Hi, I’m Lori…
You’ve found a space dedicated to you! More specifically, to showing you a path that will put you in charge of your own happiness. I didn’t start this journey because my life fell apart. I started it because my life looked pretty good…but something still wasn’t quite right.
I was capable, responsible, and productive. I showed up. I anticipated needs. I did all of the things I promised and expected the very same thing from others. But guess what?
Expectations = big trouble. Because when they aren’t met, they lead to the root of all addiction — RESENTMENT.
I had become resentful because other people weren’t measuring up. But everything changed when I realized I couldn’t blame anyone. My job became figuring out how to live from the inside out — where happiness is no longer dependent on anyone or anything else. I’d love to show you that path.
Through years of personal work, deep conversations with people in recovery, intentional connections, spiritual exploration, and honest self-examination, I discovered the 10 Guiding Principles of Emotional Sobriety. These principles are not theory. They are lived, tested, and practiced daily.
1. Responsibility: I cannot control anyone other than myself.
2. Discernment: I follow my inner wisdom, not my inner wounds.
3. Emotional Honesty: I can’t heal what I won’t feel. The only way to is through.
4. Connection: Connection is protection. Life is not meant to be lived in solidarity.
5. Boundaries: Boundaries guard my heart and protect my peace and power.
6. Integrity: I take responsibility for living with a clean heart.
7. Compassion: I extend grace to myself and others.
8. Love, Faith, and Service: When love and faith lead, service follows naturally.
9. Belonging: We are all connected and sacred equals.
10. Peace: Peace flows abundantly when I am aligned with love.
Emotional sobriety teaches how to stop managing everyone else’s feelings and to finally tend to your own. It’s the freedom that comes when you realize that no person, relationship, or achievement was ever meant to be responsible for your happiness.
This space is for those ready to live emotionally sober, grounded, and free—one honest step at a time.
I’ve written a book called No Mud, No Lotus
Below is an excerpt that reveals “my kind of drunk”. It may have been from a different kind of margarita, but it was a drunk just the same. If you’d like to stay in touch, please sign up to be a part of the email list to begin the journey yourself.
Real Life Recovery Stories
Real Life Recovery Stories
What is emotional sobriety, anyway?
Letting Go of the “If Only” Trap
Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “If only they’d change… if only I had this… then I’d be happy”? That’s the cycle of looking for something out there to fix what’s happening inside — a way to escape or numb emotional pain. But happiness is an inside job.
I know this struggle. My search for peace took me on a journey through life’s biggest question: What is standing in the way of my happiness?
Learn how to find the path that truly sets you free.
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