WeAreStrongWomen, Author at Ann Arbor Women’s Group

10.04.2015 The Silence Ends

I’m tired of seeing my brothers and sisters die. I’m tired of people treating addiction like it’s a moral issue and not a health issue. I’m tired of people going to jail when they should be going to treatment OR when they get out of jail they are thrown right back into the same environment that they were in before. There isn’t enough detox beds, there isn’t enough free treatment, there isn’t enough sober living environments. I’m tired of first responders not being equipped with a $33 opiate blocking drug that can save someone from overdosing and dying. It’s time to change things!

10 Tips for Newcomers, Tip #4: Change Your Environment

by WeAreStrongWomen

What do you like to do? What are your hobbies? Those were two questions that were posed to me in early recovery. I opened my mouth to answer and I couldn’t come up with anything. For over 20 years I drank and drugged. That was my hobby.

Cathy’s Story

by WomenRuleTheDay

The message I hope others hear from my story is that God has plans for all of us that are bigger and crazier and more wonderful than we can even imagine. Recovery makes so many things possible – things that could never happen when we are drinking.

10 Tips for Newcomers: Tip #3 Communication

by WeAreStrongWomen

If you are newly sober you probably aren’t doing ok, but that’s ok. Talk to a friend in recovery. They were once newly sober too. They can share their experiences with you.

Bridging the Gap; The Spirit of Cooperation

by WeAreStrongWomen

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that recovery organizations are “breaking traditions”… Well, I’d probably only have a couple of bucks, but that’s still too many times. They CAN’T break traditions because they don’t have any.

10 Tips for Newcomers: Tip #2, Taking it One Day at a Time

by WeAreStrongWomen

This is a blog series that will be focusing on one tip every few days for newcomers. Today’s tips is to TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME.

Ten Tips for Newcomers: Tip 1 Make Recovery a Priority

by WeAreStrongWomen

This is a blog series that will be focusing on one tip a day for newcomers. These tips are not a replacement for going to meetings and working the 12 steps.

Netflix Binge Watching and Depression, Which Comes First?

by WeAreStrongWomen

Watching hours of TV at a time is the new technology-enabled method we’re using to try to stave off those nagging negative feelings. The more prone to addictive behaviors we are, the more likely we are to just keep clicking “next” at the end of an episode of Orange is the New Black.