My recovery memoir 'Love Me Sober' is available now
How I broke up with booze & came home to myself
As I moved through the magnificently rough and glorious early days of getting sober (January - May 2022), I kept detailed journals of my most private and astounding experiences day by day. Those early days of my recovery from alcohol addiction were the most miraculous, confronting, gritty, and beautiful of my entire life. Over the past year and a half since, I spent a great deal of time and care curating the most raw, deep, and poignant essays into a downloadable memoir titled Love Me Sober: How I Broke Up With Booze & Came Home to Myself which is now available for purchase* at this link.
I’m offering this memoir as an ebook download** for a few reasons. I have published through Amazon in the past and the cut they take off the top is steep, so I end up making very little. Also, I’ve shopped this book to a few publishers and while I’ve received accolades on the writing itself, the market for sobriety memoirs is heavily saturated these days and so it’s tough to get published by traditional publishers, too. In the big picture, that’s a very cool problem to have, right? So many of us women are getting sober and sharing our stories. I can only say how brilliant it feels to be able to offer my voice as one among many. We are changing the world. I really believe it.
So I thought instead of letting this heartfelt memoir, an intimate story about saving my own life, which I’m so deeply proud of and eternally grateful I have the privilege to tell, sit in the darkness of a drawer in my writing room, I could offer it to you in this very accessible way. I am eternally uplifted because you are here with me. Thank you.
I want you to know what it was like for me to get sober because what it means to get sober is that you feel all of your feelings and they surprise you, and challenge you, and transform you in ways you could never have imagined. I want you to know that no matter who you are or why you’re here, you can change your life by running right into its wide open arms instead of running away from what scares you. Facing your biggest fears really will set you free. And by that I mean: free to be who you truly are beyond the fear, beyond the pain, beyond your wildest dreams.
To me, every sober story is another voice proclaiming: You do not have to be afraid. With my whole heart, I believe that Love Me Sober: How I Broke Up With Booze & Came Home to Myself will make you feel seen, empowered, and inspired. I hope that it makes you laugh and cry, and above all helps you find your way back home to yourself. That elusive place you were searching for all along.
In all my love & gratitude,
Allison
*Author’s Note 1: If you are a paid subscriber to this newsletter please check your inbox for a separate email which contains the code for you to download this memoir at no cost to you.
**Author’s Note 2: This full length book is offered through my teachable.com website as a downloadable ebook. You are not enrolling in a course or program, but the site may require you to provide your email address and create a password so that you can access the memoir ebook now and at anytime in the future.
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Allison Marie Conway is a Certified Professional Life Coach with a specialization in Addiction Recovery Coaching, working primarily with women who want to quit drinking. As a creative and resourceful woman living an intentional life of sobriety, Allison brings her deep compassion for those who struggle with alcohol addiction, and her unique life experience in navigating the ups and downs of sobriety, to her beloved work. She is also a published author (Luminae, 2018, Love Me Sober, 2023), wife, mother, mentor, and addiction recovery advocate. Before opening her private practice in 2023, Allison worked in the professional corporate environment for over twenty years, excelling in supporting C-Suite executives for well over a decade. She earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Liberal Arts & Sciences from Pennsylvania State University. Allison grew up in and around northeast Philadelphia, and currently lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with her husband, John, of sixteen years.