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Chronic illness and an alcohol free holiday

There have been times when I have drunk purely to cope with pain and exhaustion. In the past, I definitely would have drank through this. I would have drank to dull the pain and drunk to wake myself up from the exhaustion. Continue reading Chronic illness and an alcohol free holiday

BApril 2, 2022April 2, 20222 Comments
addiction, alcohol, BLOG, recovery, sobriety

My thoughts before my relapse

My thinking patterns had started to change, I was no longer celebrating the fact that I was sober. I was moaning about it and I had lost any enthusiasm for being sober, and instead, I was resentful. Continue reading My thoughts before my relapse

BDecember 10, 2021March 9, 2022Leave 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

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“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
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