Sobriety Stories

Sébastien is organized. Not obsessive - organized. There's a difference. His therapist says that distinction matters a lot to him. One Sunday night, the bottom machine won't start. A neighbor presses the reset button. Thirty seconds. That's all. What follows is laundry drying, too much soup, a scarf forgotten on a hook, and someone quietly learning that some things don't need to be analyzed to be real. A quiet novel. Gentle. Very ordinary. Exactly like life when it starts again.

Glitter & Regret is an adaption of my real-life journals into a self-help memoir. Glitter & Regret follows my life starting in 2013 - the year that I graduated high school and found myself attracted to all of the wrong things; drugs and sugar daddies. This book follows my journey into self-discovery, self-love and self-worth. Glitter & Regret serves as the prequel to my recovery from meth and heroin and is the first of a three part memoir. ***DISCLAIMER*** this book has a lot of triggering conversations; drugs, mental illness and some language that's not meant for all eyes. Please read with this discretion. Glitter & Regret is the first of three parts and this is primarily the prequel to my recovery.

All of the poems I've written, from love to loss, from wanting to end my life to wanting to stay, from addiction to sobriety. Midnight writes to mornings of pure thoughts. A great poem book if you love reading and everything more than what you think it is.

Teenage Linstead. Erin is content and going out of her mind, now that she's three months sober. She meets a boy who works in the mall across from her and hates his guts - oh, wait, maybe it's the opposite. #Linstead

And one day these burdens will be gone

Sober thoughts

writings from my time in the madness and since getting sober

The one coping skill that actually helped me stop self h*rm. Trigger Warning

This is my recovery story, from rehab to the unfinished ending. This is my journey through the monsters that tried to kill me and how I stayed sober.

A series of poems documenting my journey into recovery. An afterword explaining the significance and meaning behind each poem is included on last page.

This poem is about a man who can travel the universe. Even with that ability, he still nearly crumbles when it comes to staying sober. Why can we not be sober?

Addiction tore through my life with horror; and here is the real life image of how it hit home. Life of addiction written in a rehab.

A story of recovery, love, fate and taking ownership.

A beautiful disaster wrapped up and packaged with a bow, turned into a masterpiece.

To the love of my life, I write our story for you. May you Rest In Peace and always be remembered For who you were.

sorry for spamming romanticism but here I go again

Grass is always greener on the other side? Maybe maybe not. But the things with the wild life is, it will always exist. You can walk away from it, but it will never go away. You can leave it and always come back but the left you left my not be the same as when you left.

This is a poem to my late mother. I was simply trying to get some things out of my head. I miss and love her to the point where words cannot do her justice. But I might as well try, right?