Popular Free Essays

Who Are We Without Our Labels?

Individualism and collectivism, sobriety and queerness

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Dana Leigh Lyons

My Relationship With Writing Is Changing

When writing the personal becomes calcification and deification of identity, memory, and story

Mar 22 •

Dana Leigh Lyons

To the Commenter Who Shamed Me

I have some thoughts on making money and “the principle of service” in the recovery space.

Mar 14 •

Dana Leigh Lyons

Sort-of Sober Isn’t Sober (Also: we don’t get to insert ourselves everywhere)

The validity of exclusivity in sober communities

Feb 24 •

Dana Leigh Lyons

How “Everything in Moderation” Is Just Settling for Mediocrity

Tough love for those wishing farewell to Dry January

Jan 30 •

Dana Leigh Lyons

All the Good & Beautiful Things That Have Happened Since Getting Sober

In lieu of blaming and complaining, I come bearing love and my joy list.

Jan 16 •

Dana Leigh Lyons

A Scattered Spirit: Joy on Drugs vs. Joy While Sober

How a Chinese Medicine perspective can help free us from the hamster wheel of ecstatic highs and plummeting lows

Jan 11 •

Dana Leigh Lyons

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