Welcome to Sober Soulful, a beautiful, diverse, 3,400+ member community.
As a queer, sober writer and Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I offer a safe, expansive space for folks:
In recovery or examining their relationship to alcohol and other drugs, social media and online technology, food and body, money and spending, work and external validation, and ways of perceiving and relating.
Seeking an intimate exploration of soulful living, healing unhelpful patterns, and being human.
What can you expect at Sober Soulful?
This newsletter will often feel like good medicine, but it’s not prescriptive. I’m not offering advice about what you should do—whether as pertains to sobriety or anything else. I’m sharing my personal, living experience.
Follow along for intimate explorations of how we show up in this body-mind-soul. Also how to navigate being and becoming with love, honesty, and a willingness to un-know—rather than insisting on answers.
Throughout, a heart-sourced question guides the way: How can we live more beautifully?
What you’ll find here:
Exploration Essays offering heart-sourced, no-bullsh*t insights on addiction, sobriety, and being human (free)
Sobriety Series: letter and resources for changing unhelpful patterns and finding serenity (paid subscribers)
Food & Body: essays and practical guides exploring beliefs, patterns, and fears related to food and the body, including my 3-part series on Quieting Food Noise (paid subscribers)
My Soulful Life: personal shares about soulful living in Thailand (paid subscribers)
SoberStack™ updates and community pop-up threads (free)
Upgrade your subscription for full access:
Not sober? Not a problem!
Don’t feel as though you need to identify as an addict, sober, sober curious, or in recovery to stick around. If you follow me a while, you’ll learn pretty quick how I feel about conventional narratives, boxes, and labels.
The 3,400+ member community at Sober Soulful is wonderfully diverse, and I hold recovery and sobriety in a living, breathing, ever-changing way—one that’s expansive, inclusive, and quintessential human. (And we’re all human here, still figuring it out.)
On the other hand, if you’re not the least bit soulful (which is not synonymous with or equivalent to “religious,” though they can overlap), this might not be the newsletter for you (or maybe, it’s exactly the newsletter for you!). I approach sobriety and life through a spiritual, soul-conscious lens.
What it costs and why
You can expect one or two free essays a month plus access to the SoberStack™ directory. Full access to Food & Body, My Soulful Life, and the Sobriety Series are exclusive to paid subscribers. This is in part because I put many hours into creating this newsletter. It’s also because much of my content is deeply personal. I don’t feel comfortable providing full, unlimited access for free.
Full access to Sober Soulful costs:
$7.00/month or
$40/year (52% cheaper than subscribing monthly)
Thank you being here, from my heart to yours.
Dana
