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Empowered to Be Alcohol-Free and Rebranding Sobriety
Read more: Empowered to Be Alcohol-Free and Rebranding SobrietyDrinking alcohol has been sold to most of us as the elixir of life since we were young children. I remember as a child listening to the grownups downstairs having a GREAT NOISY TIME while I went reluctantly up to bed. I romanticized their drinking. To my mind as a child, the alcohol made the party. The drinking was…
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Celebrating 100 Days Sober by Reaching Back With Tips on Tackling Triggers and Slips
Read more: Celebrating 100 Days Sober by Reaching Back With Tips on Tackling Triggers and SlipsIt’s taken almost two years to get to this joyful moment but today I am 100 days sober with no slips! 🌟 Alcohol Free ME! YES! Even after almost two years of working at this and knowing that I cannot drink I’ve been tempted several times. It’s being around people who talk a lot about…
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Add Life to Your Years – Come out of the Grey and into the Light – Chose Sober
Read more: Add Life to Your Years – Come out of the Grey and into the Light – Chose SoberA problem is a problem is a problem it’s trueA problem exists if it’s a problem to youIt doesn’t have to be a problem as big as the moonFor stopping drinking to be a good idea and to start soonJust begin when you notice the problem withinListen to your gut feeling and just startOr one…
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The Only Way Out is Through – Perspective from 7 Months Sober
Read more: The Only Way Out is Through – Perspective from 7 Months SoberI’m 7 months sober today and I was thinking about any wisdom I could pass on to those trying to stop drinking or those who are alcohol-free already but in early days. To be honest, what comes to mind, is really just about doing the work. No one wants to go through a tunnel of…
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To the Brave Young Woman Who Decided to be Free of Alcohol and its Tirade of Lies
Read more: To the Brave Young Woman Who Decided to be Free of Alcohol and its Tirade of LiesTo the little girl who was scaredTo the little girl who was violatedWhose safe space was not her bedWhose innocence was annihilated. To the little girl who whisperedTo the little girl with no voiceWhose trust was shattered youngWho felt she had no choice. To the teenager who was angryTo the teenager who was brokenWhose anger…
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You Don’t Have to Hit Rock Bottom
Read more: You Don’t Have to Hit Rock BottomI don’t have to hit rock bottomTo have an alcohol problemIt can still be better for meTo choose alcohol free We don’t have to have a crisis on the immediate horizonIt’s enough that our stress levels and blood pressure could be rising Alcohol won’t take away any pain at allBad things WILL happen to make…
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A Love Letter to My Liver From a Newly Sober Me
Read more: A Love Letter to My Liver From a Newly Sober MeDear Liver, I am so sorry I have tortured you. You have always been there for me. You’ve cleaned my blood, detoxified my body and regulated my hormones for many years. What thanks did you get? None. Occasionally I poured healthy food into you but then followed it by adding ethanol in great quantities like…
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My Long Journey to Sobriety and the Three D’s I Learned in Alcohol Rehab
Read more: My Long Journey to Sobriety and the Three D’s I Learned in Alcohol RehabI used to get irritated by the word journey in relation to stopping drinking: it sounded trite to me as I felt it was overused. The sober journey. But after years of going through the roller coaster of becoming sober, relapsing, going to alcohol rehab, becoming sober, relapsing, wash rinse repeat until finally and eventually…
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I Wish it Was Easier to Say “I Can’t Drink”
Read more: I Wish it Was Easier to Say “I Can’t Drink”Am I an Alcoholic? The words alcoholic and teetotaler both make me cringe. My favorite term for myself is Alcohol Free. AF! It’s not that I don’t accept that I cannot drink – I get that- it’s just that the word alcoholic and the baggage it carries does not belong to me. I’m the one…
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Fake it Till You Make It – Open Your Mind to the Possibilities in Sobriety
Read more: Fake it Till You Make It – Open Your Mind to the Possibilities in SobrietyIn my first months sober people would often tell me to fake it till you make it. When you’re in early sobriety and finding it hard to be without drinking, or when you’re facing that blah sort of, what now, feeling that comes and goes through the first year alcohol free, pretend that you are…
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