In my first months sober people would often tell me to fake it till you make it. When you’re in early sobriety and finding it hard to be without drinking, or when you’re facing that blah sort of, what now, feeling that comes and goes through the first year alcohol free, pretend that you are
At five years openly sober I have friends and family who still unwittingly try to enable me to drink. They don’t mean to hurt me. They want the best for me. But to them, the best thing for me is being able to drink when I want to and stop when I want to, and
It strikes me that my first 100 days sober were a sort of phase 1. What can I say about those hundred days now, looking back? Were they ok? Brutal? Easy? Hard? Wonderful? Painful? Blurry? I suppose the answer is: ALL OF THE ABOVE. For the first sober month or so I did nothing but
A lot of us try to meditate and feel we fail or don’t get it. We try to meditate and don’t feel the benefit and it’s frustrating and boring to bother having another go. That was and is still is me much of the time. I have a busy impatient brain that is hard to
Have you ever wondered if you’re an alcoholic? But you know that you’re too high functioning to be that? Do you need to stop drinking or just maybe slow down? Do you drink alone?Do you crave a drink when you got home?Do you drink to control your emotional state?Do you get annoyed if you have
