The Recovery Elevator Blog
Benefits of Service in Recovery
Recovery Elevator is excited to offer a new type of blog experience to our readers! We are reaching out to our Café RE members and giving those that are interested the opportunity to be guest bloggers for our site. Think of it as a podcast interview in written...
Do I have a Drinking Problem?
Today is the day! Today is the day we are going to find out if you have a drinking problem…or not. Are you ready? For Paul, when it finally sunk in that he did indeed have a drinking problem (and a good one at that!) two things happened. First…he was like, “Oh...
BYO Mocktail: Full Circle Mocktails
I hope I’m not disappointing my 4 readers (hi Roxanne, Robyn, Kerri and Trisha!) No mocktail recipe this month. But I will throw in my favorite homemade ice cream recipe as of late for a little change up. Lately my mocktails have been top secret as I’ve been writing...
Dopamine
Let’s talk about dopamine! If we are to properly discuss alcohol addiction we will soon come to the molecule dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter commonly coined as the pleasure molecule, but that’s not entirely correct. Dopamine is more accurately...
BYO Mocktail: Kiss from a Rose
This past year I have been working for a large international women’s retail clothing store. I have the first hand knowledge of how fashion is coming back around… the good and the bad. The return lately has been to the fashion of the early 90s, grunge but with a little...
A Message to Big Alcohol
406 episodes of the Recovery Elevator Podcast were released before there was an intro with the main message being addressed to Big Alcohol. Why do you think that is? That’s a lot of Mondays to not tell Big Alcohol what we think, (or where to stick it 😈). Why wasn’t...
The Order of Healing
Let’s talk about the order of healing when you quit drinking. We’ll also put a time frame on it…more or less place holders for what you can expect. As with everything in recovery…your time frame may not exactly match up with what is outlined here…but should be...
BYO Mocktail: All Snowed In (Maple Cinnamon Coffee)
Who else feels the last three months of each each really blend together…starting with Costume-palooza all the way through “New-Year-New-Me!”? I love a good party just as much as the next person, but I also need to focus on the traditions that unique to my family. The...
The Brain and Alcohol | Genetic Predisposition
Let’s talk about science and alcohol. It’s a pretty interesting and popular subject when the topic of recovery and sobriety gets brought up. But let’s keep in mind that it’s not enough to rely on science and information to ditch the booze. Yes, it’s...
BYO Mocktail: Tamarind Agua Fresca
At this point it sounds cliche, 2022 has been an a$$ kicker of a year. I'm very tired, but I'm also very sober, still. Sober because I was lucky enough to have built a large toolbox which I relied on a lot this year. When I tell you that I used ever single tool in...
