​If you can get sober, you can boil water and make soup!   Just assemble the ingredients and follow directions. In long-term sobriety, we gain the skills to navigate anything and everything.  If you can adhere to a sober lifestyle, you can learn to braise, simmer, boil, and clarify. Soup saved me. Coming home from work exhausted, flushed with a head cold, and faced with needy children was my trigger point. Overtired and overwhelmed at day's end, I longed for the relief of a