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.

  • Springtime=New Me

    Springtime=New Me

    Good Saturday morning all!! We are having some beautiful spring weather this week! When the days get sunny in the spring and the temps start to climb to the 70 ish mark, I start thinking how nice it would be for hubbie and I go find a patio and have a drink or 2. Sure […]

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  • Day 65 – Being rather than Doing.

    Day 65 – Being rather than Doing.

    It’s a fascinating thing this Alcohol Free journey. Well two of my clients haven’t showed up today, so I am interpreting this as The Universe’s way of saying to me: “Pop your feet up love, and take some time to relax”. I’ve done some stretching, and some nice deep breathing, and now I think some […]

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  • Recovering our Individuality through Community

    Recovering our Individuality through Community

    When my daughter was seven years old and my son was two I was reading a lot of books on parenting and accidentally found myself immersed in one on the origins of addiction. I picked up a well thumbed paperback at a yard sale called Bradshaw On : The Family that I thought was simply […]

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  • I Can't be in Denial!

    I Can't be in Denial!

    What is the difference between a problem drinker, a heavy drinker, and an alcoholic? I think I have always known I was an alcoholic. I loved alcohol from the moment it first crossed my lips. Sure, it took years to advance to the place it eventually got, BUT, much of that was controlled by circumstances, […]

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  • Putting our minds together as one!

    Putting our minds together as one!

    If we sat in a circle and put an object in the center of the circle and we all described what we saw, everyone would see different points of views from each other. Some would even see opposites because they would be sitting on opposite sides of the circle. In other words, you don’t have […]

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  • Savouring Time with family

    Savouring Time with family

    Amy’s posts from Australia spoke to my experience with family relationships improving when not drinking. Like Beth, Amy is an avid runner, a professional with a high stress job and a wife and mother. Reading every week about her empowerment through sobriety kept me inspired. My 15 year old daughter and I just had a […]

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  • Top Ten Answers for Folks who want to know why You're not Drinking

    Top Ten Answers for Folks who want to know why You're not Drinking

    Top Ten Answers for Folks who want to know why You’re not Drinking 10. Because I don’t want to wake up inside a Batman costume made of duct tape. 9. I don’t want to annoy you with my encyclopedic knowledge of political and religious issues. 8. So I can remember where I parked my car. […]

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  • The Best Gift You can Give Yourself

    The Best Gift You can Give Yourself

    There has been a lot of conflicting information about the health benefits of alcohol and especially wine in the past few years. Depending on what youโ€™ve read moderate drinking could be the best thing for youโ€ฆ or not. Maybe red wine is full of powerful anti oxidants that prevents cancer or maybe the ethanol in […]

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  • Boozemusings Community Blog Day 1

    Boozemusings Community Blog Day 1

    One year ago today ( 2015) I signed up to spend twelve months Alcohol-Free by blogging on the community website Hello Sunday Morning. Hello Sunday Morning offered a choice of a three month or twelve-month AF challenge but I knew that it needed to be a lifetime commitment for me. When I was young I […]

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  • The "A" word

    The "A" word

    I hate the word alcoholic. Iโ€™d like to say โ€œ if drinking is causing you more pain than pleasure itโ€™s time to take a breakโ€. That would make things much more clear. But we learn from an early age that the there is nothing wrong with the pleasure of drinking causing pain. For many teenagers […]

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  • 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.
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