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Done4today 11-22-2016 04:37 AM

Recovery Tattoo
 
Any cool recovery tats out there?

Maudcat 11-22-2016 04:43 AM

No tats. Too old. Love to see some, though.

aasharon90 11-22-2016 05:11 AM

I was never interested in getting tattoos
until I turned 50 and now a few more yrs
down the road, I have quit a few lovely
tattoos.

I don't look at being to old to get them,
but look at it as a way to express art
and wearing them on skin.

Not everyone will like them and
that is okay with me. I am the one
who has to wear them, live with
them and to be honest, I forget I
have them half the time. :)

Yes, I have sobriety tattoos, tattoos
with sobriety/recovery expressions
on them.

Many many vibrant, colorful, tasteful,
lovely flowers, roses, birds, butterflies,
words, all very feminine for this southern
lady living in recovery. :)

Got an appointment for next month
for my belly button birthday for a
new back piece with 2 large roses
and 2 butterflies, just one of many
pictures I researched on google for
traditional or old school pics.

Soooooo many saved and so many
to choose from that I am totally
excited for each new tat I want
and appreciate as a gift in sobriety.

Hope you find one that you like
and will treasure for a life time to
come. :)

zjw 11-22-2016 05:11 AM

i have my sobriety date in roman numerals on my one wrist and "be present" on the other wrist. They are good reminders for me.

zjw 11-22-2016 05:13 AM

aasharon i never got a tattoo till i got sober too lol. I thought about it what will people think Oh my and i thought ya know if i get passed over at a job interview becuase the person interviewing me is so narrow minded i'm probably better off not working there.

I do try to avoid offensive thigns tho like I woudlnt get a topless women or something in plain sight.

aasharon90 11-22-2016 05:29 AM

I hear ya zjw.... being brought up stern, having
tattoos and piercing back in the day was a no
no and you would live to regret it.

So all that negativeness drilled into me
from a small age, I never wanted one.
Same thing with pets. However, when
I got sober and yrs down the road, I raised
2 cats, my babies who lived and passed
on a good life. They were my gifts in
recovery that I was glad to have been
able to experience and be thankful for.

When I was close to ending my 25 yr
marriage and living in Houston for 10
yrs, I had a glimps of a tattoo while working
and was inspired. Once I returned home
here to Baton Rouge and met my now
husband, I learned how to ride a motorcycle,
got my endorsement, and got my first
tattoo, many one days sober down the
road.

The more time I have sober, the older
ive gotten, life still gets interesting. :)
Never imagined id have all my pretty
tattoos and have ridden to Sturgis and
Daytona for bike week on the back
of a Harley in my life today. :)

I did have my tats working in a pretty
bakery here and customers admired
them, bosses didn't mind as long as they
were covered, but I wanted to show
them off the best I could.

I eventually retired from the working
force and now feel even freer than I
ever have. lol

BrendaChenowyth 11-22-2016 06:39 AM

Well I've been toying with getting a Beatles lyric, maybe across my upper back, I thought maybe in arabic, but now i think maybe backwards, so you'd have to read it in the mirror...

"Living is easy with eyes closed / misunderstanding all we see"

Maybe just the first part.. but the whole statement is really meaningful to me, it is the way my life has been before sobriety.

BrendaChenowyth 11-22-2016 06:40 AM

I once saw a foot with "one step at a time" tattooed on it.. and then my one girlfriend from nursing school has "just for today" on her wrist.

zjw 11-22-2016 06:41 AM


The more time I have sober, the older
ive gotten, life still gets interesting.
Never imagined id have all my pretty
tattoos and have ridden to Sturgis and
Daytona for bike week on the back
of a Harley in my life today.
hehe thats awesome!! there was a line from a movie i think it went something like "we dont get a life we live one" I'm finding thats the best way just live your life do your think expierience this or that if thats your fancy etc... lifes too short to always say no to everything.

zjw 11-22-2016 06:44 AM

and yeah i too grew up in a house where tattoos and piercings where taboo. I dunno i think all i was taught about how bad tattoos and piercings are was BS. I've countless good folks who have tattoos and piercings it seems naive to me to prejudge someone over them.

soberlicious 11-22-2016 07:40 AM

I have a full sleeve, upper back "To Thine Own Self be True", some song lyrics on one ribcage side, and shoulder to waist daisies on the other ribcage side, a small wrist cuff with some inspirational words (equanimity, freedom, peace, etc) in Devanegari, a small ankle tat with my boys' names (they are also in my sleeve) and some tiny stars on my foot. I might be considered fairly heavily tatted for someone my age, but I still have plenty of skin left for more artwork :)

dwtbd 11-22-2016 07:43 AM

I got my first tattoo a year after I quit, had been toying with the idea of getting 'inked' for awhile but wanted something meaningful and not 'just' ink. As an anniversary/celebration I had the word "sufficit" in an ambigram wreath tattooed on my upper arm. My recovered tat :)
This year I had da Vinci's Virtuvian Man tattooed on my calf with a "Thing 1" placard place for modesty(lol) , an 'everyone has their things , but underneath we are all human' kinda thing :) , I put some pics in my photo album

zerothehero 11-23-2016 06:50 PM

Some ideas here? recovery tattoos - Bing images

BarbieKen 11-23-2016 09:23 PM

Our son has, "Everything Will Be Ok" in script on his forearm. Just his way of taking life ODAAT. It works for him. He celebrated his 8th year in Recovery in September (sober birthday is one day after belly button). He just turned 25.

flutter 11-24-2016 08:06 AM

Yes! I incorporated a lotus flower to symbolize my recovery in a larger tattoo that I have- let me go find a pic :) (for those who don't know, lotus flowers have long symbolized new beginnings- they grow from murky muddy pond bottoms and emerge as a beautiful flower). BRB

flutter 11-24-2016 08:09 AM

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...e2&oe=58B59600

(the pink ones are lotus flowers- the blue flower is my son's birth flower, a chrysanthemum, and the elephant... well because I am obsessed with them, and to me they represent strength, loyalty, family).

aasharon90 11-24-2016 08:28 AM

Burning Lotus is the name of the Tattoo
Shop I go to get my tattoos so I too am
familiar with the Lotus Flower which is
one of many flowers I love.

Your back peace flutter is beautiful and
bet you get lots of compliments on it from
other tattoo enthusiasts like us. :)

What an awesome way to express ones
own recovery/sobriety then with a great
tattoo. It is something to enjoy till death
due us part. Right? :)

dwtbd 11-24-2016 10:13 AM

Flutter, that's gorgeous, the detail on the elephant is phenomenal.

Fluffer 11-24-2016 11:43 PM

yes, that's some beautiful work there.

soberlicious 11-25-2016 07:41 AM

I remember when posted about getting this, Flutter! It's simply breathtaking! I, too, have a lotus incorporated into my sleeve.


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