Boozemusings

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

 

Category: Sober Stories

  • What Does it Feel Like to go Alcohol-Free ?

    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…

  • Self Care Does Not Come in a Bottle – A Newly Sober Mum Reflects on Loving Living Alcohol Free

    Self Care Does Not Come in a Bottle – A Newly Sober Mum Reflects on Loving Living Alcohol Free

    100 straight alcohol-free days! My first 100 days of change completed and I am a sober mum! I feel I have found my momentum and I’m rolling with it. Words can’t actually describe how I feel but I cannot forget how dark my life felt before – darkness deep in my soul because of alcohol.…

  • Un-Drowning – Rising Up From a Legacy of Alcohol Addiction

    Un-Drowning – Rising Up From a Legacy of Alcohol Addiction

    My mom was a great lady.  Fiercely independent, she could stretch my dad’s paycheck to feed their 7 children, as well as embrace foster children when they needed shelter.  She was quick and witty and funny. Mom sewed clothes for us, and we felt so blessed to have her make us special clothes. She made…

  • Dear Alcohol – Good Bye

    Dear Alcohol – Good Bye

    Dear alcohol. I was introduced to you through teenage romanticism; my friend died and I jumped straight into your chasm. You were there when family was not; you comforted me, as I melted into an afterthought. You gave me the means when I needed to escape; while I was just a child, one that someone…