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The Tipping Point – Choosing to Stay Sober Despite the Triggers
Read more: The Tipping Point – Choosing to Stay Sober Despite the TriggersI couldn’t control my drinking and alcohol was beginning to control me. I was at my tipping point but couldn’t see a way out. I wanted to make the choice to stop drinking, to open a door to a different future, but I could not imagine how .
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The Definitive Alcohol-Free Party Guide – Enjoy the Party and Stay Sober
Read more: The Definitive Alcohol-Free Party Guide – Enjoy the Party and Stay SoberOne of my biggest fears when I went alcohol-free, was that if I couldn’t drink, I would never again enjoy hosting parties. I love to entertain and so do my friends. The only time that I had ever attended parties sober, or thought to offer alcohol-free options when I entertained, was when I or one…
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I Was Afraid to Stop Drinking
Read more: I Was Afraid to Stop DrinkingThere are many reasons that people find it difficult to stop drinking. Most of us think that the difficulties lie in breaking a bad habit or fighting addictive tendencies. But I was literally afraid to stop. There are several reasons that I was afraid to “not drink”…. 1. Stopping drinking meant I had to…
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I Choose Freedom – Escaping the Alcohol Trap
Read more: I Choose Freedom – Escaping the Alcohol TrapBefore I stopped drinking alcohol one of my greatest anxieties was that of wondering how people perceived me. That no matter what I have done or achieved in my life it would be overshadowed by the persona of a person that drank too much alcohol and acted erratically when they drank it. That ultimately this…
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Step Back from the Edge – Getting Back to Sober after Relapse
Read more: Step Back from the Edge – Getting Back to Sober after RelapseGetting back to sober after a long relapse has not been easy for me. I’m an instant gratification person. When I finally stopped drinking 105 days ago my health had gone so downhill that I was seriously scared. I was at the point where I was forcing those 12-16 beers down- to numb the physical…
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One Day at a Time
Read more: One Day at a TimeOne day at a time. Whoever figured that out needs a street named after them, because it’s a critical concept for me as I go along with this new alcohol-free life. Moving in and out of my mind are thoughts of forever, as in, can I do sober forever? Never drink again? Is this me…
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You Can’t Skip the Beginning but That’s Ok
Read more: You Can’t Skip the Beginning but That’s OkOne of the most touching places in Laura McKowen’s new book, “We Are the Luckiest,” are the words she used at a time of early, very wobbly sobriety where she spoke of wanting to protect the tiny pink new life growing inside her. She went on to say that she couldn’t really FEEL or ENVISION…
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Imagining a New Life … Sober
Read more: Imagining a New Life … SoberSometimes I have a hard time imagining a new sober life for myself, which is laughable and sad. I’m a fiction writer. I can write a thousand different lives for myself. I ride bareback across eastern Montana. I’m an archaeologist on Monday, a foreign correspondent on Tuesday. How can I imagine a life in which,…
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Balancing Moderate Drinking Goals vs Going Alcohol-Free
Read more: Balancing Moderate Drinking Goals vs Going Alcohol-FreeI have a friend with the nickname of Byrdie who wrote this about moderate drinking. Byrdie is an alcoholic with 9 years of sobriety. Three years ago, I posed the question about moderate drinking in an online forum. I’d been alcohol-free for a while and I wondered if I was ready to just drink on…
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Retrieving Me – My Sober Journey
Read more: Retrieving Me – My Sober JourneyI had been focused on the physical benefits of sobriety, immersed in all sorts of quit lit and online support groups and pouring my heart out in a private online journal. I felt sorta in control of the journey. But now I felt like I was wrestling a giant bear that nobody else could see…
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