#soberperspective

I’ve been musing about recovery and how, perhaps it follows the template set by Jesus’s resurrection two millennia ago (I’m a non church going Christian, fyi).  Jesus had been in the desert for 40 days, praying and preparing, knowingly, for his death.  He was tempted many times by the devil, but pushed away wealth, power and status, in favour of being true to himself and the greater, eternal and…

There is no Truth

When I was drunk, and in my early years of sobriety, I believed wholeheartedly in ‘the truth’.

Now, I’m not so sure.

The problem with the word ‘truth’ is that there are as many truths as there are people, because truth, to my mind, is a matter of perspective.

I now prefer to deal with fact as opposed to opinion.

Learning how to be a sober person has been one of the most challenging…