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How I Escaped the Trap of Gray Area Drinking
By the time I became a daily drinker, my youngest child was in high school and my older ones were youngish adults. I was happily married and satisfied with my life. I wrote poetry and had quite a bit of it published, gave readings, put together a chapbook, traveled when I had the chance. I…
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Imagining a New Life … Sober
Sometimes I have a hard time imagining a new sober life for myself, which is laughable and sad. I’m a fiction writer. I can write a thousand different lives for myself. I ride bareback across eastern Montana. I’m an archaeologist on Monday, a foreign correspondent on Tuesday. How can I imagine a life in which,…
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Retrieving Me – My Sober Journey
I had been focused on the physical benefits of sobriety, immersed in all sorts of quit lit and online support groups and pouring my heart out in a private online journal. I felt sorta in control of the journey. But now I felt like I was wrestling a giant bear that nobody else could see…
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What Does it Feel Like to go Alcohol-Free ?
Maybe you are like me. Like I was. I could guzzle 1 to 2 bottles of wine a night. Wine was my friend. Alcohol made me happy and took away my anxieties. I drank alcohol to feel free. Yet deep down and for too many years I knew I was drinking too much. I knew…