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The Hungry Ghost : Evolving Away from Childhood Pain
Read more: The Hungry Ghost : Evolving Away from Childhood PainLike some of you, I have a difficult time knowing when to stop drinking. As someone here in the Boozemusings Community has put it so well, “My off switch is broken.” I would add that in my case, that off switch is a problem sometimes, but not all the time. I have not hit rock…
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My Shiny Black Dragon
Read more: My Shiny Black DragonHow I Stopped Drinking by Writing it Out I have a shiny black dragon curled up sleeping in my brain. He’s resting over my right ear. It took about six months alcohol-free for him to really fall asleep and my first sober Christmas at eight months tested him a bit, but sleeping he is and…
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I Am Walking Away From the Pain
Read more: I Am Walking Away From the PainI’m not long into this current incarnation of being Alcohol-Free. And there are days I wonder if it is necessary. My tack this time around is to say, ‘well…if you want that sidecar, we can do that tomorrow, sweetcakes. Right now, let’s just let this hibiscus tea steep.’ So far that – combined with a…
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Top Ten Lies Drinkers tell Themselves and Others
Read more: Top Ten Lies Drinkers tell Themselves and Others10. I have to drink; It’s the only way I can handle [fill in problem here]. – Of course drinking doesn’t “handle” anything, it just puts off having to handle it, and adds another problem. 9. My body can handle alcohol better than normal people, so I can drink more. – Handling alcohol is not…
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We Fight Back Together
Read more: We Fight Back TogetherThe difference between how we perceive addiction to alcohol, and how we perceive addiction to cigarettes is striking. Drinking is glamorized and normalized. As we see it in our culture, people drink because that is what people do! People smoke because they are addicted. If someone becomes addicted to alcohol we consider it to be…
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Who Am I
Read more: Who Am IWho am I? A question I have asked myself many times over my life. If I think carefully and honestly, the answer has never changed. What has changed is my reluctance to accept the answer. As we grow we learn many things about ourselves. We also learn what others expect of us and the visions…
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The Gift of Not Giving Up
Read more: The Gift of Not Giving UpWhen we embark on this journey of losing the booze and look honestly at the trainwreck elements of our drinking life, it’s very hard to see the benefits, apart from our physical and mental health. Life looks like a small speck of light at the end of a long tunnel. As we do the work,…
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Hard Selling the “Wine Time” Routine is Deadly Business
Read more: Hard Selling the “Wine Time” Routine is Deadly BusinessIn honor of Anne Hathaway’s elegant statement on the Ellen Degeneres show that she would not drink until after her son is an adult, not because she claims to be an alcoholic but simply because she wants to be present in his world without the morning after fall out of “not drinking well” , we…
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A Vacation From Not Drinking ?
Read more: A Vacation From Not Drinking ?Recently we went to friends for dinner. I’ve had an injury that means I have been unable to do all the things I now do with my life instead of drinking like exercising, horsemanship and so on. For the first time in a long time the ‘oh it would be nice to have a drink…
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Top Ten Signs you might have a hangover
Read more: Top Ten Signs you might have a hangoverThis “Top Ten Post” was shared to the Boozemusings Community by @Ira from HSM. 10. You would rather have a pencil driven through your eye than be exposed to sunlight. 9. Trying to gain control of the situation, you continue to tell your room to “stay still.” 8. Looking at yourself in the mirror induces…
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