Winter is brutal, for a lot of people. But for a lot of us, it can be worse. About 5% of Americans are affected by Seasonal Affective Disorder and it can be debilitating. Add in the holidays and you have the perfect conditions for stress as well. I think that’s…

How AF is helping me stay away from alcohol. There is one thing that I do miss from my drinking days, and it isn’t even getting drunk. What I missed was the warm feeling from liquor. It completed the drink for me, and felt like it even balanced it out…

Did I make the biggest mistake of my life? Since getting diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder about two to three years ago, it’s been a roller coaster of finding the right medications and therapy to get me to a stable point in my life. And it’s caused me to reflect on…

When I wrote a piece of what sobriety meant for me, it made me think about my most recent relationship. How did sobriety affect my last relationship? This might have a better title if I said “How sobriety might have caused me to break up with my boyfriend of six…

After almost 4 years, it really depends. I was tested a couple of weekends ago. Here I was waiting to meet a new friend so while I waited for them, I walked up and down the strip. …

2022 has been my year of making big changes. So what exactly do I mean by this year being the year of the cringe? In this case, I’m referring to the definition of something that is super awkward or even embarrassing. I declared at the start of this year that…

It’s all going to be okay. To Kuma, You’ve had quite the life, haven’t you? Abandoned with your siblings at a young age, you were taken in by a few different people until you ended up with me. I remember the first day I brought you home because my cats…

I am everything younger me would have hated. When you were young, did you get this idea in your head about what an adult is? I thought thirty was old, and that any useful thing I would do or have done would have been in my very early twenties. …

And why I’ll never go back to drinking. I’ve been sober for long enough that I almost don’t remember the days where I couldn’t exist without a few beers every day. The key word here is almost. …