Tag: emotional sobriety

• Day Forty-Four

  

  I’ve spent a fair bit of the past week bouncing between wishing time away and yet knowing that when my time to leave the ice comes, it will most likely feel too soon and I won’t be ready for it to end. It’s so hard to stay in the moment sometimes. The week leading up…

  annemarieathey

  June 24, 2023

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• Day Forty-One

  

  A year or so after I got sober, I heard the line ‘people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.’ I’ve been thinking about it quite a bit lately. About the people I’ve met down here and my relationships with each of them. Wondering who belongs in each of those…

  annemarieathey

  June 21, 2023

  antarctica

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• Day Nineteen

  

  That feeling of wanting to belong has been present ever since I got to Christchurch back in October. It makes sense; new job, new coworkers, new home, new friends, new everything. In some ways, many ways, when I got sober almost six years ago, I had to learn how to live all over again. And…

  annemarieathey

  May 29, 2023

  antarctica

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