Charity Faye Alexander
Bio
Advocate for living a clean and sober life, and currently daydreaming of hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu.
Twitter: @sober_charity
IG: @cfaye.graffiti
Stories (19/0)
The Ingredients of Grace
There is a coffee and bakery shop downtown in Xenia OH, known as the “City of Hospitality.” I found Coffee Hub the first week after I graduated and moved out of Women's Recovery Center back in February of 2018. WRC is a drug and alcohol treatment facility for women. That place saved my life, and this place that I’m about to show you made life more bright.
By Charity Faye Alexander3 years ago in Motivation
The Unknowing Night Owl
He was running. God, he was running so fast. “Have I always ran this fast?” It’s been 2 years and 11 months since Marcus had seen anything else outside his two man cell and the occasional time spent outside in the yard. Serving a ten year sentence for manslaughter, Marcus, or “Night Owl” as his cellie liked to call him due to the fact that he was up late every late, had been devising up a plan to break out of prison and head south. Just south. No actual plan beyond escaping, and getting as far away as his feet would take him. Maybe he’ll change his identity and get a job as a cook in a night club somewhere in Tampa. Maybe he’ll run into someone at said night club and score a good paying job as a roofer or something. He was good with his hands, and aside from being a fantastic cook, he was also a skilled craftsman. He wasn’t worried about the struggle of what came next. Just getting the hell away from Powhatan Correctional Center.
By Charity Faye Alexander3 years ago in Criminal
Fancy, Healthy, and Still Sober
I'm a recovering alcoholic, so I don’t drink alcohol. The holidays can be a little tense. It looks fun, what everyone else in the room is participating in. You know, tasting the different wines and all. My cousins wife brings a crock pot to Thanksgiving and Christmas every year that she uses to brew up some fancy, warm apple pie flavored wine. I've never tasted the wine. I'd like to be able to try it without loosing my freaking mind, but that's not a thing and I'm not confused about it.
By Charity Faye Alexander4 years ago in Feast
Time for this Cherokee Woman to Visit the Sun
After the year I've survived, a solo road trip is just what I need to reinvent myself, for myself. 2021, it is ok to show me why it all had to happen. But first, we're heading to Nantahala National Forest in Bryson City, North Carolina to do some hiking, and spend some time listening to the sun.
By Charity Faye Alexander4 years ago in Wander
Why I’m Thankful For The Falls
I can't believe I actually understand this now. I could not see this 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, even 2 months ago! I was trying so hard to make some stuff work that was just never supposed to work! Yes, I'm aggressively saying this! It was freaking exhausting, and I failed miserably at all of it. Or did I?
By Charity Faye Alexander4 years ago in Motivation
The Jams: Workout Playlist 2020
I am really excited to share my completely manic and sometimes highly emotional workout playlist with you all! Fitness is such a massive section of my life. It is my most utilized form of therapy. You could even call it church. People run to church to get prayed over, to be healed, so then I guess you can also say the gym is like the ER unit. We go there to get better. That's a badass way of looking at it.
By Charity Faye Alexander4 years ago in Beat
