About Haler Smith

Why Haler Smith

I got sober at 20 years old in 1999. I landed in AA, went to a ton of meetings, worked the Steps, found a Higher Power, and today try my best to give it away each day. When the pandemic hit and shut the world down, and there were no more in-person meetings, I imagined that is what it was like for the pioneers of AA. Not a lot of meetings, if any, just phone calls, if you knew someone else in AA.  But largely, you prayed like hell to the new-found Power you have in your life. “Meeting Makers Make It” is nice in the beginning, but if you don’t work the steps and establish and maintain a relationship with a Higher Power you will drink again. At best, you’ll be miserable, at worst you will die. This is a life and death disease, you can’t get around that.

I want to create a community where we not only celebrate sober milestones and promote the basics of early sobriety, but share experiences finding and maintaining a relationship with a Higher Power. Other sites and social media accounts just celebrate milestones, and I want to do that too, but I want to go deeper. I will share how I show up in life and regularly fall short of the ideal, how I didn’t lean on my Higher Power for strength, where I lived and acted in Fear and didn’t have Faith, and what actions I took to correct the mess I made.  I also want others to share how they leaned on their Higher Power to solve their problems. Failing and learning is living life on life’s terms and living in the principles of steps 10, 11 and 12. I am not perfect, neither is anyone else. Failure is part of sobriety, and your Higher Power is the only one that has the strength to solve our problems.

I hope that my personal experience and the experiences of others in this community will help someone identify with being an alcoholic and ultimately get to a meeting to start their recovery journey or spark a new fire in those already in recovery who aren’t as happy as they think they should be.

My Story (short version)