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I am Curious
Read more: I am CuriousWhen I think about all the things that helped me get and stay sober, the no. 1 was Curiosity. You see, in 2015, at the age of 62, I have to admit I’d never done this before: never quit drinking, never considered I had a problem, never done a dry January (beyond my wildest imagination!).…
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The Cardboard Box
Read more: The Cardboard BoxLast night, while cleaning out a storage room, I found my life. It was in a dust covered cardboard box on a forgotten shelf in a room I seldom enter. The box was worn and torn at the corners and the tape meant to hold it together had lost its grip and was peeling away…
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Booze Equations or Why I Subtracted Wine from my Time
Read more: Booze Equations or Why I Subtracted Wine from my TimeWhy do I want to stop drinking and live sober ? When I boil it down to simple equations it helps me remember : Booze + Me = No off button….. almost always drinking far too much Me – Booze = No more stressing about how much I have already drank and then making myself…
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Walking From Darkness Into Light
Read more: Walking From Darkness Into LightI had a very long and twisted relationship with alcohol. It gnawed away at the best of me. Sometimes it took really large obvious chunks but mostly it was like that boiling a frog anaolgy. A slow corrosion of me, the real me, the true authentic me that was put on this Earth to do…
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The Key is Endurance
Read more: The Key is EnduranceEvery time you stop, you learn a little more about what sober is. So tonight I stopped in at a local grocery store to get a few things. It’s the freestanding kind that has a liquor store in it. The thought of going in to buy alcohol didn’t cross my mind, any more than walking…
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Mummy’s Wine Time
Read more: Mummy’s Wine TimeWhy did I stop drinking? I wasn’t a blackout binge drinker and I didn’t come close to hitting any kind of rock bottom. I just decided it was time to take a break from the booze. As a mother and as a woman my wine time wasn’t serving me well anymore. My mum was congratulating…
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Breaking the Spell of Wine o’Clock
Read more: Breaking the Spell of Wine o’ClockI think that it was the author Lucy Rocca who coined the term Wine Witch. Belle, who writes the blog Tired of Thinking about Drinking, came up with a malevolent wine o’clock voice named Wolfie. In the Rational Recovery program, the smiling assassin’s Drink Now voice is called The Feast Beast. And indeed, what I…
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Easter Morning Perspective
Read more: Easter Morning PerspectiveI’ve been musing about recovery and how, perhaps it follows the template set by Jesus’s resurrection two millennia ago (I’m a nonchurch-going Christian, fyi). Jesus had been in the desert for 40 days, praying and preparing, knowingly, for his death. He was tempted many times by the devil, but pushed away wealth, power and status,…
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Sleep Solutions
Read more: Sleep SolutionsMany people in early sobriety seem to struggle with sleep issues. The response I recieved to this letter was a terrific help to me and I share it often.
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Alcohol Cravings and Hypoglycemia
Read more: Alcohol Cravings and HypoglycemiaWhen trying to stop drinking, regardless of our degree of dependence on alcohol, many of us experience cravings at a ‘witching hour’, often between 4 and 8 pm. I used to think this was just because it was a habit to have a drink after a long day. We ‘deserved’ a drink and so had…
The Boozemusings Community Blog is written by a diverse group. We are current and former members of the BOOM Rethink the Drink community where we also blog privately, in an anonymous, supportive forum. If you’re drinking too much too often Find us HERE for connection and support when you need it. Life is too short to waste it being wasted.
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- Are You Sober Curious ?
- How to Stop Drinking
- A Family History of Addiction
- Alcohol the Seductive Beast that Kills
- Alcohol, Brain Chemistry, Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
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- Staying Sober
- Sober Milestones
- An Alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and Traditional Recovery
- Debunking the Glamour of Mommy’s Wine Time
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