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I Love You More Than I Hate Myself

More September Check-Ins, plus it’s recovery month.

I Feel Like I’m Firing the Dog, Too

Back to September, back to school, back to check-ins.

A Gentle Acknowledgment of Plain Humanness

Our roundup of TSB’s most popular August posts and podcasts.

Hope Is Another Word for Trust

Our readers tell us about calling 9-8-8.

Interview With a 47-year-old Sober Person: Nick Catucci

“I have always hated lying, but I lied easily and often if it meant protecting my drinking. I don’t think I’ve told a meaningful lie in 14 years.”

Here in the Quiet Stillness

Part Two of our August check-ins.

Nothing Is Wrong and Everything Is Wrong

It’s August, and TSB has a touch of reverse seasonal depression.

An Ongoing Vision of Thankfulness

Our roundup of TSB’s most popular July posts and podcasts.

What It's Like to Care for Your Qualifier

TSB readers on caring for the parent who hurt you.

Interview with a 51-year-old Sober Person: John DeVore

“Before sobriety I was known as a ‘happy drunk,’ but that wasn’t the truth. I was, in fact, what I would call a ‘reverse Pagliacci,’ a visibly distraught depressive who cracked jokes.”

More Stories From Those Addicted to Weed

Make the Haunted Train Stop

It’s July. We’re hot, we’re exhausted, we’re happier than we’ve ever been.

Crushing Waves Can't Keep Me Away

A roundup of TSB's most popular June posts and podcasts.

How Blue the Sky

TSB readers on what sobriety (etc.) helps them see

Interview with a 72-year-old Sober Person: Anne Lamott

“When I first got sober, there was somebody, an oldster, who said to me that at the end he was deteriorating faster than he could lower his standards. And that was the point I got to . . .”