Boozemusings

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

 

Category: Sober Stories

  • Peaceful Warrior

    Peaceful Warrior

    I refuse to be alcohol’s victim. I refuse to let myself feel like a victim in life’s struggles. Life is often unfair, unkind and scary. I will not let that make me a victim though. I chose to see it all as part of the adventure. I chose to see it all as part of the challenge.…

  • Musings from Five Years Alcohol-Free – Understanding WHY I Drank

    Musings from Five Years Alcohol-Free – Understanding WHY I Drank

    I can remember being in awe of people who had gone for a long time alcohol-free. I never thought I’d do it. In fact, to be truthful I didn’t think I COULD do it. I’d tried to reduce, moderate, change the drink in my glass, go a month without and start again. When I drank…

  • I am Curious

    I am Curious

    When I think about all the things that helped me get and stay sober, the no. 1 was Curiosity. You see, in 2015, at the age of 62, I have to admit I’d never done this before: never quit drinking, never considered I had a problem, never done a dry January (beyond my wildest imagination!).…

  • Walking From Darkness Into Light

    Walking From Darkness Into Light

    I had a very long and twisted relationship with alcohol. It gnawed away at the best of me. Sometimes it took really large obvious chunks but mostly it was like that boiling a frog anaolgy. A slow corrosion of me, the real me, the true authentic me that was put on this Earth to do…