Boozemusings

If You’re Drinking Too Much Too Often Rethink the Drink

 

Category: How I Stopped Drinking

  • You Have to Do Your Part : One Year Sober

    You Have to Do Your Part : One Year Sober

    One year ago I found myself literally on my knees I was hungover once again. My self-loathing in full swing I was desperate for it to end. I was so despondent that I begged my higher powers for the strength to become sober and to stop the self-loathing. I should clarify that communicating with my…

  • Sitting with the Contradictions

    Sitting with the Contradictions

    As I write this now I feel just so and happy and proud for having resisted the cravings of a Saturday night because what’s on the other side of that makes it all worth it. And what was once a garden of earthly delights is now a minefield. I’ve made a commitment to myself to…

  • Top Ten Answers for when that Little Voice tells us to have a Drink because we’re Down

    Top Ten Answers for when that Little Voice tells us to have a Drink because we’re Down

    10. No Because drinking can bring back memories of bad experiences, especially if they involved alcohol. 9. No because drinking can keep our anti-depressant or anti-anxiety meds from working. 8. No because drinking increases our chances of having an accident or doing something stupid – things which will only make us more down. 7. No…

  • Redefining ‘Me Time’

    Redefining ‘Me Time’

    I saw an e-card on Facebook about eight years ago that made me laugh out loud. “Don’t forget to pick up a bottle of wine for your mom on mother’s day. You’re one of the reasons she drinks” That same e-card seems to come up every year with different illustrations and every year I have…