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The Fuckit Bucket
If you’ve ever given up drinking you will have read a myriad of articles proclaiming how fabulous life is sober: words of hope, words of praise, page upon page of unimaginable achievement. Since I stopped drinking 4.5 years ago I’ve become increasingly aware that these articles are pretty one-sided tending to focus on the whoop-whoop…
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Alcohol – The Seductive Beast that Kills
I started blogging my way sober a bit over seven years ago. Sometimes I rant against the alcohol industry for marketing wine, gin, and vodka as health and beauty products. Sometimes my posts are about alternative paths to recovery, and sometimes I write about the stigma of addiction that prevents so many of us from…
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Booze Equations or Why I Subtracted Wine from my Time
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How to get From Here to There
I’ve been pondering the question of how to get from here to there when you stop drinking. “Here” of course being addicted to alcohol, and “There” being free from alcohol. This is a very different thing from ‘not drinking’ and it’s a different focus than just staying sober. To stay sober, to focus on Not…