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Are You Looking for Support to Stay Sober this Holiday Season?
December is upon us again and once again ’tis the season of alcohol and holidays. We romanticize, glamorize, and can be hypnotized by alcohol marketing, especially at this time of year. It’s difficult to stay alcohol-free in a world that treats non-drinkers as abnormal. Alcohol is celebrated in marketing on television, the internet, billboards, and […]
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Why Wait for Dry January? Get a Jump Start Loving the Life You’re Living Today
December is upon us again and once again ’tis the season of alcohol and holidays. If you are trying to stop drinking because you find that more often than not you drink too much, or if you stopped drinking recently and are trying to stay sober, December can be a blur of alcohol-related stress. The […]
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Starting the Sober Holiday Season with Great Intentions and a Solid Plan
There is a classic film called “A Christmas Carol” from 1951 that was adapted from the Charles Dickens book. At some point in your life, you have likely read the book or seen one of the many film or stage adaptations. I’ve been thinking about my sobriety in the context of that movie as I […]
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Why I Chose Sobriety – The Magic of my First Sober Christmas
I tiptoed out of my bedroom and closed the door as quietly as I could behind me. I stepped into the living room to see it filled with all of the wrapped presents my mom, just a few minutes earlier, had left for me. The stillness of the house calmed my nerves and I listened closely […]
