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How Do You Stay Sober When Your Friends Encourage You to Drink?
Read more: How Do You Stay Sober When Your Friends Encourage You to Drink?Have you ever noticed that stories of alcoholism in mainstream media often point the finger at the friends and family of the drinker and accuse them of enabling or co-dependence? It seems simple and obvious in these stories that the people surrounding the alcoholic willfully enabled the addict. There is often a lot of dramatic, judgmental finger-pointing…
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Musings from 200 Days Sober
Read more: Musings from 200 Days SoberIt strikes me that my first 100 days sober were a sort of phase 1. What can I say about those hundred days now, looking back? Were they ok? Brutal? Easy? Hard? Wonderful? Painful? Blurry? I suppose the answer is: ALL OF THE ABOVE. For the first sober month or so I did nothing but…
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Learning to Meditate – Transcendental Meditation, Awareness and Emotional Regulation
Read more: Learning to Meditate – Transcendental Meditation, Awareness and Emotional RegulationA lot of us try to meditate and feel we fail or don’t get it. We try to meditate and don’t feel the benefit and it’s frustrating and boring to bother having another go. That was and is still is me much of the time. I have a busy impatient brain that is hard to…
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What does it mean to be an Alcoholic?
Read more: What does it mean to be an Alcoholic?Have you ever wondered if you’re an alcoholic? But you know that you’re too high functioning to be that? Do you need to stop drinking or just maybe slow down? Do you drink alone?Do you crave a drink when you got home?Do you drink to control your emotional state?Do you get annoyed if you have…
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Becoming My Future Self – the Discovery in Recovery
Read more: Becoming My Future Self – the Discovery in Recovery“No matter how old you are, you can create an incredible life ahead of you by living from your future, imagination, possibility, and inspiration.” –Brooke Castillo Becoming My Future Self: Cracking the Transformation Code of Recovery One of the first things Holly Whitaker did in Hip Sobriety School was to take us on a guided…
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It’s OK Not to Drink – Alcohol Abuse Kills 3 Million a Year
Read more: It’s OK Not to Drink – Alcohol Abuse Kills 3 Million a YearWith 3 million alcohol-related deaths6 per minute taking their last breathIt’s ok not to drinkDon’t ya think? Fight Back Alcohol Abuse Kills Just because they say harsh wordsIt doesn’t mean it’s trueThey just haven’t seen lifeFrom your point of view They haven’t been standing on your side of the streetJust ‘cos you’re strugglingIt doesn’t mean…
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A Bouquet of Gratitude for my First Month Sober
Read more: A Bouquet of Gratitude for my First Month SoberExperience is knowledge and knowledge is power so I am sharing today with you, this bouquet of everything I’ve learned in my first months sober!
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A Fresh Approach to Fight Alcohol Addiction
Read more: A Fresh Approach to Fight Alcohol AddictionWhether you call it alcohol abuse, alcoholism or alcohol-use-disorder, alcohol addiction is deadly. Sometimes it takes people quickly for reasons obviously related to the drinking. Sometimes it takes people suddenly in accidents or violent outbursts. Sometimes alcohol abuse compounds depression and inspires suicide and sometimes it slowly erodes the quality of a person’s life dissolving…
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Alternate Routes – Switching Lanes from Addiction to Recovery
Read more: Alternate Routes – Switching Lanes from Addiction to RecoveryI read Marc Lewis’ book The Biology of Desire when I was 8 months sober. It was the last of many books that I read that year on the topic of addiction and recovery. One of the interesting things about Marc’s book was that unlike the other books I had been reading it did not…
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How do You go Sober?
Read more: How do You go Sober?When did my off-switch fail-safe break?What’s wrong with this? It would never usually miss Until it did I was fine for a time I knew when to stopNow all of a sudden I want to drink….. Alot ! It’s like stress and anxiety have overridden common sense And for all the hurt I want wine recompense What’s going on?What’s…
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- Are You Sober Curious ?
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- A Family History of Addiction
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- Sober Milestones
- An Alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and Traditional Recovery
- Debunking the Glamour of Mommy’s Wine Time
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