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Drinking to Get to the Bottom of Things?
Read more: Drinking to Get to the Bottom of Things?I often drank to get to the bottom of things. Do you know what I mean? When you don’t feel right. When you’re feeling a bit stirred up or a bit down. When there are things going on and you don’t know what you feel or think about it but you don’t feel right. I…
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Questioning Labels
Read more: Questioning LabelsAm I an Alcoholic? I can’t even tell you how many times I Googled that question over the years. That and, “Do I have an alcohol problem?” I didn’t want to be an “alcoholic.” I didn’t want to have a “problem”. I didn’t want to be thought of as someone who couldn’t control herself. I…
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Not My Circus Not My Monkeys
Read more: Not My Circus Not My MonkeysHow do you stop drinking at problems when you go alcohol-free? What are the reasons I drank? Alcohol had become my ‘go-to’ for all life’s ups and downs. I’m not alone in that. That’s why many people drink alcohol. So what are the reasons you need to drink alcohol? Have you found any of them…
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Once Upon a Sunday Night
Read more: Once Upon a Sunday NightI wrote this about 5 years ago when I first decided to quit drinking. I thought I would share it with you today, for you may be steps behind me on this same frustrating journey: You know the path – deep down, there is something you must change, but if you admit that, your entire…
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Drinking Myself Away
Read more: Drinking Myself AwayWhen I was drinking, and particularly as I approached the end of my drinking career, I was a faded, bloated, mess. My skin and hair were dry and dull. My nails were cracked and brittle. My eyes had no sparkle. My face was constantly puffy. I looked tired. All. The. Time. Where I was once…
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Don’t Drown in Pandemic Drinking – Lock the Alcohol Out
Read more: Don’t Drown in Pandemic Drinking – Lock the Alcohol OutI read an article in the Los Angeles Times that made me extra grateful I decided to stop drinking when the pandemic lockdowns started last spring. The article was titled – As alcohol abuse rises amid pandemic, hospitals see a wave of deadly liver disease – The implications about pandemic drinking are terrifying–and the patients…
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Never Running Out and No Longer Running Away
Read more: Never Running Out and No Longer Running AwayI never thought it possible when I quit drinking but actual days and weeks go by and I don’t think about it at all now. I used to think about drinking, and then not drinking, and then more drinking literally every day! This morning on my way to work I thought to myself “ how…
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Tuned-In to the Kaleidoscope of Life at 4 Months Sober
Read more: Tuned-In to the Kaleidoscope of Life at 4 Months SoberWhen I was a “life of the party” drinker, I spent a lot of time at bars and house parties. I had a particular fondness for dive bars. The darker and divier the better. I spent all my free time drinking with the same boring people in the same boring places and behaving in the…
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One Step Removed From Alcohol – Walking the Walk in my Sober Shoes
Read more: One Step Removed From Alcohol – Walking the Walk in my Sober ShoesI’m 85 days alcohol-free today, not for the first time, but in this second try at staying sober long term, I’m starting to feel a little different. It’s a bit odd but welcome. I feel like I’m finally walking the walk in my sober shoes. Like a step has been removed from my path to alcohol…
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Learning Self-Care in My First 100 Days Alcohol-Free
Read more: Learning Self-Care in My First 100 Days Alcohol-FreeIt drives me crazy when I see alcohol marketed as a self-care necessity. Absolutely nothing could be further from the truth. I’m over 100 days alcohol-free now and feeling great but boy oh boy, did I ever neglect myself when I was drinking. I mean, I neglected pretty much everything when I was drinking, but…
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