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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Thank you for your beautiful contributions, everyone! ❤️

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Rosemary Writes & Recovers 🌹's avatar

Thank you for hosting this generous loving space in which we can each write, heal, connect and have the opportunity to help others heal. 🙏

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Grateful for your presence here, Rosemary! 🙏

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Gabriel Solomon's avatar

Thank you so much for the shout out!

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

You’re so welcome, Gabriel. Thank you for your writing and work in the world!

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Rosemary Writes & Recovers 🌹's avatar

Thank you, Dana. I’m humbled by the company I’m in here. Grateful to be sober. Grateful to be here. Grateful for sober community 🙏

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

All the hearts to you, Rosemary!

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Richard's avatar

I would like to tell my story. I've been clean and sober for 2 years now, but have been in and around the rooms for 40 years. How do I do this?

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Hey Richard, If you’d like me to send submission guidelines, please email me at: hello@danaleighlyons.com Congrats on your sobriety!

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Shana Hormann's avatar

Thank you, Dana. I am co-facilitating a 8-week group that starts April 3: Healing from within, a support group for women survivors of childhood sexual trauma. Sobriety gives us the foundation to shine light on shadows. Holding you with courage, Shana

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Rosemary Writes & Recovers 🌹's avatar

Thank you for sharing this and the important work you’re doing. I am going to share this with someone I love who may or may not choose to join your support group. I love that you are offering it. 💔

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Thank you for your beautiful, important work in the world, Shana!

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Greg (OurNightSky.Us)'s avatar

How have I not found this place sooner? I am so happy to see this substack. I am Greg. I have been sober for 2 years and 10 months, but who is counting? I am now writing and using my photography of the night sky to find peace and grace, forgiveness, and comfort. I am so glad to be here and engage with all who are here and need encouragement. Thanks for letting me share, and I hope to share more as a writer.

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Welcome, Greg! So glad you’re here, and what a beautiful practice for finding peace, grace, forgiveness, and comfort. Feel free to reach out about contributing as a writer - we’re always looking for new contributors!

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Caroline Beidler, MSW's avatar

Love this community and the sharing of resources 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Grateful for your presence here, Caroline! 🙏🏼

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Molly Moynahan's avatar

I have a memoir on The Teachers Way chronicling my getting sober in 1984 and my life afterwards,

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

I imagine that, in some ways, getting sober was quite different back then. Thank you for sharing, Molly!

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Appreciate this post and Sober App Dana! Greetings to my fellow writers and sojourners! I’ll be checking out your essays!

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Heart-sourced appreciation for you, Kelly!

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Paul's avatar

Replacing bad habits with good habits keeps us sober. Highly recommend starting each day checking this app and reading a daily message from Sober Not Just Dry, 365 Daily Messages for Alcoholism and Addiction Sobriety and Joy. Get it here: https://a.co/d/hH0cvZf I love seeing the book right by my computer. I can't help but pick it up and read the daily message. The cover with the author (who created the Sober App which used to be called SoberTool) holding his beloved puppy always draws me in. The messages, much like the I Ching, are always relevant to exactly what my brain is puzzled about in that moment.

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Thanks for sharing, Paul!

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Kimberly Kearns's avatar

I am so grateful to be a part of this compassionate group of writers in such a supportive community. Thank you, Dana, for helping to creative a safe space for us all to congregate and grow together. 🩷

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Thank you so much for your presence here, Kimberly! 🩷

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Elizabeth Austin's avatar

So grateful to be a part of this community. To everyone who shared and continues to share their stories, please know that you gave me the courage to share mine. Thank you.

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Very grateful for your presence here and beautiful writing, Elizabeth. 🙏

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Liz Mackie's avatar

I'm not a writer..dabbled in some poetry which I believed helped me through being sober plus got a lot of pent up stuff out...its as if I got to a place where the worst came out then I couldn't write no more...now I paint but love reading on this sober app. Ty All

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

Thank you for being here, Liz!

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Thanks for your contribution and work in the world, Nick!

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