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Don’t Drink Your Dreams Away
Read more: Don’t Drink Your Dreams AwayWhen I was drinking I would often forget going to bed and falling asleep. I didn’t understand it at the time, but for several years before I stopped drinking I was hitting the pillow most nights in various stages of alcohol-induced blackout. In laymens terms an alcohol-induced blackout happens when you’ve drunk enough alcohol for…
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A Book Club About Much More Than Quit Lit
Read more: A Book Club About Much More Than Quit LitFour years ago I followed an article on how to stop drinking to an online community called BOOM. My early days in the Boom Rethink the Drink Community were life-saving. I devoured every post shared in the app, and I unabashedly shared my story, my fears, and my eventual success. I also found a new…
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It’s Never Too Late to Change- Perspective from 3 Years Sober
Read more: It’s Never Too Late to Change- Perspective from 3 Years SoberIt’s a bit surreal to me that I ended up sober. Whoever heard of a sober musician who worked as a bartender and chef? My whole life seemed to revolve around the next drink or party. I had more fun drinking than I should have ever been allowed. But it started going south at some…
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Join Us in Discussing Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Read more: Join Us in Discussing Untamed by Glennon DoyleI first read Untamed by Glennon Doyle Melton when it was released in 2020. The way she wove her sobriety into the bigger picture of her life spoke to me in so many ways. I immediately read every other book of hers. In Untamed Glennon discusses what she calls “My One Thing” and that one thing…
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Desperate to Quit Drinking…
Read more: Desperate to Quit Drinking…Not so long ago, my life was full of “if onlys.” If only my life wasn’t such a mess. If only I had more money. If only I weren’t so lonely. If only I could find a better job. If only, if only, if only. The biggest “if only” of all was, “If only I…
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Walk With Me Into Lasting Change
Read more: Walk With Me Into Lasting ChangeThere is a quote that is shared often in online sober support groups ; and another that appears routinely is : If nothing Changes, nothing changes When you’re trying to stop drinking and stay sober, lasting change can be elusive. Nothing is worse than a consistent, continual, years-long hangover, yet people struggle to stop drinking…
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How Sober Life Became Jubilant for Me
Read more: How Sober Life Became Jubilant for MeIn the online community that I host to help people reach their goals of stopping drinking or cutting down on alcohol, we have a theme every month to give the year some structure. A sober life can be a daunting thing to imagine. Most people who are new to living life alcohol-free like to have…
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Join Us in Discussing the book Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
Read more: Join Us in Discussing the book Chasing the Scream by Johann HariI first read Johann Hari’s book Chasing the Scream, in September 2016. I was 18 months sober and working with my orchestra on a cruise ship. While my colleagues were all enthusiastically enjoying the all-you-can-drink hospitality I found refuge in the ship’s library. I had read a lot of what is often called “quit lit” in…
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Top Sobriety Blog Posts to Help You Stop Drinking and Stay Alcohol-Free
Read more: Top Sobriety Blog Posts to Help You Stop Drinking and Stay Alcohol-FreeSobriety blogs, and blogs in general, have evolved a lot since I read my first post on Unpickled back in 2015. In 2015 blogs were mostly personal, an expression of an individual’s ideas or experience enthusiastically shared in this new forum of the internet. Blogs had not yet become the”store fronts” that they now are.…
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An Alcohol Awareness Month Public Service Announcement
Read more: An Alcohol Awareness Month Public Service AnnouncementAlcohol is… Alcohol is not a wonderful magic potion. It’s just a drug. I would love to get the word out; to undo the misinformation and the manipulation by alcohol advertising which creates false expectations of how “good” alcohol will make you feel and how it’s “just what you need”, because “you worked hard for…
The Boozemusings Community Blog is written by a diverse group. We are current and former members of the BOOM Rethink the Drink community where we also blog privately, in an anonymous, supportive forum. If you’re drinking too much too often Find us HERE for connection and support when you need it. Life is too short to waste it being wasted.
Featured Pages
- Are You Sober Curious ?
- How to Stop Drinking
- A Family History of Addiction
- Alcohol the Seductive Beast that Kills
- Alcohol, Brain Chemistry, Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
- Emotional Sobriety
- Staying Sober
- Sober Milestones
- An Alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and Traditional Recovery
- Debunking the Glamour of Mommy’s Wine Time
“It was a random day of internet searching that brought me to Boozemusings Blog and to Boom Community, and my life has been changed by it. I needed some kind of “epiphany” for a mind change, and I have learned things about alcohol and its physical effects that have given me that kind of enlightenment. I check in several times a day and it is like meeting with my family. The resources here are incredible, and inexhaustible. I have quit lit books, etc. Will check out some of the other resources in others’ responses, but for me, Boom has been the answer. I feel it has to do with the tireless work of Boom’s creators. Thank you, Boom!!!!!!!”
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