{"id":1218,"date":"2025-06-30T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sober.ie\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:18:07","slug":"signing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sober.ie\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/signing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Signing Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing on this website has been a whirlwind. I\u2019ve brought up feelings and emotions I didn\u2019t know I have. Writing \u2018My Story\u2019 has definitely empowered me and I would recommend it to anyone. Even if you want to keep it to yourself, it\u2019s your story it is up to you what you do with it. I am hopeful that others will add their stories to this website to encourage a vibrant community of sobriety. I\u2019ve lost count of how many relapses I have had during this process of the website but as I\u2019ve stated this website will not be the fairytale ending people are used to reading. Addiction is cunning and baffling, recovery can be too. I hope I can relate to at least one person out there struggling with addiction, that for me would make all the relapses I have had worthwhile. I\u2019m signing off from writing for now. I am a one man showband. I need to develop other areas of the website. My next challenge is setting up an events calendar to make finding meetings accessible to everyone. Then I will work on resources such as residential treatment centres, addiction counsellors and more. I\u2019m building \u2018ARM\u2019 too. ARM will provide support for those looking to navigate through the website. I am not a medical professional but using ARM I will be able to point you in the right direction of trained professionals. I also have dreams of building the first AI driven support for those suffering from addiction too. If you have happened to stumble across this website I would just like to say thanks, it just goes to show that hard work can pay off. I wish you the best in your journey whether it be harm reduction, abstinence or all and none.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay safe,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conor.<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Writing on this website has been a whirlwind. I\u2019ve brought up feelings and emotions I didn\u2019t know I have. Writing \u2018My Story\u2019 has definitely empowered me and I would recommend it to anyone. Even if you want to keep it to yourself, it\u2019s your story it is up to you ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,60,52,65,61,51,66,50,67,63,21,53,69,62,64,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-addiction","category-cmathy","category-cuanmhuire","category-fastforward","category-flashback","category-homelessness","category-livetyping","category-livingsober","category-mentalhealth","category-mystory","category-ourstories","category-recreation","category-reflections","category-sponsored","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Signing Off - Sober.ie V1.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019ve brought up feelings and emotions I didn\u2019t know I have. 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