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Coming Home to Myself at 7 Months Sober
Read more: Coming Home to Myself at 7 Months SoberI just flew sober for the first time in my adult life. Maybe that doesn’t sound like a big deal, but after 26 years of associating air travel with airport bars and the cocktail cart, I was afraid that I couldn’t handle flying alcohol-free. Rather than checking in and numbing out I was awake and…
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My Sobriety is a Threat to My Addiction
Read more: My Sobriety is a Threat to My AddictionThis realization came to me on one of my last sober stretches. I was doing great, hopped in the shower, and BAM, my brain started unleashing every hurt followed by the fear of facing them sober. It almost knocked the wind out of me. I have kept some painful truths tucked away in there and…
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Smokey Bear Was Right
Read more: Smokey Bear Was RightIn this brave new world of sobriety, there seem to be a myriad of misnomers for our interaction with alcohol. Throughout the drinking years, I got used to throwing some of them around in order to deflect a reality I wasn’t ready to accept. Moderation? Moderate drinking? I’d like to set myself straight once and…
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Breathe and Keep Moving – Gaining Momentum in Early Sobriety
Read more: Breathe and Keep Moving – Gaining Momentum in Early SobrietyThe second time I took physics in college I had a great lab partner, and the simple experiments we did (probability, gravity, refraction, polarization, momentum) fascinated me. I loved the concept of momentum, which is defined in physics as “the tendency of a moving object to keep moving.” The first time I took the course,…
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The Art of Living Sober is a Skill that Takes Practice
Read more: The Art of Living Sober is a Skill that Takes PracticeLiving sober flows pretty easily for me these days and it’s a vibrant, empowering way to live, but for years, when I was trying to stop drinking, my experience with the process was anything but rewarding. It was so frustrating! I promised myself over and over and over that I wouldn’t drink that day, or…
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4 Secrets to Staying Sober that I Uncovered in my First 6 months Alcohol-Free
Read more: 4 Secrets to Staying Sober that I Uncovered in my First 6 months Alcohol-FreeI remember when I first joined the BOOM Community hoping to get help to stop drinking, reading posts from people saying they’d made it a year, a month, a few weeks alcohol-free even, and I thought they were some sort of wise old sages with a secret to staying sober that I didn’t have. And…
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Disarming the Booze Beast – A Creative Approach to Staying Sober
Read more: Disarming the Booze Beast – A Creative Approach to Staying SoberTo most people drinking represents freedom and fun. Feeling down? Have a drink! Want to relax? Have a drink! Troubled by the worries of adult life? Check out with a bit of wine time! You have to look hard to find the opposite message, the message that if you stay sober, there is more joy…
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Be the Hero of Your Own Story – Inspiration for a Sober Father’s Day!
Read more: Be the Hero of Your Own Story – Inspiration for a Sober Father’s Day!Sober Father’s day? If you’re like me, Father’s day was just another excuse to see how shit-faced I could get. But let’s be real. If your brain is bubbling in a cauldron of crap, you can’t truly be present to show your loved ones how much you appreciate this day of adoration. Here is a little…
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Tips and Tools for Your First Month Sober Part 2 – Day 12 thru 16
Read more: Tips and Tools for Your First Month Sober Part 2 – Day 12 thru 16Getting sober and eventually staying sober, can feel almost mythically impossible. How do you stop drinking and stay sober when you love to drink but the drinking doesn’t love you anymore? What works ? How do you get through that first month sober when drinking has been a daily release for years? For many people…
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Dry July is Worth a Try If You’ve Ever …
Read more: Dry July is Worth a Try If You’ve Ever …In a world full of conflicting messages about how and why we should drink, a world where health-conscious people are encouraged to continue choosing alcohol and ignore the risk, in a world where Mommy’s Time Out wine is drunk at Wine O’clock, there is a drink for every occasion and every occasion requires a drink.…
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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- 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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