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Can You Become Indifferent to Drinking?
I’ve been sober almost continuously for a year and a half. I’ve had a minor slip or two, but they’ve been inconsequential and strangely detached from my former drinking habits and patterns, as if I was not involved in them like I used to be, but separate from the experience. Distance, in general, allowed me…
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You are Worth so Much More than Alcohol can Give
On New Year’s Eve, 2023, I started drinking early. We had already thrown four Christmas parties, and I had been in an absolute binge since the day before Christmas Eve. The only thing making the days manageable was more booze. I hated it. I hated that I couldn’t stop drinking. Alcohol was in control. I…
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Imagine the Possibilities of Living Free
Hungover, and feeling like shite on the morning of 31 December 2023; I promised myself that I would not “feel like this” in 2024” The bottle(s) of wine, the lazy sofa, bad food, snacks, drunken pancake making; passing out; being an arsehole; snoring; waking up at 4am; dry mouth – urgh. Hangover the next day;…
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I Used to Give Booze a Lot of Credit that it Did not Deserve
When I stopped drinking for Dry Feb. in 2021, going sober for a month was not even my idea. My husband decided to commit to Dry Feb. first, and announced his intention in to me in December 2020. It took weeks of heavy drinking up to, and through the Christmas season and January, for me…