Sober Stories

Alcohol addiction is common enough to be invisible until it isn't — until a relationship breaks, a job ends, or a doctor says something that can no longer be dismissed. The writers in this collection describe the before and the after, including the long middle where neither is yet clear.

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts trace the arc of alcohol addiction and recovery: the drinking that became something else, the recognition that took time, the routes toward sobriety — through programs like AA, through residential treatment, through therapy and medication-assisted approaches — and the daily work of staying there. Relapse appears in these pages because it appears in many people's stories.

Who it's for

For those in or approaching recovery, the partners and families who are part of the story, and anyone trying to understand addiction through experience rather than explanation.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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