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Your Scars are Beautiful – Moving Toward Emotional Sobriety with Inspiration from Kintsugi
Read more: Your Scars are Beautiful – Moving Toward Emotional Sobriety with Inspiration from KintsugiEmotional sobriety is the long term healing achieved in the years that follow going sober. Emotional sobriety is not a guarantee when you stop drinking, but it is the thing that makes living sober an empowering freedom rather than an endless slog of wishing you could drink like the rest of the crowd. Emotional sobriety…
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Diffusing the A in HALT or How to Stop Drinking AT people
Read more: Diffusing the A in HALT or How to Stop Drinking AT peopleMy sober momentum has been saved on many occasions by remembering that HALT – or the sensations of feeling Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired, are my biggest triggers to slip and drink. Hungry – Angry – Lonely – Tiredif you are hungry – eat – don’t drinkif you are angry – breath – don’t drinkif you are lonely– reach out – don’t drinkif…
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What Does it Take to Stay Sober – Grabbing Ahold after Slips, Slides and Relapse
Read more: What Does it Take to Stay Sober – Grabbing Ahold after Slips, Slides and RelapseMy aunt told me she once asked a coworker what it took for him to get sober and his answer was, “It took every drink it took.” I think about that a lot. In my previous attempts to let go of alcohol, I’ve gotten stuck in the “one size fits all” idea of recovery. The…
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I Can Do Anything – Single Parenting Sober
Read more: I Can Do Anything – Single Parenting SoberI’m my early days of sobriety I was struggling. Single parenting sober, trying desperately to meet all the demands of two small children while going through some real Huge emotions, working at a country club and being surrounded by alcohol on a daily basis…I just needed to not be needed. I was feeling overwhelmingly vulnerable…
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How to Stay Sober on Election Day and at Other Times of Stress and Crisis
Read more: How to Stay Sober on Election Day and at Other Times of Stress and CrisisThere has never been an election day in the United States like this one. We are as divided as it is possible to be and both sides see catastrophe if the other wins. There is an energy of distrust in the air and the disturbing possibility that determining the winner may be a long, painful…
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Alcoholism is … ?
Read more: Alcoholism is … ?What is alcoholism? Am I an alcoholic? I grew up seeing men sitting contently on “their” bar stools in dark quiet bars, playing the football pool, getting each other to help with construction jobs or house repair, shooting the shit, and letting loose. Bars and booze were the vital source of adult life and freedom…
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How I Escaped the Trap of Gray Area Drinking
Read more: How I Escaped the Trap of Gray Area DrinkingBy the time I became a daily drinker, my youngest child was in high school and my older ones were youngish adults. I was happily married and satisfied with my life. I wrote poetry and had quite a bit of it published, gave readings, put together a chapbook, traveled when I had the chance. I…
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Easing out of the Battle to Stay Sober
Read more: Easing out of the Battle to Stay SoberI spent over 2 years battling with my addiction to booze and my drinking got worse before it got better. Over those 2 years of slipping while trying to stay sober, I ended up hating booze so much. Until the triggers happened and the cravings called. Then booze was once again my adult comforter. After…
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The Tipping Point – Choosing to Stay Sober Despite the Triggers
Read more: The Tipping Point – Choosing to Stay Sober Despite the TriggersI couldn’t control my drinking and alcohol was beginning to control me. I was at my tipping point but couldn’t see a way out. I wanted to make the choice to stop drinking, to open a door to a different future, but I could not imagine how .
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The Definitive Alcohol-Free Party Guide – Enjoy the Party and Stay Sober
Read more: The Definitive Alcohol-Free Party Guide – Enjoy the Party and Stay SoberOne of my biggest fears when I went alcohol-free, was that if I couldn’t drink, I would never again enjoy hosting parties. I love to entertain and so do my friends. The only time that I had ever attended parties sober, or thought to offer alcohol-free options when I entertained, was when I or one…
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