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Sober Girl’s Guide to the Festive Season and Christmas Freedom
Read more: Sober Girl’s Guide to the Festive Season and Christmas FreedomChristmas loneliness is something that I’ve become accustomed to as a single parent. It can be especially hard to deal with loneliness if you are newly sober during this festive season. Drinking, loneliness, and the festive season went hand in hand for me. The holidays gave me a free pass to drink. Festive drinks. Different…
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Grateful for the Simple Gift of Sobriety in my Second Alcohol-Free Holiday Season
Read more: Grateful for the Simple Gift of Sobriety in my Second Alcohol-Free Holiday SeasonI want to breathe into my sadness when it comes up, cry when I need to, bake a few cookies for my husband and me, and decorate my tree without running for the bottle when the memory each ornament evokes threatens to overwhelm me. I want to live in the moment before me, with clarity,…
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How I Stopped Drinking – Calling Out the Truth of What Alcohol Was to Me
Read more: How I Stopped Drinking – Calling Out the Truth of What Alcohol Was to MeWhy did I stop drinking? I bought the wine o’clock as me-time ideal. I was the woman who could do everything, did do everything, and deserved a drink or 2 at the end of the day. I didn’t use alcohol to self-medicate because I had repressed issues. I drank because it was my reward and…
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Finding Empowerment in Demystifying Sober
Read more: Finding Empowerment in Demystifying SoberI struggled with my drinking for years, even after it became obvious to me that I had a problem with alcohol, because I felt like I needed to drink. Alcohol had always been a part of the landscape in my world. Alcoholism was discussed in my family as something that could be in my future…
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Evolving From my First Sober Christmas – Anger, Nature & Miracles
Read more: Evolving From my First Sober Christmas – Anger, Nature & MiraclesI’ll never forget my first sober Christmas. It’s a tough gig being sober in the Christmas season! I think a lot of us are feeling triggered by all the booze around at this time of year : social media, commercials, posters, parties, stacks and stacks of booze at the end of supermarket aisles. And then…
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Sober Focus – Finding the Truth About Alcohol and Drinking Culture Through Writing and Community
Read more: Sober Focus – Finding the Truth About Alcohol and Drinking Culture Through Writing and CommunityThe man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, the drink takes the man – is a saying that has been attributed to F Scott Fitzgerald, but is also said to come from Ireland , or perhaps it’s a proverb from Japan or China. Wherever those words came from, they tell the story of…
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From Resentment to Joy – Reaching Out as I Begin my 3rd Alcohol-Free Holiday Season
Read more: From Resentment to Joy – Reaching Out as I Begin my 3rd Alcohol-Free Holiday SeasonIt’s the day after Thanksgiving and I don’t have a hangover. I’m sitting here eating pumpkin bread, sipping coffee and thinking of Thanksgivings past. I quit drinking February of 2018, making this my third alcohol-free holiday season. Every year on Thanksgiving I’d start drinking in the early afternoon, my elegant wine glass close at hand…
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Sober I am no Longer the Victim in the Tragedy of my own Making
Read more: Sober I am no Longer the Victim in the Tragedy of my own MakingWhen you see the love of your life sitting in front of the fire with a lovely glass of wine and he invites you to join him, and you are dead from exhaustion and stress – walk straight upstairs and promptly jump into the bathtub! With clothes on if need be. Then brush your teeth!…
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Tips and Tools and Great Alcohol-Free Drinks to Celebrate the Holidays Sober
Read more: Tips and Tools and Great Alcohol-Free Drinks to Celebrate the Holidays SoberIf you are celebrating your first sober holiday season and struggling a bit, here are some tips and tools to stay alcohol-free. Socializing during early sobriety can feel daunting. Socializing during the holidays when you’re newly sober can feel undoable. At least that was how I felt in the early days. The following are a…
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Staying Sober? Tips to Help Celebrate the Holiday Season Alcohol-Free
Read more: Staying Sober? Tips to Help Celebrate the Holiday Season Alcohol-FreeTriggers to drink are everywhere between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Seductive images of wine, champagne, and golden liquor in crystal snifters are pasted on kiosks, billboards, and posters in store windows. The bottles in the shops will be called Holiday Cheer and wrapped in gold with a bright red bow. It can also be especially…
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