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Share Your Story: Trust me, this is one of the most empowering things I have ever done.
Check Out Our Resources: From proven tools for sobriety to treatment centres, find it all here.
Find Professional Councillors: Listings of available councillors and addiction specific councillors too.
Find Residential Treatments: For those whom believe they cannot recover in the community.
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We try our best to be honest within our community. To give and achieve productive feedback to others.
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We try to live by strong moral principles. This is a space where you can be yourself and help others.
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We try to avoid wilfulness. We are willing to help others in their journey to sobriety and are willing to take feedback from others.
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We respect one’s right to privacy. All of our articles and meetings can be created as anonymous.
Openness
We are open to trying new things that may have discouraged sobriety in the past. We are open to chatting, meeting and reading.
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We have an ability to understand where other’s are coming from. We ‘Put Ourselves In Their Shoes’
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We encourage connection a lot within our community. We encourage all to attend meetings. Be it AA, CA, GA, NA, Smart Recovery or Life Ring. We have an all or none approach to meetings. As a friend Kieran once said to me: ‘Any meeting is better than no meeting’. We aim to facilitate both online and offline meetings.
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“Mental Tsunamis” (Live Typing)
Good morning, It’s Thursday, it’s good to be alive, it’s even better to be sober. Today is my three week anniversary. I am three weeks without a drink. I also haven’t self-medicated or had a gamble. One of my old ‘acquaintances’ who has been in a relationship with my doorbell has been sent to prison. Slowly my anxiety is starting to subside. Usually I go through a honeymoon period getting sober but with everything that has been going on this time it has been tough. I need to remind myself of how tough daily life is. I'm not sure if there is another recovery in me. I’ve started getting on my knees and praying for help too. This is not for the religious angle rather than me commiting to how powerless I am over my addictions. I did ‘Recovery […]
Smart Recovery and I (I will be quoting from their literature a lot)
Smart Recovery defines itself as a ‘Self Empowerment’ tool. A lot of us (me included) need to take back some control and self-discipline in our lives. We also need to take responsibility for our actions and choices. Smart helps with all this, it is a four point programme. One of the points in ‘Building & Maintaining Motivation’. Today I am motivated by building this community and also being a disciple to my family. Areas Smart looks at include values, I’m yet to see someone who values their addiction yet it’s the first place a lot of us run to. Lately I have gotten a bit better at asking for help, I hope this is a trend I continue. Other points of the programme include ‘Coping With Urges’, ‘Managing Thoughts, Feelings & Behaviours’ and ‘Living a Balanced Life’. Smart Recovery meetings […]
Meet, Meet, Meet & Share (Live Typing)
It's Tuesday, my morning is off to a good start. Nobody has been to my door in three days and my anxiousness feels like it's turning a corner. Yet I still feel like I need to stay on guard and protect my castle for now. This week is RAG week in Galway, a week of celebration, fundraising and general shenanigans that come with students living in Galway. There was a time this was my favourite week of the year, I’d be out picking drinks up off the street from 10.30 until I was either arrested or brought to hospital. Donegal Tuesday is one of Ireland’s greatest piss-ups. This year will be a paradox to previous years. I’ll attend my Relapse Prevention Group online and I’ll also attend Galway Recovery College online provided I have the courage to turn my lights […]
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As above we want all content to be equally available to contributors and non-contributors. Our entire website is a special feature and available to all. From homeless to housed and from sober to in addiction.
Think ‘Samaritans for addicts’. I call it ARM. Addict Relationship Management. Someday the dream is to offer live chat, telephone and e-mail support to those suffering with the disease of alcoholism, compulsive gambling and drug misuse.
All our articles are written without the use of AI. In fact, most of the articles on this website were hand written in Cuan Mhuire Athy. I then transcribed them for the website. ARM will have parts of it that will run off AI. Think AI for Sobriety, after weeks of research and development we now plan on launching a Sober.ie AI tool. We like to call him Damien. Damien will dish out advice 24/7 on our website through the Live Chat. Where needed he will direct you to a real life persons to assist. We will guide you through our website and offer suggestions to help you in your sobriety. We are not trained professionals however, all we can offer is positive directions throughout our website to assist in sobriety or recovery.
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