TSB Essays
How to Have Confusing Sober Sex
“I wasn’t sure from moment to moment whether I was enjoying myself or not. I kept asking myself if I was doing something I didn’t want to do, or doing something wrong.”
SLAA
+1
How to Slay Your Dragons
“The truth is, I have worked hard to not dislike myself so much, but I still worry, sometimes in an acute, frightened, little-kid way, about being too weird and maybe even scary.”
Fear
+3
We’ll Make Great Pets
“In a wine-drunk fugue state, I’d sent half a dozen emails to a Korean woman I’d never met, demanding that she PayPal me 500 American dollars, or else I would give the cat away.”
Love
+3
What Does It Mean to Be "In Recovery" Anyway?
“I had impostor syndrome -- but for slowly killing yourself.”
Therapy
+3
A Room I Could Belong In
“I felt like I'd found the key to a door I knew I needed to open.”
Gratitude
+2
Notes From an Adult Child of Alcoholics
"They were always drinking, as far back as I can remember, in a way that I can now recognize as problematic, but at the time it was just the way things were."
Gratitude
+3
