Amy C. Willis
Mind Your Mind: 5 Tips to Incorporate Mindfulness into Your Recovery
Mindfulness is about bringing awareness and presence to everything - thoughts and thought patterns, environment, habits, bodily sensations,
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Amy C. Willis
- Nov 13, 2020
- 8 min
Normative Alcohol Culture: What It Is and Why It Matters
Normative alcohol culture serves to bolster the patriarchy, capitalism and white supremacy. Big alcohol exists purely as a capitalist ...
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Amy C. Willis
- May 23, 2020
- 8 min
Fortify/No One’s Coming to Save You
What can we be doing to support ourselves and our future selves when we don't know what's coming next?
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Amy C. Willis
- May 17, 2020
- 5 min
What to Say When Saying “Alcoholic” Doesn’t Feel Right
Addiction is highly nuanced and complex and requires precise language. The on-going use of the term “alcoholic” simply does not capture the
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Amy C. Willis
- May 13, 2020
- 7 min
Listen to Your Gut, Lady: 5 Tips on How to Tap Into & Strengthen Your Intuition
... what is best for us is not to run with the crowd but fear holds us back and in listening to fear, we stop listening to our intuition.
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Amy C. Willis
- Mar 26, 2020
- 6 min
Coping Through Covid: 7 Strategies to Support You and Your Sobriety
Learn a handful of impactful and powerful tools to support your sobriety during uncertain times.
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Amy C. Willis
- Feb 28, 2020
- 8 min
3.5 Years into My Sobriety and I Still Feel the Pull: What You Can Do When Cravings Hit
3.5 years into my sobriety. And then it happened.
Out of nowhere, a thought popped into my head: you should have a drink.
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Amy C. Willis
- Dec 10, 2019
- 6 min
Resilience in Recovery: 7 Steps to Strengthening Your Struggle
While we don’t have the capacity to change our history, we do have the capacity to change our beliefs, our emotions and our experiences ...
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Amy C. Willis
- Oct 16, 2019
- 5 min
But What If Addiction Isn't a Disease? Part I
As someone who struggled with problematic alcohol use and consumption, labelling my experience as a "disease" never sat well with me.
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Amy C. Willis
- Aug 26, 2019
- 5 min
How I’m Healing from a Break-Up ... Sober pt II
Below are some of the tools I used to support myself and process my feelings following the break-up. The same tools can easily be used ...
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Amy C. Willis
- Aug 26, 2019
- 5 min
How I’m Healing from a Break-Up ... Sober pt I
On our final day of a long weekend in the county in May, as we casually laid in bed chatting, my partner of almost 5 years shared that...
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Amy C. Willis
- Aug 4, 2019
- 5 min
The Sobriety Smörgåsbord: Why Creating a Recovery Patchwork Can Serve You Well
Let's chat about why creating a #recovery patchwork can be so beneficial for you!
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Amy C. Willis
- Jul 14, 2019
- 4 min
Books for Sobriety & Life
Some of the books that have changed my life and supported my #recovery!
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Amy C. Willis
- Jun 26, 2019
- 4 min
NO FUN: Life in Sobriety
Busting myths that #sobriety is no fun and sharing tips on the plethora of ways to have fun and enjoy your #sober life!
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Amy C. Willis
- Jun 8, 2019
- 8 min
My Recovery Tools
A snapshot into some of the tools I used (and use!) to support my recovery journey!
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Amy C. Willis
- May 28, 2019
- 2 min
How Sobriety Birthed My Creativity
My road to unearthing the creativity found in sobriety.
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