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Self Image and Change -Alcohol-Free Inspiration
Read more: Self Image and Change -Alcohol-Free InspirationDrinking alcohol is essential to a life well-lived. At least that is what we are taught. Long before we are old enough to drink legally we see adults drinking at every important event, every recreational activity, every party, and in many families, every night. If you get to the point as an adult where you…
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Ditching the Shame When You Go Sober
Read more: Ditching the Shame When You Go SoberWhen I was drinking I lived in a cloud of shame. I had no idea how heavy that cloud was until I stopped drinking. I self-medicated stress, and anger, loneliness, and simple boredom with alcohol. I drank to celebrate and drank to socialize and felt shame that I lost control of how much I drank.…
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Alcohol-Free and Loving Me! Dry July 2020, Day 17 Inspiration
Read more: Alcohol-Free and Loving Me! Dry July 2020, Day 17 InspirationIn our online community BOOM Rethink the Drink, we host monthly alcohol-free challenges that start with Dry January. Remember New Year’s Day? January 1st, 2020? It seems like we lived in a different world at the beginning of this new decade. Just a few months ago things were simpler. Life was simpler. Everything felt so…
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Courting My Wild Twin or My Self-Reconciliation in Sobriety
Read more: Courting My Wild Twin or My Self-Reconciliation in SobrietyThis week I’ve been reading Courting the Wild Twin, by Martin Shaw, which explores the myth that we all have a wild twin who was tossed out the window when we were born, and who carries with them much of our own wildness and vitality. Old folktales about our wild twins encourage us to mend…
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How Do You Tell People You Are Not Drinking?
Read more: How Do You Tell People You Are Not Drinking?One of the great things about doing an official alcohol-free marathon like Australia’s Dry July or Ocsober, is that you have an excuse not to drink. It is strange that we NEED an excuse not to drink alcohol but as anyone who has gone alcohol-free will tell you, people tend to question WHY you are…
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6 Documentaries to Help You Rethink Alcohol Use and Abuse
Read more: 6 Documentaries to Help You Rethink Alcohol Use and AbuseThere are several documentaries on alcohol misuse and abuse that I think are well-balanced and reflect an experience that many of us can relate to. Wine o’Clock from Australia, Risky Drinking from the United States, and Drinking Yourself to Death made in the UK, all do a terrific job of profiling different levels of what is often called alcohol-use-disorder. They offer…
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Alcohol-Free Inspiration
Read more: Alcohol-Free InspirationI am participating in Dry July as part of a long-term plan to stay alcohol-free. I didn’t have a “rock bottom”. No DUI. No severe accidents. No crazy behavior that resulted in family drama. No waking up in bed with a stranger. No, nothing that crazy. I just got tired of how my entire life…
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Shame, Alcohol and Sobriety
Read more: Shame, Alcohol and SobrietyDoing nothing and feeling everything. With everyone stuck at home in revolving lockdowns during this pandemic, we have nowhere to look but inward and maybe backward hey? Which can be useful (ish) at highlighting our regrets and shame that maybe we’ve been pushing down, ignoring. Shame is something that most people struggle with when they…
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Dry(ish) July 2020, Day 14 Alcohol-Free Inspiration
Read more: Dry(ish) July 2020, Day 14 Alcohol-Free InspirationA Dry(ish) July? Dry July in Australia is not about committing to sobriety long term. It is a month-long challenge to raise money for people affected by cancer, like running a marathon. There has always been an out written into the rules of Dry July. Even if you commit to the 31 days alcohol-free you…
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You Deserve Another Chance – A Sober Dance
Read more: You Deserve Another Chance – A Sober DanceBefore I went sober, when I was drinking, I would wake up most days and immediately evaluate: how hungover am I ? Here were the usual options: 1) Oh good, I only had 3/4ths of a bottle last night. Slight wine head, slight dry mouth and eyes, but nothing too bad. 2) Oh my head,…
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- Are You Sober Curious ?
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- Debunking the Glamour of Mommy’s Wine Time
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