There is another amazing post over on the Crying Out Now blog. The Crying Out Now blog was founded by a woman named Ellie, which is my nickname for the woman I love, Lauren Elizabeth Kelley. Breaking the Chain of Addiction – Lara at One Year Sober January 13, 2013, I was one year sober. [...]
Ellie of the Crying Out Now blog posted a link to the trailer for the documentary Lipstick & Liquor: Secrets in the Suburbs. It is a documentary about alcoholism and women, and how alcoholism is becoming increasingly common in women. Alcoholism is now the third leading cause of preventable death for women between the ages [...]
There is another great post over on the Crying Out Now Blog. It is written by an anonymous binge drinker who is trying to get sober. In so many ways, the words she writes could easily be Lauren Elizabeth Kelley’s story in the near future. Here is the entire post. A Binge Drinker Tells Her [...]
This is the image I sent to Ellie, the founder of the Crying Out Now blog, for her three-and-a-half year Anniversary video. Ellie promised that she was going to use it in her video and did. I am honored beyond belief. The Crying Out Now blog is an amazing resource, written by women for women. [...]
There’s another great post on the Crying Out Now blog. The post is by a woman who finally decided to stop drinking because driving drunk nearly cost her her life. I personally know the high cost of drunk driving, at least from a victim’s viewpoint. I have never driven drunk or incapacitated in any way [...]
Ellie, the founder of the amazing Crying Out Now Blog—not my Lauren Elizabeth Kelley, has finally posted her new Anniversary Video for Crying Out Now. Here it is… and if you watch closely, you might even recognize someone in it. In her post on the the Crying Out Now blog, Ellie asks: What do YOU [...]
There’s another great post on the amazing Crying Out Now blog. I’ll be quoting much of it below. I’ve been waging a serious war for the past 5 days. With alcohol. And with myself. I’m 30 years old. I’ve been drinking pretty steadily since my early 20′s. I don’t drink much hard alcohol anymore, but [...]
There’s a good post over at the Crying Out Now Blog by a High Functioning Alcoholic called Confessions of a High Bottom Alcoholic. The woman is 37 years old and has only been sober for about a year. I used to think that Lauren Elizabeth Kelley was a high functioning alcoholic like her father. Given [...]
The amazing Crying Out Now blog is one of the best resources for women dealing with addiction, alcoholism and recovery and the people who love them. Ellie, its founder, not my Lauren Elizabeth Kelley, is making a video to celebrate the Crying Out Now’s 2-1/2 year anniversary. Ellie is making a 2-1/2 year anniversary video [...]
“Saving the world is easy, but loving one person – one person who’s as broken and imperfect as you are- THAT is the hard stuff.” ~Glennon I think Glennon, who writes the amazing Momastery blog, is right…and loving Lauren Elizabeth Kelley is not easy. I don’t think my beloved Irish rose wants to be a [...]
The Crying Out Now blog has a post title “The Miracle” I’ve reposted it here. The Miracle ***Submitted by NH Today I feel like the world is spinning out of control. I have a gift today though, since working through the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, to know that it is my head spinning out [...]
There’s another excellent post on the Crying Out Now Blog by Annika. She writes about how Frank the Tank is a horrible mother. Annika describes who Frank the Tank is saying: People are loud and jovial and just warming up. A high school buddy whom I love dearly comes up to me and says, with [...]
The Crying Out Now blog posted a link on Facebook to an article on Jezebel.com. The article is about Jael, a former contestant on the reality TV show America’s Next Top Model who is addicted to meth and how it has affected her appearance. Prefacing Crying Out Now’s link to the article, Ellie (not my [...]
There’s another great post on the Crying Out Now blog. The post is by a woman who has been four months sober and she writes about what she calls “The Exchange”. The key paragraph from this post are: So I made the decision to exchange my crutch, alcohol, for health and happiness with my family. [...]
There are two interesting posts up. One is called “Confessions of a [Former] Addict” Here is the most important excerpt from it in my opinion. Days go by and you suffocate yourself more as the urges to feed your thing become stronger. You feel like its appetite is insatiable and this is when you start [...]
I was watching Major Crimes, which is a sequel to Kyra Sedgewick’s TV series The Closer. In the third episode, it starts with a young woman, driving erratically and eventually killing four people. The woman’s blood alcohol test results are lost due to a technicality, but her toxicology panel shows that she was on Ambien [...]
There’s another fantastic post over on the Crying Out Now Blog. Justine writes about knowing she is an alcoholic and wants to stop, but can’t. In many ways, she’s far ahead of Lauren Elizabeth, since Lauren Elizabeth can’t even admit she has a problem with drugs or alcohol and admitting the problem is key to [...]
On Facebook, a good friend of mine posted a link to an article titled “How a Single Oxycontin Pill Nearly Ruined One Man’s Life.” I am posting the entire text of the article here along with a warning to Lauren Elizabeth, the woman I love, that this story shows what could easily happen to her [...]
There is another excellent post over on the Crying Out Now blog.. Renee writes on what it is like for her to be five months sober. Like Ellie, Renee was drinking and smoking marijuana. Here is Renee’s post: Today is my soberversary. Five Months. It’s funny…I remember when my kids were little people would ask [...]
There are three more posts on the Crying Out Now blog. Their titles are pretty revealing: Good Girl Gone Drunk; Young and Binge Drinking; and Reaching Out for Help. Good Girl Gone Drunk is written by a 28-year-old mother who runs a successful daycare business out of her home. Her husband thinks she has a [...]
There’s another excellent post over at the Crying Out Now blog. It really addresses the idea that recovering from alcoholism and addiction are not one time events but a life-long process. There is no such thing as a cured alcoholic or drug addict—only alcoholics and drug addicts in recovery. Here is the post: It has [...]
There’s another amazingly powerful post on the Crying Out Now blog called “Gestating Elephants.” The article gets its title from the fact that it takes about 18 months of sobriety for a person in recovery to feel somewhat solid in their recovery and that 18 months is how long elephants gestate for. In the post, [...]
Here’s another post from the Crying Out Now blog. I don’t drink. Reading people’s stories on forums yesterday made me think that perhaps my drinking habits are not that bad. The stories didn’t shock me – although they did make me sad – but they did give me a moment’s pause: I don’t physically or [...]
Twelve years ago today, I was asked if I wanted to cancel my engagement to Gee by her father. Gee had been just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer–and though we did not yet know it, it had already metastasized through her lymphatic system. I looked at my future father-in-law and said, “Gee’s illness doesn’t change how [...]
There’s another really amazing post on the Crying Out Now blog. The article talks about how hitting rock bottom for an alcoholic doesn\’t necessarily have to resemble a scene from the A&E TV series Intervention. Here are some brutal truths from a woman now eight months sober: If you’re still drinking, here’s what I want [...]
On the Crying Out Now blog, there is a post that I fear will repeat itself with someone I love. The post starts with the following words: “Like most people, I’m not really sure where or why my life started to fall apart and alcohol started to take over my life. What I do know [...]
Holidays, present a difficult situation for many recovering alcoholics, since the parties of the season often involve alcoholic beverages, and one may not want it known that they are a recovering alcoholic. The Crying out Now blog provides a pretty good list of tips for those trying to maintain their sobriety during this time of [...]
It is strange what you can find on Google. I found this article by doing a search on a whim for “recovery”, “love”, “addiction” and “Ellie”. I wish Ellie would read this article. While I don’t believe her father has ever beaten her mother, he is very emotionally abusive towards Ellie’s mother. I guess that [...]