Sentences with phrase «about getting sober»

I hate recovery memoirs and nobody's going to want to hear about bad situations that I created through a series of poor decisions, and then my fancy little feelings about getting sober and putting my life back together.»

If she doesn't believe in God why is she making such a big deal about getting sober without Him?

Not exact matches

Sure, people can say you violate your anonymity, or our traditions about publicity, etc. but I also know there may be some who need to hear your message where it will give them the courage to try this (hard, as you said) way of getting sober.

I wrote about two of the most well known approaches to getting and saying sober here.

An active alcoholic — that was me — who wants to get sober but can't, and who is coming to believe that every good thing she once thought about God is a lie, is in a scary place.

But what about this - if you never sober up, you never get a hangover.

Kitchen's I Was a Pagan was a very popular book about the time Bill Wilson was getting sober.

2nd, the article wasn't even about drug abuse, it was about atheists trying to get sober, and struggling.

Because we typically get over-emotional about anything involving money, we both grew sober and quiet.

Implicit biblical support for democracy does not come from happy idealism about every man's worth or his capacity for sound judgment, rather, it flows from sober realism about every man's tendency to sin against his neighbor if he can get away with it.

It isn't even about God... what this writer who «sobered up» without God doesn't get is that in AA (which incidentally she, by virtue of writing her article is in direct conflict with one of the Twelve Traditions of AA) it clearly says «as we understood Him» — your Higher Power can be your dog, as long as you realize you aren't running the show... lest we forget that our best «thinking» got us there...

That was when I was 20, I wouldn't get sober for 14 more years but I still felt bad about it for many years in sobriety.

It was different... than what we heard at the State of the State last year, but we just have to be very sober about the fact that budget documents are really where the rubber hits the road and we got ta see that.»

For your money, you'll get a sober view of what life in Britain is going be like in about 20 years» time.

Some people think that these continual reminders about how important it is to get rid of excess pounds will keep us motivated to stay on a diet or put in our daily gym time, but the reality is sobering.

After listening to eco-warrior Paul Hawken share how we can affect climate change; actor, activist, and best - seller Hill Harper make an important statement about political divisiveness; best - seller Kate Fagan discuss suicide in athletes; and Lisa Merkle give a sobering reminder that yogis get cancer too in the first studio session of the day, I was ready to process all that I'd taken in — and, of course, refuel my body for the afternoon.

We get images of lurid strip clubs, where one of the Enron executives spent his billions of loot, and we also see sober, intelligent investigative reporters telling us about mark - to - market accounting and stock options.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

Setting it evocatively in George W Bush's America of the early 2000s, hardly a rosy age for American politics or mass nostalgia, courts a kind of bittersweet nostalgia that's hitting many right in the tear ducts: soft but sober, it's a film about how bad things were before we knew how bad they were going to get.

Forget about Rachel getting married, Kym's getting sober.

For a big budget movie about a lone astronaut who gets stranded on Mars, the spacesuits in The Martian are surprisingly sober in terms of design.

As written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (The Chronicles of Narnia, You Kill Me is a surprisingly resonant examination of getting sober, made amusing by the assassin's increasing honesty about his career.

When ENR reads about people like Skyline High's Anisa Mughal, he is reminded of a quote (slightly altered to fit ENR's circumstances) from Tom Lehrer: «It is a sobering thought to consider that by the time Mozart got to be my age, he had been dead for 16 years.»

about U.S. Department of Transportation Announces «Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over» Holiday Crackdown

How she gets there, the hilarious and sobering things that happen to her, the personal and professional entanglements that spring up everywhere, the pitfalls of remaining old - school when all about her are tattooed, self - indulgent, young millionaires — this is the smart, funny, outrageous, wonderful story of Full Court Press.

Mary Karr's bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars» Club and Cherry — and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year — Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live.

We're just about sobered up after last week's doozy of a Republican National Convention, where Melania Trump became the world's most famous appropriation artist with her «plagiarized» Michelle Obama speech... and we're already reaching for the bottle to get through the chaotic Democratic National Convention starting today.

A reviewer in the NYT described it as «A protracted exploration of the aesthetic, social and spiritual dimensions of industrialization and globalization... Raises some sigificant and sobering questions about the impact that we, as humans, make on our environment» As Brett Wallach noted, «The landscape is as good as a book to get you thinking.»

The purpose of the drug and alcohol course is to present students with the facts about alcohol, drugs, and driving, in hopes that they will choose to be sober, and therefore safe, when they get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.

Off - Dry is my blog about getting and staying sober in a world that's often three sheets to the wind.

About Blog When I got sober on February 3, 2015, I decided to tuck that old blog away and write from this new perspective of being a sober woman striving to be a better human every single day.

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How about for people who access drug and alcohol rehabilitation services, sober up and then get released into the very same situation that saw them enter rehabilitation services in the first place?

We got into therapy which forced us to take a sober look at our relationship and do some serious soul searching about when and where and why it went off the rails.