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You Have to Do Your Part : One Year Sober
Read more: You Have to Do Your Part : One Year SoberOne year ago I found myself literally on my knees I was hungover once again. My self-loathing in full swing I was desperate for it to end. I was so despondent that I begged my higher powers for the strength to become sober and to stop the self-loathing. I should clarify that communicating with my…
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Thought for the Day : Sober Courage
Read more: Thought for the Day : Sober CourageI used to imagine myself staring my fear down and feeling so vulnerable without alcohol, like I was left out in the open bare, without any weapons or shield. Any arrow could pierce me in an instant. Now I believe that my sobriety is the most important defense of all. It gives me strength beyond…
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Feelings are like Lighthouses
Read more: Feelings are like LighthousesI think the toughest thing to deal with when we get sober, is the onslaught of feelings. The normal human reactions and responses that we medicated for years, or decades. Christ, they come at us like huge waves in the first couple of years, no doubt about it. Sometimes tsunamis. It’s one of the reasons…
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Top Ten Things you can Do to Help Maintain Sobriety
Read more: Top Ten Things you can Do to Help Maintain Sobriety10. Know that you CAN succeed in sobriety. This is not a seven-foot-high jump. It’s not “rocket science”. It’s just NOT drinking alcohol. Never let Little Voice con you into thinking, “I can’t do this.” Horse manure! Tell Little Voice to, “Stuff it!”. 9. Visualize yourself not drinking. If you’ve slipped, think back and figure…
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Top Ten Random Tips on having a Great Alcohol-Free Weekend
Read more: Top Ten Random Tips on having a Great Alcohol-Free Weekend10 Raise the “barrier” to drinking. Don’t keep alcohol at home. Don’t carry enough cash to buy booze. 9. Don’t skip meals. Eating healthy 3-4 times a day reduces alcohol cravings. 8. Act like you are in charge. Don’t think or talk like a victim, someone who can’t stop drinking. Actually, alcohol is powerless –…
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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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Thought for The Day
Read more: Thought for The DayThe love of your life is a snake in your bed. He offers you escape from all the big meanies and scaries, while he quietly tightens the noose around your neck and the bindings on your wrists and ankles. When others try to save you from him, he whispers in your ear “They don’t know…
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Sitting with the Contradictions
Read more: Sitting with the ContradictionsAs I write this now I feel just so and happy and proud for having resisted the cravings of a Saturday night because what’s on the other side of that makes it all worth it. And what was once a garden of earthly delights is now a minefield. I’ve made a commitment to myself to…
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The Only Way to Fail is to Stop Trying
Read more: The Only Way to Fail is to Stop TryingI’ve been free from the shackles of alcohol for over three years now and my oh my has life changed in the most wonderful of ways. Yet that amount of time ago, plus one day, I was gripped by an addiction to alcohol that had overtaken my life. Drinking was my favourite thing! Or at…
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Do you Want to Drink or Do you Need to Drink? – Dropping the Denial
Read more: Do you Want to Drink or Do you Need to Drink? – Dropping the DenialWhen I was deep into my years of drinking heavily most nights and regretting it most mornings, I developed a routine of carefully saying “I’m drinking because I want a drink. I don’t NEED a drink I want one”. I was consciously saying WANT instead of NEED because if I admitted to needing a drink…
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