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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…
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Embrace the Adventure of Living Life FREE !
Read more: Embrace the Adventure of Living Life FREE !April is alcohol-awareness month and I would like to invite you to join me in celebrating awareness with an alcohol-free month. I’ve had a long and colorful relationship with alcohol but I’m now happily retired from my illustious drinking career and that is worthy of celebration. My first taste of alcohol was during my senior…
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Blackout – A Boom Community Book Club Selection
Read more: Blackout – A Boom Community Book Club SelectionApril is Alcohol Awareness month in the U.S. and I’m thinking of the absolute opposite of awareness… alcohol-related blackouts. I often drank to the blackout stage, probably because I crammed my drinking of large quantities into pretty short periods. Remembering the last hour of my evening was impossible. Usually, I drank at home, but that…
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Early Sobriety Survival Skills
Read more: Early Sobriety Survival SkillsThese quick-relief actions give me a sense of control over my environment and give me an alternative to opening a beer … #aprilisalcoholawarenessmonth #sobercurious #quitdrinkingapp #alcoholfree
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Feel Like You Can’t NOT Drink?
Read more: Feel Like You Can’t NOT Drink?When I first stopped drinking I recall endless questions and scenarios racing through my head : “What about Christmas? I can’t NOT drink?!” “My birthday is in a few months, maybe I’ll wait and start “sober” after?” “Crap, summer months: I drink A LOT, and with our hotel customers, what will happen? These people bring…
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Perspective from Sober at 60
Read more: Perspective from Sober at 60Why did I decide to quit drinking? I used to point fingers at other people’s problems with alcohol instead of looking at my own drinking. I had a real problem being truthful with myself. It was hard to admit but I had a lot of growing up to do once I put down the bottle.…
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10 THINGS SOBRIETY HAS TAUGHT ME
Read more: 10 THINGS SOBRIETY HAS TAUGHT MEI think it would be fair to say that the last few years have been a little tricky for humankind. The last few years have been full of pain and fear and disconnection. News and pictures of political tension, global warming, and war are hard to escape. I know, for myself, this can sometimes feel overwhelming.…
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
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