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Sober Girl’s Guide to the Festive Season and Christmas Freedom
Christmas loneliness is something that I’ve become accustomed to as a single parent. It can be especially hard to deal with loneliness if you are newly sober during this festive season. Drinking, loneliness, and the festive season went hand in hand for me. The holidays gave me a free pass to drink. Festive drinks. Different […]
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Grateful for the Simple Gift of Sobriety in my Second Alcohol-Free Holiday Season
It’s that time of year again, when almost everything I see and hear triggers old memories of past Christmases. For at least 20 years I drank my way through the holidays, in part to blank out the sadness and grief those memories often conjured as my family grew and left home, my social circle shrank, […]
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Evolving From my First Sober Christmas – Anger, Nature & Miracles
I’ll never forget my first sober Christmas. It’s a tough gig being sober in the Christmas season! I think a lot of us are feeling triggered by all the booze around at this time of year : social media, commercials, posters, parties, stacks and stacks of booze at the end of supermarket aisles. And then […]
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From Resentment to Joy – Reaching Out as I Begin my 3rd Alcohol-Free Holiday Season
It’s the day after Thanksgiving and I don’t have a hangover. I’m sitting here eating pumpkin bread, sipping coffee and thinking of Thanksgivings past. I quit drinking February of 2018, making this my third alcohol-free holiday season. Every year on Thanksgiving I’d start drinking in the early afternoon, my elegant wine glass close at hand […]
