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Start Where You Stand
Today I discovered a quote, hidden in a 2009 email written to myself, where I was struggling with drinking, moderating, and perhaps abstinence? Simply, it said: “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command,and better tools will be […]
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4 Inspiring Short Videos to Celebrate Living Alcohol-Free
Hearing that phrase used to make me cringe. It is a celebratory phrase. A hopeful phrase. A phrase that conjures up promise and joy. Yet because I had heard that phrase associated many times with Alcoholics Anonymous it carried with it the stigma I felt when I thought about alcoholism, and the need to go […]
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The Day I Turned My Life Around
Not so long ago, I couldn’t imagine going a day without drinking. I drank 1-2 bottles of wine a night (or more). I remember feeling “proud” of myself when I came down to find that I hadn’t quite finished the second bottle, an inch of wine still left. What restraint I had shown! On a […]
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How Do You Help Someone Stop Drinking Before it’s Too Late? What if It’s You?
When I was nearing the point where I had to stop drinking, or risk losing myself to alcohol, I turned to my Google bar and searched “what is a high functioning alcoholic?”. Like many people who develop a potentially life destroying problem with alcohol I was able to continue drinking heavily night after night because […]
