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Find Your Way Out – Let’s Get Real About Dangerous Drinking
Read more: Find Your Way Out – Let’s Get Real About Dangerous DrinkingDrinking alcohol is something that is so ingrained in our expectations of a normal way to live, that it takes some pretty dramatic shake-ups for us to rethink how dangerously we drink. In 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, our governments locked us down. As we began to stay home to protect our health…
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30 posts for 30 days To Help You Quit Drinking
Read more: 30 posts for 30 days To Help You Quit DrinkingA big fear of mine when things shut down in Spring 2020 was being without booze. When we first locked down to prevent the spread of Covid19, many of our governments deemed alcohol an essential item, and I was comforted that drinking away the Covid lockdown blues would be celebrated as a natural reaction to…
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I am NOT the Lie Alcohol Had Me Believing I Was
Read more: I am NOT the Lie Alcohol Had Me Believing I WasWhen I was drinking I was in a very dark place. At first, the darkness was a quiet place that I craved. I allowed the darkness to consume me, even welcomed it at times, because I thought I had control of it. But before long I lost control and was completely buried by alcohol’s hold…
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Too Much Vodka Under the Bridge
Read more: Too Much Vodka Under the BridgeSometimes I think back to what it was like. The phone calls, the screams, the fear in my throat wondering what the person ringing me was talking about. The fear of betraying someone and doing it anyway. The Dr. visits with hands gripping each other tightly. Being slumped zombie-like over the couch. The sad goodbye…
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6 Perspectives on Feeling the Feels – Emotional Regulation in Sobriety
Read more: 6 Perspectives on Feeling the Feels – Emotional Regulation in SobrietyI’ve always thought that I drank to numb. To avoid. To not bloody feel. And that was true some of the time. But I don’t think the story ends there. I think sometimes, we drink to feel. We can sometimes drink to a very emotional level. Emotional regulation up and down? Ever been the drunk…
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4 Posts to Get You EXCITED About Living Alcohol-Free in 2022
Read more: 4 Posts to Get You EXCITED About Living Alcohol-Free in 2022Have you made a resolution to stay alcohol-free in 2022? Congratulations! You can say good-bye to hangovers and welcome the gentle morning in. Alcohol-free means Hangover Free! and there are endless benefits to never again waking up feeling like this. Toward the end of my drinking career, I had horrific, soul-crushing hangovers. I had countless…
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Sobriety? It’s not Magic it Just Feels Like it Sometimes
Read more: Sobriety? It’s not Magic it Just Feels Like it SometimesI had trouble quitting alcohol the first few tries. I wouldn’t or couldn’t stay sober very long. It was too easy to just give in when I had a craving. But this time around, I was determined to make it work. I decided to CHOOSE sobriety. A Letter to my Drinking Self 13 months ago…
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22 Posts to Get You Started on Staying Sober in 2022 – Part 2
Read more: 22 Posts to Get You Started on Staying Sober in 2022 – Part 2Have you decided to go sober in 2022? If you are thinking about stopping drinking that is a good beginning, but actually going alcohol-free when you’ve been drinking habitually can be overwhelming. If your New Year’s resolution is sobriety in 2022 it’s important to do some groundwork. The groundwork that worked for me when I…
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22 Posts to Get You Started on Staying Sober in 2022 – Part 1
Read more: 22 Posts to Get You Started on Staying Sober in 2022 – Part 1I was talking with a friend this morning who mentioned that she was going to write down 22 things she hoped to achieve in 2022. What a great idea! I searched the internet to see if I could find the motivational author she mentioned that suggested that idea, and it looks like a lot of…
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12 Posts for Your Pocket to Help You Celebrate the Holidays Alcohol-Free
Read more: 12 Posts for Your Pocket to Help You Celebrate the Holidays Alcohol-FreeLast year, several of the long-term members of our private and anonymous BOOM Rethink the Drink Community shared their “Posts of Sober Christmas Past”. Those posts were moved to our public Boozemusings blog archive to reach out with the message YES YOU CAN enjoy the holidays alcohol-free. Here is a selection of 12. It’s a…
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.
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