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On Eight Years Of Waking Up

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Daniel Lavery
Aug 25, 2021
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Yesterday, August 24th, was the eight-year anniversary of my getting sober; it’s a little difficult to think of a scale of eight years, not least because I often think 2013 was just two or three years ago. Some people in recoveries — it makes more sense to me to think of recovery strategies in the plural rather than the singular, for obvious reasons — t…

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