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The Two Miracles That Helped me Stop Drinking and Stay Sober
Read more: The Two Miracles That Helped me Stop Drinking and Stay SoberToday I am celebrating 3 months sober. I’m 3 months alcohol-free and that freedom is something well worth celebrating but I am MAD! I am so mad at the big lie that is alcohol. I am so mad that alcohol gets its hooks into people and won’t let go, and that turning your back on…
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Finding the Courage to be Vulnerable
Read more: Finding the Courage to be VulnerableI drank to make myself invulnerable. At least I thought that alcohol would make me invulnerable. Each time I opened a bottle it was my intent to build a barrier between myself and stress, sorrow, loneliness, even the mundane blah that is sometimes day to day life. But the effect of alcohol was actually the…
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But I can’t be an alcoholic! I didn’t hit rock bottom!
Read more: But I can’t be an alcoholic! I didn’t hit rock bottom!Many problem drinkers carry a mental picture of “rock bottom,” the place we think we have to fall before we can become free of alcohol for good. AA popularized the idea that we can’t get (and stay) sober until we lose everything that matters to us. Accepting that you’re an alcoholic, hitting rock bottom, and…
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Beating Peer Pressure to Stop Drinking and Stay Sober
Read more: Beating Peer Pressure to Stop Drinking and Stay SoberRemember being a child, getting caught being naughty by your teacher, and when she asked WHY did you do it… you responded with, He started it first! And maybe he did? Maybe you succumbed to peer pressure and did something you knew you shouldn’t, hoping you wouldn’t get caught. Most of us succumbed to peer…
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Finding the Courage to Go Sober
Read more: Finding the Courage to Go SoberHave you ever heard alcohol described as liquid courage? When you were young were you told to drink like a man, or that booze would put hair on your chest? As a young woman, I often took pride in drinking dangerously. I associated drinking with my badass identity. But it took far more courage for…
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16 Lessons I learned when I Stopped Drinking
Read more: 16 Lessons I learned when I Stopped DrinkingI was sober last year for 6 months – almost. I say almost because I had 2 nights of drinking in that time so I wasn’t 100% text book sober. I was not what most people would call an alcoholic but I was pretty committed to going alcohol-free. For one reason or another my life seemed…
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Comparison Shopping – To Drink or Not to Drink?
Read more: Comparison Shopping – To Drink or Not to Drink?When someone stops drinking, and people around them notice there’s a change, how to react can be a hard balancing act. It’s kind of like when you meet a friend that you haven’t seen in awhile, and they’ve lost a considerable amount of weight. You can tell that she’s lost weight, but why? Is she…
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Beating Back Alcohol Cravings
Read more: Beating Back Alcohol CravingsAlcohol cravings come and go throughout the first months of sobriety. If you are in your first month alcohol-free, whether doing Dry July or a longer stretch, by day 20 most of your nightly cravings for alcohol have likely become manageable. But the occasional devil on your shoulder, that little voice in your head, can…
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Sober Evolution from Surrender to Service
Read more: Sober Evolution from Surrender to ServiceI woke up this morning and for the first time in the last couple weeks I wasn’t filled with panic, anxiety and fear. It was a moment of surrender. It brought back that moment with my sobriety. When I surrendered to the fact that I had a problem; I accepted I couldn’t drink, I accepted…
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The Power of Alcohol, Dry July Day 19, Alcohol-Free Inspiration
Read more: The Power of Alcohol, Dry July Day 19, Alcohol-Free InspirationOn Day 19 of Dry July, if you have coasted along with no serious sense of deprivation, with no slips or slides, CONGRATULATIONS! That is great! But if you are struggling to stay alcohol-free today consider how over-inflated the importance of alcohol is in our culture. Why do we give so much power to alcohol?…
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- Are You Sober Curious ?
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- A Family History of Addiction
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- Sober Milestones
- An Alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and Traditional Recovery
- Debunking the Glamour of Mommy’s Wine Time
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