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Recovering alcoholic originally from the UK (sobriety date 17th May 2008). Living in a remote mountain village in Spain with cats & dogs that I rescued. The village has no form of entertainment aside from 17 bars - I got sober here! I have no access to transport and have never been to an AA meeting. It´s been tough but I love sobriety with a passion! I work and live The 12 Steps. I have had a lot of support via AA friends I have met on the internet. I speak with others in recovery on a regular basis. My blog is a record of my journey in recovery taken from my journal and emails. I´m here to help if any woman is struggling with her sobriety: Please email me: Sober-Princess@hotmail.com
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Medical Billing I taught myself to illustrate in sobriety as there are no jobs here and I´m not eligible for any benefits. I needed to find something I could do on the computer. It has been a difficult but rewarding learning curve!! I sell my illustrations via stock agencies and on gifts in 2 shops on Zazzle (Sober Princess sells recovery related products). Funky flash panels with my most popular products are at the very bottom of this page if you want to take a look - because nobody likes a pushy salesperson ;-) Thanks! Click here to see Molly Sky Designs store and Click here to see Sober Princess Designs store I also have a store selling products for shelter animals for the only animal shelter in this area. They are struggling BIG time and need all the support they can get to stay open! ALL proceeds made from this store are going here: Click here to visit the Animal Protection Society Albox and Click here to see my Speak 4 Animals store

Friday, November 19, 2010

Thank YOU!!!

Wow, I can't believe that I won a 2010 Top Abuse & Recovery Blogs Award presented by MedicalBilling and Coding! Thank you SO much to all who nominated me!! ♥

I really do not deserve it because I'm a very lazy blogger - or rather more to the point I'm just not very organised and still find it very difficult to prioritise things in my life.

Well, this has come at a great time because I have 2 and a half years of sobriety this week - so, it´s a nice way to mark this milestone (yes, I'm still newly sober enough to want to celebrate half a year!!)

I must sort through my old early recovery journal again very soon and continue on with my story.

Today I'm sober and content - still living in difficult circumstances, but so many things have changed for the better (mainly my relationships with others, and my new ability to keep putting one foot in front of the other and persevering rather than giving up). My life hasn´t really changed - but I HAVE. My perspective is completely different and I no longer have that destructive victim mentality, which only ever aliented me from the rest of society. I now realise that the only person who can change my life is ME. It's no one else's responsibility - sitting around feeling sorry for myself or worrying about things only ever does me harm.
Posted by Sober Princess at 5:14 AM
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2 comments:

  1. AndrewNovember 19, 2010 at 7:00 PM

    Good on you for two and one half years!

    You are doing great in my book.

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  2. RCNovember 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM

    Yay! Congrats - that is happy news all around!

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