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Boozemusings Blog
The Boozemusings Community Blog is written by a diverse group. We are current and former members of the BOOM Rethink the Drink community where we also blog privately, in an anonymous, supportive forum. Find us app HERE for connection and support when you need it.
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Join Us For A Sober October
Read more: Join Us For A Sober OctoberThe holiday season can be overwhelming if you’re trying to stop drinking or stay sober. Why not get a leg up on some alcohol-free time by joining us for our Sober October celebration? If you’ve ever planned to have “just one drink” and then don’t remember how you got home. If you ever started drinking […]
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The Cost of Mommy’s Wine Time and How I Broke Free
Read more: The Cost of Mommy’s Wine Time and How I Broke FreeWhen my son was a baby, my drinking would have been considered part of what is now (the very normal and encouraged) “Mommy’s wine time” culture. I’d put him down for bed in the early evening – after a very long day of all things baby! – I’d flip on the baby monitor, head to […]
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A Sober September Farewell to the Wine Witch
Read more: A Sober September Farewell to the Wine WitchDear Wine Witch, Thank you. Thank you for always being there for me. You were always by my side for the good and bad, ups and downs through my adult life’s events. You never let me down, you were always there, so smooth, gentle, fresh – a pure delight. Well, unless I had too much […]
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Alcohol and Exercise-Battling Diminishing Returns
Read more: Alcohol and Exercise-Battling Diminishing ReturnsDoes exercise cancel out the deadly effect of too much alcohol? I’ve read that it does in articles online and I certainly tried to cancel out the alcohol toxicity with daily exercise when I was drinking. My routine became a binge and purge of drinking at night and running in the morning. But since I’ve […]
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Your Grief Honors Love
Read more: Your Grief Honors LoveToday is September 11th. Today is a day of unease. We grieve those lost in the United States twenty-one years ago, but this year many people also grieve the recent loss of a monarch who served her country for over seventy years. We grieve as individuals for people lost, and we grieve as nations for […]
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Sobriety is my Path from Fear to Authenticity
Read more: Sobriety is my Path from Fear to AuthenticityToday it’s over 11 months since I had a drop of alcohol. I now associate drinking with fear. Fear of alcohol. It’s not fear about what’s going into me when I drink, it’s fear about what won’t come out. When I drink my truth does not come out. It stays inside and causes inconsistencies in […]
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An Invitation and Inspiration to Ditch the Drink Today
Read more: An Invitation and Inspiration to Ditch the Drink TodayI’d like to offer you a light-hearted invitation to a celebration – a celebration of taking back your freedom that we call Sober September. Actually, this month, the celebration is A Sober September but it’s not a celebration that is only in September. This celebration is all about how you live today, whether today is […]
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Russ and Trev’s Guide to a Sober September
Read more: Russ and Trev’s Guide to a Sober SeptemberHave you decided to give Sober September a try? Russ and Trev are our Boom Rethink the Drink community experts on taking a break from the booze, and they’d like to invite you to join us for our Sober-September challenge. Here are Russ and Trev’s thoughts on what 30 days alcohol-free can do for you! […]
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The 3 Phases of Addiction – MAGIC, MEDICINE and MISERY
Read more: The 3 Phases of Addiction – MAGIC, MEDICINE and MISERYI was listening to the Heart of the Matter, a podcast on addiction and recovery hosted by Elizabeth Vargas, and she said someone in recovery described alcohol to her as first magic, then medicine, then misery. Ouch. That hits close to home. Those were the 3 phases of my addiction. I think I stopped drinking […]
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An Open Letter to my Drinking Colleagues, With Love
Read more: An Open Letter to my Drinking Colleagues, With LoveToday I’m going to take a brief moment to write an open and anonymous letter to all of my colleagues who keep telling me some version of ‘you know it would be much more fun/better for your career/ if you would just meet up at the bar sometime.’ Because this line of conversation is just […]
Featured Pages
- Tool Kit
- How is Your Relationship With Alcohol?
- Are You Sober Curious ?
- How to Stop Drinking
- A Family History of Addiction
- Alcohol the Seductive Beast that Kills
- Alcohol, Brain Chemistry, Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
- Emotional Sobriety
- Staying Sober
- Sober Milestones
- An Alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and Traditional Recovery
- Debunking the Glamour of Mommy’s Wine Time
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Authors
Alice Vie
Annette Spiritual
Artemis Quinn
Beatrix (@Freesparkles)
Beth
Clare
Colorand
Eloise Blue
Floss (poetry and verse)
Juno
LollieKay (music)
Lore
Maggy M
MrsP
MyrDan
Paul Humphries / YOSSA
Robert
ROK
Ryan
Sober Don
Ted’s top Ten
Winged Victory
Zoo
- Boozemusings is a lifestyle blog and the BOOM Community is a peer support group. We are NOT trained addiction counselors but simply a community of people who have overcome or are overcoming alcohol issues. We do not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, nor does anything on this website create a physician/patient relationship. If you require medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, please consult your physician.
