Skip to content

Singing sobriety with B

Free from alcohol, my thoughts on sobriety, life and living!

  • About me
  • Really useful links
  • Sober literature
  • Why do I blog?
  • Contact me…

Category: PMS

addiction, alcohol, anxiety, BLOG, Christmas, Emotions, Hormones, PMS

Day 167 – Festive fury

Christmas is a tough time for us and it’s getting right on my pip! Continue reading Day 167 – Festive fury

BDecember 5, 2021December 11, 20211 Comment
addiction, alcohol, anxiety, BLOG, Hormones, PMS, recovery, sobriety, Women's issues

Anxiety – The invisible assassin

You know in films when someone has the good conscience and the bad conscience on their shoulders, I think of anxiety like that, like a horrible little creature living on my shoulder trying to ruin everything for me Continue reading Anxiety – The invisible assassin

BNovember 14, 2021December 11, 2021Leave a comment
BLOG, Hormones, PMS

Day 84-Alcohol and hormones

Feelings brought on by PMS were making me feel like I had no choice but to drink. It was a very hard merry go round to get off. Continue reading Day 84-Alcohol and hormones

BSeptember 13, 2021December 11, 2021Leave a comment

“For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us into the person we wish to be, or the person we think we are. In some ways the dynamic is simple: alcohol makes everything better, until it makes everything worse.”

Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

“I love a martini—but two at the most. Three I’m under the table, four, I’m under the host.”

― Ann Dowsett Johnston, Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

Drinking steals happiness from tomorrow

Unknown

“THEY SAY: ‘CAN’T YOU JUST HAVE ONE?’ Oh, man, I never thought of that! You’re a genius! Just one, you say? Rather than five or six? Thanks, Captain Obvious.”

― Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

“Life is hard—not because we’re doing it wrong, just because it’s hard.”

― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.”

― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“Disappoint other people with your no; don’t disappoint yourself with a yes you’ll later resent.”

― Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman

“The typical question is, Is this bad enough for me to have to change?

The question we should be asking is, Is this good enough for me to stay the same?

And the real question underneath it all is, Am I free?”

 Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised.

Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

When you quit drinking you stop waiting

Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

“Try going to a mirror when you feel triggered to get a sense for what masks you put on without knowing it.”

Pixie Lighthorse, Goldmining the Shadows

“Be kind to drunk people, for every one of them is fighting an enormous battle.”

Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Follow Following
    • Singing sobriety with B
    • Join 476 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Singing sobriety with B
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar