By Lisa CoppolaOriginal Source: thefix.com

The way of living I have found in sobriety helps me live differently and more beneficially on a day to day basis. This has made for a good life.

I got sober at 29, ten years ago this month. Here are ten ways in which life is drastically different for me now:

1. Every Morning, I Wake Up Clean and Safe

This was not the case for so many years. I have awoken in people’s yards, in stranger’s homes, in cars, with black and blues and broken busted cheeks, with my things stolen or missing, in a jail cell, once in an FBI interrogation office, and countless times in a puddle of ...click here to continue reading