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2 Ways to Practice Being Yourself When You Feel Like Someone Else

2 Ways to Practice Being Yourself When You Feel Like Someone Else

by Amy Parrish | Feb 23, 2019 | complete truth, radical new approach, Sober Community, Unconventional Sobriety

One: Breathe. Breathing is this place where we tend to cheat ourselves: it’s almost like if you had access to your whole house, but you only lived in a third of it. Granted, you aren’t going to use every room in your house all the time, and there are rooms...
Radical New Approach

Radical New Approach

by Amy Parrish | Feb 20, 2019 | radical new approach, success and failure, survivor, Truth, Unconventional Sobriety

I imagine there’s something in all of us that believes that we’re unconventional, that although I may be like others in many ways, there are many ways that I am exactly just like me. Our day to day patterns usually benefit from a radical new approach, and...
It’s Really Not Okay

It’s Really Not Okay

by Amy Parrish | Feb 10, 2019 | complete truth, it's not okay, struggling alone, success and failure, Truth, Unconventional Sobriety

When I quit drinking I immediately noticed that I felt more. It felt so hard, like I was a rope being jerked through too quickly, burning me. But I wanted it, I wanted that feeling of how difficult it was because it told me how much it mattered that I quit drowning...
Runner Girl Part Three

Runner Girl Part Three

by Amy Parrish | Feb 6, 2019 | running, success and failure, Unconventional Sobriety

Running has always been something I was good at. Not good as in I’m fast and winning, good as in I will do it regularly and I like it. Running makes me feel powerful, capable. Unique. The way I love it is a different way than the way I love yoga. Yoga is a...
This is what long term recovery looks like, or 10 reasons you’re sober after all this time..

This is what long term recovery looks like, or 10 reasons you’re sober after all this time..

by Amy Parrish | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized, Unconventional Sobriety

10. You feel well almost all the time. You forget what being hungover feels like. You get sick and you feel like legitimate shit. Then you remember that this was something you felt like more than once a week. 9. Even when things are the worst suckity suck you still...

Ready to Fail

by Amy Parrish | Nov 18, 2018 | complete truth, success and failure, Unconventional Sobriety

I am a failure. I know it’s true. I have tried and failed at so many things. I didn’t finish college or roller skate very well. I still don’t know how to knit or play guitar. I fail on a daily basis- my phone sidetracks me, I eat things I say I...
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