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Life is a Battlefield
Read more: Life is a BattlefieldSorry….still spewing forth post after post…. it seems to help…. seems to be necessary I have always been a fighter. When I was young I had to learn to fight for everything. My balance, my opportunities …. everything internal and external. And I have won many of my battles. But than things got too easy…
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It Hurts to Grow
Read more: It Hurts to GrowThe most important gift that we can give our children is to grow in front of their eyes. If they see us fall, get up again and move forward with more wisdom… And fall, get up again….move forward… If we let them see us cry… Then they will know that even though it hurts to…
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Springtime=New Me
Read more: Springtime=New MeGood 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.
Read more: 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
Read more: Recovering our Individuality through CommunityWhen 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!
Read more: 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!
Read more: 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
Read more: Savouring Time with familyAmy’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
Read more: Top Ten Answers for Folks who want to know why You're not DrinkingTop 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
Read more: The Best Gift You can Give YourselfThere has been a lot of conflicting information about the health benefits of alcohol and especially wine in the past few years. Depending on what you’ve read moderate drinking could be the best thing for you… or not. Maybe red wine is full of powerful anti oxidants that prevents cancer or maybe the ethanol in…
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- Are You Sober Curious ?
- How to Stop Drinking
- A Family History of Addiction
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- 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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