Recovery Tattoo
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 14,319
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.
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.
Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 5,225
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.
I do try to avoid offensive thigns tho like I woudlnt get a topless women or something in plain sight.
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 14,319
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
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
Member
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 2,950
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.
"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.
Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 5,225
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.
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.
Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 5,225
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.
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: "I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost ..."
Posts: 5,273
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
quat
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: terra (mostly)firma
Posts: 4,803
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
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
waking down
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 4,641
Some ideas here? recovery tattoos - Bing images
Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: South Bay, So Cal
Posts: 5,661
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.
Thriving sober since 12/18/08
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 3,115
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
(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
Thriving sober since 12/18/08
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 3,115
(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).
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 14,319
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?
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?
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