Sober Social

07/24/2026

Happy Friday! If you’re wanting more info on Sober Social click through to our page and see the info video we have there. Hope to see you soon!

07/17/2026

Enjoy the next four weeks and come visit us Friday, 8/14, from 6-8 to usher summer out!

07/03/2026

1 day, year, or decade clean and sober, Sober Social is a great place to relax, have fun, and be encouraged. It’s only once a month so get it on your calendar! C 🫵🏼 soon. 🧡

06/26/2026

06/21/2026

A day late and probably more than a dollar short! 🤭 3 weeks from YESTERDAY for the next Sober Social. Come join the fun.

06/13/2026

Living the good life of recovery! One beautiful day at a time.

06/13/2026

Another successful grill and chill in the books for Sober Social! A spectacular night with a group of outstanding people. 🧡 🔥

06/05/2026

This post!!! So true. We pray for God to remove things that trouble us without ever trying to figure out the root of WHY we’re troubled. Huge wisdom here!

Sober is not the goal.

I'll say it louder for the people clapping for their sobriety chips.

Sober just means you are in between drinks.

That's it.

You stopped pouring the poison in.

Good. That matters.

But stopping is not the same as healing.

And nobody wants to say that out loud because it feels like it diminishes the hard work of getting sober.

It doesn't.

Getting sober is one of the hardest things a human being can do.

But it is the starting line, not the finish line.

If you are not eating real food, not sleeping, not hydrating, not moving your body, not giving your brain the chemicals it has been starving for…

You are the exact same person.

Just not drinking.

Still anxious.

Still exhausted.

Still numb.

Still one bad day away from the thing you swore off.

And that is not a character flaw.

That is what happens when you remove the substance without replacing what it was doing for you.

Alcohol was medicating something.

Loneliness. Anxiety. Boredom. Trauma. Emotional overload.

When you take it away without addressing any of that, the pressure doesn't disappear.

It just has nowhere to go.

That is why so many people hate being sober.

That is why relapse rates are what they are.

That is why white-knuckling never works long term.

It's supposed to feel unbearable when you are just abstaining and calling it healing.

Because abstaining is not healing.

Recovery is different.

Recovery means you are actively solving the reason you wanted to escape in the first place.

It means rebuilding your brain chemistry with real nutrients.

It means processing the emotions you were drinking over.

It means building a life you actually want to be present for.

One of those is a waiting room.

The other is a way out.

Sober keeps you stuck in the waiting room.

Recovery walks you out the door.

Which one are you actually doing?

06/05/2026

Gahhhhh - 1 week away. So excited 😆. Register NOW @ poplarcreek.org/events if you haven’t already done so, or if you haven’t signed up through your support group! SEE THE POST ABOVE 👆🏼 FOR FULL INFO.

05/29/2026

Time to get that registration in so we have enough food! See the pinned post above for full information. 🧡