober curious.
What Does It Mean to Be Sober Curious?
If alcohol is causing challenges in your life and you are wondering about alcohol use disorder, this article goes into depth about the disorder and shares links to online assessments.
Online Tests That Can Help Determine If You Have a Drinking Problem
Triggers are going to happen. It's how you prepare for them that matters.
5 Relapse Triggers and How to Avoid Them
Cognitive Distortions
We falsely create assumptions about things that have no basis for truth.
Cognitive Distortions: 22 Examples & Worksheets (& PDF)
Intuition
Learn to hone your intuition
Intuition Training: 5 Exercises to Strengthen Intuition
Understanding your Intuition
What Is Intuition and Why Is It Important? 5 Examples
Inner Child
Healing your inner child goes to the roots of the trauma that causes you to drink too much in the first place.
Inner Child Healing: 35 Practical Tools for Growing Beyond Your Past
Positivity
Postitivity workseets and exorcises. A good starting point.
20 Positive Psychotherapy Exercises, Sessions and Worksheets
Working through your mental blocks.
19 Practical Positive Psychology Worksheets & Activities