Category: getting sober

  • How to Stop Drinking – Make This the Week That Your Sobriety Takes Off

    How to Stop Drinking – Make This the Week That Your Sobriety Takes Off

    When I was in my late 40’s, I found myself desperate to stop drinking but not sure how to do it. I’d seemed to others to be a contented “party girl” for decades, but things were changing for me in middle age. My drinking had escalated to a depressing nightly ritual that I justified as […]

  • Tips and Tools for Your First Month Sober Part 2 – Day 12 thru 16

    Tips and Tools for Your First Month Sober Part 2 – Day 12 thru 16

    Getting sober and eventually staying sober, can feel almost mythically impossible. How do you stop drinking and stay sober when you love to drink but the drinking doesn’t love you anymore? What works ? How do you get through that first month sober when drinking has been a daily release for years? For many people […]

  • Leaving My Abusive Relationship With Alcohol

    Leaving My Abusive Relationship With Alcohol

    My relationship with alcohol did not follow the path that I expected when I took my first casual drink. I once thought that alcohol was my confidant, my comfort, my power. But alcohol turned out to be a narcissist, a bully, my kryptonite. My relationship with alcohol was like a love turned sour and I […]

  • A-Z Reflections on 300 Days Alcohol-Free

    A-Z Reflections on 300 Days Alcohol-Free

    I was talking to a good friend on Monday and she told me she finally gave up smoking in January! Cheers my friend. Fantastic. So so happy for you. I told her I haven’t had a drink since April! I’m 300 days Alcohol-Free! ‘Wow really’ says she. ‘Why? I mean you didn’t have a drinking […]

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