#7 Dear Recovering: How do I face telling my family about my sobriety?

Real quick before I get into the meat of this: Quitted launched on Thursday, and you can listen to our first full episode on literally all of the podcasting apps (except Stitcher but that’ll be fixed in a week). Initial feedback includes: “Listening to you all just made everything okay, because it’s okay to be just where I am. Fuck purpose. Fuck people pleasing. Just let out the biggest sigh.” !!!

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I used to do a thing on the Hip Sobriety blog called Dear Hip Sobriety, where I’d respond to reader questions with an essay (not unlike Dear Sugar except for the part where I’m not Cheryl Strayed). I answered a range of questions, from where to start stopping, to how to stop judging drinkers, to how to quit pot, to how to get sober without spending money, etc. That Hip Sobriety feature eventually moved to a column in Self magazine called “Ask a Sober Pers…