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Grab Ahold and Don’t Let Go
Read more: Grab Ahold and Don’t Let GoToday, I am almost one full year sober. Over 300 days ago, I quit drinking in an intentional way for the first time! Quitting drinking in the past was a “time out”, or a hard reset, which I would put myself on only when I got out of control or filled with regret. Then I…
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From Shame to Pride – One Year Sober
Read more: From Shame to Pride – One Year SoberHow does it feel to be one year sober? It hasn’t been easy getting here. I’ve found this first year without using alcohol as a buffer, draining at times. It’s been an emotional rollercoaster. When I was drinking, I didn’t realize that it was the alcohol that isolated and diminished me, leaving me with a…
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Don’t Eat The Marshmallow – Thoughts on Taking Back Your Power
Read more: Don’t Eat The Marshmallow – Thoughts on Taking Back Your PowerToday I was thinking about how powerless I felt when I was drinking. I think I have felt powerless for most of my life. As a child, I had no control over anything. We moved constantly, sometimes in the middle of the night because the rent was not paid. I went to bed not knowing…
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Can You Become Indifferent to Drinking?
Read more: Can You Become Indifferent to Drinking?I’ve been sober almost continuously for a year and a half. I’ve had a minor slip or two, but they’ve been inconsequential and strangely detached from my former drinking habits and patterns, as if I was not involved in them like I used to be, but separate from the experience. Distance, in general, allowed me…
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You are Worth so Much More than Alcohol can Give
Read more: You are Worth so Much More than Alcohol can GiveOn New Year’s Eve, 2023, I started drinking early. We had already thrown four Christmas parties, and I had been in an absolute binge since the day before Christmas Eve. The only thing making the days manageable was more booze. I hated it. I hated that I couldn’t stop drinking. Alcohol was in control. I…
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Join Us In Discussing The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Read more: Join Us In Discussing The Artist’s Way by Julia CameronWhen I had my first “now what?” moment after I was one-year sober, I started reading The Artist’s Way. I have gone back to it a few times over the past 4 years, and it always changes me. It is a creative jump-start which challenges us to see ourselves as artists, no matter how we…
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Imagine the Possibilities of Living Free
Read more: Imagine the Possibilities of Living FreeHungover, and feeling like shite on the morning of 31 December 2023; I promised myself that I would not “feel like this” in 2024” The bottle(s) of wine, the lazy sofa, bad food, snacks, drunken pancake making; passing out; being an arsehole; snoring; waking up at 4am; dry mouth – urgh. Hangover the next day;…
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What Does it Mean to Have an Addictive Personality?
Read more: What Does it Mean to Have an Addictive Personality?Someone recently said to me that she “feels so lucky to not have an addictive personality”. This statement sat with me for a while. I believed for as long as I can remember that I was one of those unlucky ones.. the one who got stuck with an “addictive personality”. I must be doomed. I…
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I Used to Give Booze a Lot of Credit that it Did not Deserve
Read more: I Used to Give Booze a Lot of Credit that it Did not DeserveWhen I stopped drinking for Dry Feb. in 2021, going sober for a month was not even my idea. My husband decided to commit to Dry Feb. first, and announced his intention in to me in December 2020. It took weeks of heavy drinking up to, and through the Christmas season and January, for me…
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Join us in Discussing The Shining by Stephen King
Read more: Join us in Discussing The Shining by Stephen KingIn Stephen King’s book On Writing there is a section beging on page 94 that talks about his addictions and his recovery, and what both the addictions and the recovery have meant to his life and craft. It starts with this … “Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes. I spentthe first twelve years…
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