Fourteen months after I got sober, I started writing.
I had no idea what I was doing or why I was doing it.
I just knew that once I began, I couldn’t stop.
It felt like I was digging myself out of a deep, dark hole with every word I put on the page.
What I discovered was I actually wasn’t just a “Former Party Girl” but actually a girl who was really really sad and searching for solutions at the bottom of a bottle.
Step 4 of the 12 step program is to make a “searching and fearless moral inventory” and writing this book was an inventory for me. What are my problems? How have they affected me and others around me? How can I proceed to recovery?
This story started out as a personal project. And then, the deeper I got into my work in sobriety, the more I realized how universal pain is. And how our stories become other people’s survival guides. And so the book took on greater meaning.
I spent one whole year working with Saloni Lakhia from 2020-2021 on this. I cried and cried over zoom as she dissected my work. After we finished, I then proceeded to let the book sit on my hard drive, which I’m grateful for. In that time a number of conflicts with myself and others came to conclusion that altered the way I saw the world and the message of the book.
I worked with the incredible Sarah Millman who dissected this book yet again, and transformed it. Finally with Jen Parker for the final layout, graphic design and cover design. Many friends read the book and gave me feedback. And finally - four years, three editors, 67 chapters and over 115,000 words - Sober Yoga Girl is almost here. It’s coming soon. If you want to be the first to know when it’s out head to www.soberyogagirl.com and drop your email.
When Taylor Swift released TTPD, she wrote on Instagram, “This period of the authors life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.”
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