<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Narratives on Walking in Sober Boots</title><link>https://soberboots.org/tags/narratives/</link><description>Recent content in Narratives on Walking in Sober Boots</description><image><title>Walking in Sober Boots</title><url>https://soberboots.org/soberboots/assets/uploads/2023/07/img_1290.jpg</url><link>https://soberboots.org/soberboots/assets/uploads/2023/07/img_1290.jpg</link></image><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:37:44 -0400</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://soberboots.org/tags/narratives/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Speaking My Truth, and My Truth Only</title><link>https://soberboots.org/2018/10/22/speaking-my-truth-and-my-truth-only/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:37:44 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://soberboots.org/2018/10/22/speaking-my-truth-and-my-truth-only/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href="https://soberboots.org/soberboots/2016/02/19/my-story/"&gt;story&lt;/a&gt; is pretty unspectacular. The abbreviated version is that I began drinking heavily in response to some unresolved trauma from my childhood triggered by the birth of my son. I subconsciously knew this at the time of my drinking and after getting sober I know this to be true to fact. I hadn&amp;rsquo;t always been a heavy drinker, there were times when I&amp;rsquo;d binged, but by my early thirties, I was pretty mellow.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>