‎The Sober Witch Life: Sunshine’s Guide to a Mystical Recovery on Apple Podcasts

Kindly fill out our contact form and we will get back to you within a few business days to see if we can help. Sunshine is a Psychic Medium, Soul Healer, Spiritual Advisor, High Priestess, Reiki Master, Recovering Alcoholic and Creatrix of Illuminate, The Unschool of Witchcraft. This podcast will teach you how to tap into your power and become the badass powerful witch that you are. In her spare time, you will find Sunshine dancing, cooking, painting, and hanging out with her five kitties in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Here are four life setbacks which can lead to relapse if we do not have recovery tools.

• Feeling guilty or ashamed of past behavior or actions during active addiction is natural and healthy.
• Those in active addiction cannot be discriminated against; we in active recovery cannot afford to stay cloaked in anonymity or confidentiality.

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But we have to know how and when to use the tools properly, which requires practice. We gain this practice by working the 12 steps or taking other constructive actions in our recovery pathway well before a triggering event occurs. She now runs an online community called The Sober Club that offers in-person retreats and workshops focused on well-being. « The social life we imagine we’re having with alcohol isn’t always the reality, » she said. Each one aims to help people feel confident or relaxed, where alcohol would have previously played a role, Millie explained. After giving up alcohol in January, the way that I socialise has slowly started to change.

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Many 12-step programs suggest that sobriety means total abstinence—never using the substance ever again. In the fall of 2018, Hunter Biden moved back to the East Coast after months of despairing drug abuse in California. At one point that summer, his uncle, James Biden, had hauled him out of a hotel room and placed him in a rehab center sober life before he moved in with a sobriety coach in the hills over Los Angeles. Republicans going after Hunter Biden for his addiction in this way is a dangerous game. More people than you think are affected by alcoholism and addiction, and shaming the family of the addict is neither productive nor grounded in any basis of efficacy.

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• Individual reasons for becoming sober range from everything from wanting more energy, to having contraindicated medications – such as Adderall and alcohol.
• We do not minimize the horror or sadness of what happened, but we also do not use it as a reason to relapse.
• SELF does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
• Although it may seem challenging, even impossible, to make changes once alcohol becomes intertwined with many aspects of one’s life, breaking free is possible.
• One of our caring intake coordinators will be happy to discuss your specific situation and a comprehensive treatment plan to address both the addiction and any co-occurring mental health disorders.
• Get productivity, intentional living and self-care tips so you can go from “busy” to “present” and show up as your best self.
• Many sober living homes are connected with local therapy groups, counseling services, and job training programs.

Most people who make their way into recovery have left a lot of pain and suffering in their wake. Feeling guilty or ashamed of past behavior or actions during active addiction is natural and healthy. Sobriety means not being under the influence of a substance. However, the word is often used in different ways in different contexts.

• Another critical aspect is the transformation of social dynamics.
• These elements set the framework for a positive recovery journey and improve quality of life.

What does full sobriety mean?

Control your environment

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