Author: Boozemusings Community

  • Quitting Drinking Opened My Eyes

    Quitting Drinking Opened My Eyes

    I used to think it was okay to drink wine as long as I worked it off the next day. I told myself I didn’t need to quit drinking as long as my little personal trainer had me run wind sprints from her jogging stroller by putting her hands in the air and telling me…

  • How to Recover from Relapse, Slips and Slides when you go Sober

    How to Recover from Relapse, Slips and Slides when you go Sober

    Two years of sobriety allowed me to become everything for myself that I had spent my whole life searching for in everyone else. And yet I slipped and slid away from that precious sobriety. The first time I got very serious and declared my sobriety, I dove head first into quit lit. I scoured the…

  • Surrender

    Surrender

    I want to be healthy, calm, content, and grounded. I want to flow through life with clarity, purpose and integrity. I want to treat my body with respect and kindness. I want to be fully present for myself and my loved ones. I want to be free. But then I drink. The alcohol buries all…

  • The Mask

    The Mask

    All she’s ever known. Because all she’s ever known is poisoning her body and her mind, in some way, for as long as she can remember…. So now calm feels scary,and peace too unfamiliar,and happiness too fleeting,and so….The self sabotage begins well before the new changes can become habit. Because the pain feels like home,the…