Welcome! As part of celebrating and growing the Sober App Substack community, this periodic feature showcases recent contributors. Check out their bios and publications below, find their guest posts on the homepage, and share your own sober publication or say hello in the comments.
is a non-binary baker, writer/poet, and recovering addict in Southern Illinois. They are the author of , a Substack newsletter, and Post-Eclipse: A Queer Home (2024), a chapbook of poems published and available at Bottlecap Press. is a mother, stepmother, and advocate for normalizing the discussion of alcoholism among strong, smart women. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho in 2013, and now makes a living selling tree work. Kristen writes about sobriety and parenting in her newsletter: . lives in Colorado with her husband and French Bulldog, Buddy. Laura runs a bakery in the Boulder area with three locations. She is also a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and hopeless optimist., a gay and sober essayist from Southern California, explores the addictive aspects of the human experience. Her work has appeared in The Gay and Lesbian Review and Dream Boy Book Club. Her second prose chapbook, Love You More Than Wine, is out with Bottlecap Press. For more about her work, follow her on social media @lingod, and find her newsletter at: . is the author of On the Edge of Shattered. She hosted The Weekend Sober Podcast, is the head writer for season 2 of the narrative podcast Fcking Sober: The First 90 Days, and founded the Boston-based social club Sober in the Suburbs. She lives with her husband and three kids in Needham, MA, and writes about addiction, parenting, and recovery in her newsletter: . is a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine and writer sharing heart-sourced, no-bullsh*t insights on addiction, sobriety, and holistic wellness. She manages Sober App Substack alongside writing her own newsletter: , feeding your hunger for a more beautiful, more nourishing life. is a writer, sober human, and cold-water swimmer living in Austin, Texas. She navigates the beauty and devastation of being human by believing we are all connected and that more love is always the answer. Find her newsletter at: . left a 29-year career in pharmaceuticals to start a healing and helping practice that includes spiritual guidance sessions, astrology, hypnosis, and psychic mediumship. She writes the newsletter and is the host of the podcast Maria Luz’s Conscious Curiosities. Through these creative projects, Maria shares hope for living authentically and empowers people with the wisdom of astrology and their own unique energy. is the creator of the newsletter and podcast, platforms dedicated to helping individuals break free from porn addiction and other destructive behaviors. Focusing on healing generational trauma and the damaging aftermath of trying to medicate it, Mac shares personal stories of overcoming addiction and building new traditions of connection. Mac also supports others in their recovery journey through coaching, writing, a weekly Break Free Newsletter, and the 52 Weeks of Freedom Series, which fosters resilience, self-awareness, and long-term healing. is an Energetic Healer, Self-Love/Self-Reclamation Coach, and Podcast Host at . Jamie believes in the healing power of community, self-love, and self-reclamation as essential pillars in recovery.Gordon Szyszko lives in Minneapolis with his girlfriend, Carmen, and works as a truck driver. He enjoys spending time outdoors, hunting for agates on the North Shore of Lake Superior, making crafts, and painting. Gordon has a 21-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter who live nearby. You can find him on Facebook and Instagram.
’s work has appeared in Memoir Land, BOMB, LARB, Guernica, Proximity, Fatal Flaw, Yoga Journal, and more. She is the founding editor of The Rumpus Original Column: Voices On Addiction and an LCSW. You can find her newsletter at: There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was).
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