Once I got sober again, I’d like to say my behavior towards men was completely different, that I only had sex when I was one hundred percent sure I wanted to, that I didn’t judge and hate.
Tag: memoir
Music and Emotion: How Songs Help Us Grieve and Heal
Music can express how we feel when our grief renders us speechless.
But I’m Depressed, Not Addicted
I was there to treat my depression. I couldn’t tell the truth. I couldn’t say I got smashed almost every night, whiskey whistling through my veins, thinning my blood and seeping into my brain.
The Magic and the Tragic: Falling in Love in Recovery
I wondered if the bitter taste of the endings would overpower all the other memories of my first sober loves.
Moby on Sobriety: "We Can't Hold On to Crazy, Magical Thinking"
A new memoir by music producer and artist Moby looks back on the highs and lows of his substance use.
Learning How to Love and Be Loved: An Interview with Eva Hagberg Fisher
I think illness was the great wind that just blew through my life and cleared away a lot of the resistance that I had to being vulnerable, by making my need to ask for help a literally life and death decision.
Slipknot’s Corey Taylor Talks Social Media Addiction In New Book
The singer reveals his battle with social media and addiction in his new book. Corey Taylor, the lead singer of Slipknot, has been very open with the public about his struggles with addiction, and in his next book, he’ll be confessing an addiction to social media. As Loudwire reports, Taylor will examine the link between… Continue reading Slipknot’s Corey Taylor Talks Social Media Addiction In New Book
The Eternal Holiday of the Alcoholic
When you drink constantly, you become numb, slipping down into a sub-life, a waking coma. You become a chaotic ghost that exists almost at one step removed from everything else. The following is an excerpt from Jolly Lad – The Expanded North American Edition, published this month by MIT Press and available here. After I… Continue reading The Eternal Holiday of the Alcoholic
So You Want to Write About Addicts
At its best, addict lit satiates our quintessential human yearning for stories that may lead to salvation. We want warm fuzzies. We want sweet, sweet, redemption. We started each morning of residential treatment with burned muffins, a house meeting, and introductions. “My name is Tom and I’m a junkie here on vacation. My goal today… Continue reading So You Want to Write About Addicts