Bibles & Bible Studies
This part is optional, and I want to be upfront about it. Faith carried me through parts of this that nothing else could reach. If it's not your thing, skip ahead, nothing here is required reading.
Recovery Workbooks & Journals
For putting the noise in your head onto paper instead of carrying it into the next craving. No faith required for any of these, just a pen.
Recovery Reads
The books I actually finished. Some of them I read twice.
Comfort & Self-Care
Small rituals for after the craving passes. Staying sober is more than surviving the hard five minutes, it's building a life you don't want to escape from.
Movement & Fitness
For the hours that are too long to sit still in. Moving your body is the one distraction that keeps paying you back the next day.
Hard Candy
The first five minutes. This is what's in my pocket when a craving hits hard and fast.
Starlight Mints Peppermint Candy (2 Lb Bag)
Twenty minutes to finish one. That's the whole trick.
$13.49
Cinnamon Jawbreakers, Spicy Cinnamon Candy (2 Lb Bag)
One of the women I still talk to swears by these. Cinnamon, for whatever reason, works when nothing else does.
$21.99
Gummy Candy
For when it lingers longer than a mint can handle. Something chewy buys you more time.
Hobbies & Distraction Kits
For the hands. It's hard to reach for anything else when you're halfway through building something.
