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An Ode to Freedom From a Newly Sober Mum
Read more: An Ode to Freedom From a Newly Sober MumMummmy was a misfit, the girl with bright red hairShe didn’t find life easy,Despite her parents care Always feeling out of placeNot quite there, some other place And as the teenage years approachedShe found the bottle and it spoke: “Come dance and playI’ll set you free,No need to fear when you’re with me” And so…
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I Know There’s a Pony in Here Somewhere! Sober Survival Skills
Read more: I Know There’s a Pony in Here Somewhere! Sober Survival SkillsWhen life gives you excrement You know the tale (tail?) of the optimistic child who saw lots of horse excrement in the barn and was so excited he started shoveling because: There’s a pony in here somewhere ! For us ( those of us trying to stop drinking and stay sober), booze is the excrement…
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A Lazy Girls Guide to Sober Momentum – An Alcohol Free Gift to You
Read more: A Lazy Girls Guide to Sober Momentum – An Alcohol Free Gift to YouWere you offered a bottle of wine as a gift for International Women’s Day? Specialty wines made for women, and made by women are all the rage. Women are celebrated as influencers in the wine industry, but according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2020), alcohol is killing us. As recently as…
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Sobriety Is About Filling the Void with Love
Read more: Sobriety Is About Filling the Void with LoveWe sober up and sober up. Wonder why this keeps happening. Sometimes more help is needed. We act out because of past experiences we had way back as kids when we had no tools to reframe and heal. Imagine my surprise when I put down the bottle, got grief counseling and childhood experiences were entangled…
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Outrunning the Cravings in Early Sobriety – How to Build Sober Momentum
Read more: Outrunning the Cravings in Early Sobriety – How to Build Sober MomentumI could feel my heart beat rising, chest tightening, feeling as if I needed to force myself to breathe. My skin crawling, mind racing… panic. If I just had one drink right now this feeling would go away, right? But I can’t. I don’t drink anymore. And the realization that I couldn’t have what I…
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6 Months Sober – Flying Away from the Drinking Obsession
Read more: 6 Months Sober – Flying Away from the Drinking ObsessionI will go to bed early, sit in the shower until the water turns cold., smoosh my face into my cat’s fur until she starts grumbling. I will do yoga videos, sit ups, push ups, and squats. I will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to not drink today.
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Recovering from Slips in Sobriety
Read more: Recovering from Slips in SobrietyI had a slip in my sobriety earlier this week. I drank as I thought that alcohol could still offer me something. I was bored and frustrated and wanted to feel a buzz. What I discovered was that alcohol did not deliver what I’d hoped for. It made me feel dulled down and tired, and…
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Sober Momentum – Alcohol Free is Freedom
Read more: Sober Momentum – Alcohol Free is FreedomIt started out slow, but alcohol’s affects built momentum in my life. Drinking begets drinking … gains force by motion of each glass swallowed, often triggered by a series of events (a.k.a. life). Definition of momentum 1: a property of a moving body that determines the length of time required to bring it to rest…
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3 Sober Screen Shots
Read more: 3 Sober Screen ShotsSober Screen Shot #1 : The Power of one – I screenshotted this from my sober app earlier in the week- I like numbers and symmetry. 1 year, 1 month, 11 days sober !!! There is a book called the Power of One, and part of the concept is: “The Power of One is above…
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Grateful for the Gift of Desperation
Read more: Grateful for the Gift of DesperationIs it possible to be grateful for alcoholism? Is there really such a thing as the gift of desperation? Over the years I have read blog posts all over the internet about people being grateful for their alcoholism once they stop drinking. It is often called the gift of desperation. They believe that without the…
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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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