How I Stay Accountable
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON SOBERLINK.COM While we all have different journeys in recovery, most will agree that accountability is a crucial component when it comes to staying clean and sober. Once we admit we want to rebuild our lives—whether it’s to a close friend, a family member or all our followers on Instagram—it becomes […]
Last Call blog with Nancy Carr
Relationships in Recovery: an Interview with Lisa F. Smith THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON LASTCALLBLOG Lisa F. Smith is someone that I had read about a few months ago as her new Memoir, “Girl Walks Out of a Bar” was about to be released and the early reviews were garnering some great attention. As being a […]
3 Key Tips for Dating in Recovery
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON SHATTERPROOF.ORG When I got sober I followed my 12-step sponsor’s advice and didn’t date for the first year. I understood the suggestion that if you enter recovery in a relationship, stay in it unless it’s threatening your sobriety, and if you enter recovery single, stay that way. It made sense […]
100 Must-Read Books About Addiction
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON BOOKRIOT.COM Katie MacBride: I’ve been sober for nine years, and in that time I’ve read a lot of books about addiction. In fact, I started reading about addiction before I got sober–-perhaps because something in the very back of my mind was telling me that someday these books would be […]
Author Talks Addiction at Event Hosted by JCC Greenwich
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON GREENWICHTIME.COM GREENWICH — Lisa Smith was a lawyer at a megafirm in New York City with an apartment in Manhattan, family and friends and a secret that was killing her from the inside out. She was a high-functioning alcoholic who balanced out her alcohol abuse with cocaine, calibrating her dual […]
GOP health plan risky for mental health, addiction progress
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON BREAKINGNEWS-WIKI.COM In this March 16, 2017, photo, Jose Luis Guzman, from the Department of Public Health, looks for discarded hypodermic needles on the steps of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.(Photo: Paul Chinn, AP) House Republicans’ Affordable Care Act replacement plan would dramatically change who is eligible for free […]
Women Lawyers are Being Driven to Drink
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON TONIC.VICE.COM The highly competitive field is a breeding ground for addiction problems. The morning before Lisa F. Smith, the author of Girl Walks Out of A Bar: A Memoir, checked herself into rehab, she says her breakfast consisted of a bottle of red wine and several lines of cocaine. It […]
Addiction Recovery Literature
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON singleandsober.com The genre of addiction recovery literature is ever growing with new offerings available almost daily. There are specific areas of interest in this genre including “How to”, “Early Sobriety”, and “Memoirs”. I am going to share a few of my “favorites” in the How to and memoir areas. This […]
The Huffington Post – 35 Over 35 Honors Authors Who Found Success Later In Life
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON the huffington post The celebration of youth is everywhere, not just in beauty magazines. Literary organizations also champion the hip and emerging, by recognizing the progress of rising stars under 40, under 35. This is a great way to keep talent on readers’ radars, but it is, necessarily, limited. See […]
BBC World News Interview
Watch the Interview Interview with Lisa Smith, author of GIRL WALKS OUT OF A BAR, a memoir of high-functioning alcoholism, drug addiction and recovery as a corporate lawyer in big New York City firms. Discussing a study showing that women have largely caught up to men with respect to alcohol consumption. Aired October 26, 2016.