Happy Hour is our celebrated transition from work to play. Daily drinking has become so normalized that alcohol was deemed essential during the Covid lockdown, and we replaced the workday’s end visit to the bar, with Virtual Happy Hour online. We drink alcohol to connect and to disconnect, to ease our transition from work to
Not picking up a drink when I was triggered was sooo so hard and seemingly impossible a year ago. I am eternally grateful to those who helped me pick myself up after slips and slides again and again. Thank you. The best way that I know to say Thank You to the community that has
I spent a long time not wanting to drink and found myself drinking anyway. Sometimes it was a learned response to my body’s signals for something else like hunger or thirst. Sometimes I drank to numb emotional pain. If you spell the acronym HALT – hungry, angry, lonely, tired- those are the triggers that set off
NumbnessCould’t care lessDon’t want to dressSpeak or BeIn my skin Don’t want to go withinDon’t want to go outNot answering callsToo busy screaming outfor helpOn my own.Where nobody will hear me;I scream at myselfI was a kid once.. It seems like nothings is real.Blank face tears behind eyes can’t take it all in.Raw.As grated skin,Nothing works.I don’t
