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Are You Maybe Sober Curious? An Invitation to Imagine The Life that Sobriety Cultivates
Read more: Are You Maybe Sober Curious? An Invitation to Imagine The Life that Sobriety Cultivates2 years ago, while searching around the internet for help to stop drinking, I stumbled over some words that were not at all what I expected to be reading. The title of the article was pretty straightforward, Guide to your First Month Sober: Why and How to Quit Drinking, but there was little in it…
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Want to Stop Drinking? Blog Away from “Wine o’Clock”
Read more: Want to Stop Drinking? Blog Away from “Wine o’Clock”Sobriety 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” storefronts” that they often are now. They…
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Freely Feeling – Sober the Highs and Lows
Read more: Freely Feeling – Sober the Highs and LowsSober and Freedom, are not two words that I have often put together. Did I expect to feel free sober? No! Freedom was one of my biggest mental blocks to quitting drinking because for so long I framed alcohol as providing freedom. Freedom to be myself, freedom to shirk responsibility, freedom to be an adult, and make…
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Looking Back from 5 Months Sober
Read more: Looking Back from 5 Months SoberI think it’s important to look back- from 5 months sober – to that place I was before. You know that place we go, that one that leaves us so scared and lonely and cut off. Those days /nights where you’ve drunk so much and you’re getting louder and slurring your words, and you’re repeating…
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Are You Ready to End Your Abusive Relationship With Alcohol?
Read more: Are You Ready to End Your Abusive Relationship With Alcohol?Today is an important day for me. Today is my son’s birthday. He is already in his 30’s and that’s how long my relationship with alcohol pushed him out the way. For a large part of his life, I wasn’t present. Oh, I was there – but I wasn’t there for him. Because I was…
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Who am I Without Alcohol?
Read more: Who am I Without Alcohol?Yesterday was my three-month Soberversary. Honestly, it’s both hard to believe that I am three months sober and hard to believe that I ever drank at all. It’s a very strange duality. I’ve been thinking a lot these last couple of days about something that I’ve read frequently in Quit Lit books, that I’ve heard…
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Lessons From the Middle of the Lake in Year 3 Sober
Read more: Lessons From the Middle of the Lake in Year 3 SoberLong-term sobriety is still not without its significant challenges and temptations and I need to write them down for myself. Today I participated in a 10 km swim – one that I started doing annually with a group of friends a few years ago. We all showed up at the lake at 5:00 am. Just…
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FALLING INTO DARKNESS TO FIND THE LIGHT – Slipping but Not Sliding in my 3rd Year Sober
Read more: FALLING INTO DARKNESS TO FIND THE LIGHT – Slipping but Not Sliding in my 3rd Year SoberWhen I Stopped Drinking I Worried That I Would Someday Slip into Relapse This is a story I hoped that I would never have to tell, but telling my story, including the triumphs and the failures, is the accountability that has helped me stay sober. Nine days ago, in my third year of sobriety, I…
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From I Can’t to I Won’t to I Don’t Drink -Celebrating 6 Months Sober
Read more: From I Can’t to I Won’t to I Don’t Drink -Celebrating 6 Months SoberOn my six-month sober anniversary, what can I say to help if you are trying to stop drinking? I can tell you alcohol lied to me. It told me it was helping me. I believed it for way too long. Then I started to listen to my truth-telling inner voice which said…
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A Test of Your Alcohol Awareness – What is Normal Drinking?
Read more: A Test of Your Alcohol Awareness – What is Normal Drinking?Today I saw an article about “Alcohol Awareness” pop up in my Facebook feed. When it comes to drinking, what is ‘normal’? At first, I clicked on the comments; I was saddened by how many people commented in a negative way – promoting binge drinking and mocking sobriety. But rather than get discouraged by the…
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- Are You Sober Curious ?
- How to Stop Drinking
- A Family History of Addiction
- Alcohol the Seductive Beast that Kills
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- Staying Sober
- Sober Milestones
- An Alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and Traditional Recovery
- Debunking the Glamour of Mommy’s Wine Time
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