This memoir in poetry describes my journey into and through sobriety.  It is divided into three sections.  The first contains poems from my 20s and 30s, when I needed both booze and men to make  me whole.  The second focuses on my early years of recovery as I found myself and woke up to my life and the many small joys it always held.  The third is about the losses I’ve experienced in sobriety and how I lived through them without a drink or other substance to numb the pain.  All together, they describe the journey of self discovery that the AA program makes possible - and indeed seems a requirement for continuous sobriety.