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So today a muggle asked me (yep, I now call people who still drink muggles. Thank you J.K. Rowling), “How do you relax if you don’t drink?”. So I answered “Well it was the drink that was stressing me out. So now I don’t drink I just am relaxed”. He just sort of stared at …

I’ve just been on holiday for a week and you know what, the start, without alcohol, was tough. It caught me a bit unexpected if I’m honest as I’ve already done one holiday without the anxiety juice and it was easy. However, that holiday was in a medieval town in France in winter. This was …

I have only just realised that I now remember every waking hour of my life. Don’t get me wrong, I still forget stuff like names (not my own) and birthday dates (definitely not my own) etc. But I no longer spend time time trying to piece together things that may or may not have happened …

Since being sober I see others struggles more. Anyone else feel like this? I don’t just mean peoples struggles with alcohol. I mean generally. I’ve always been a pretty sensitive person (Beaches is a favourite film of mine so, you know) and thought of myself as emotionally intelligent but recently I feel like bloody Whoopi …

Yesterday I got angry. Because not once, not twice but thrice was I was targeted by sponsored ads or posts that contained alcohol via instagram. Was it showing me the devastation it can cause to peoples lives? No of course not, it was all pastel pinks and roses with glasses of fizz and crap being …

Being sober is something I need to keep working on. When I was six months in  I thought I’d cracked it then went out for a night and actually had to leave (less Cinderella more thief who’s been caught nicking doughnuts). Since then I do regular things to keep on top of it. I’m gonna …

So, ” you do you” is a sentence/saying I have heard said a lot. But it was only the other day that I really understood it. It’s actually very simple but also really hard to do! We, or at least I am, always comparing myself or my journey to others. So here’s a little reminder….. …

So….I want to share a technique I learnt ages ago from a gratitude book, that I’ve adapted. It may sound a bit out there (so put the handbrake on your eye roll please) but it really isn’t. They suggest as each foot touches the floor in the morning you say “Thank you”. One foot “Thank” …

The lies would start as soon as I woke up after drinking. I would first start thinking about how much I had drunk, usually having set a limit for myself which I would have broken. So I’d lie in bed trying to work out exactly what the amount was. This is a strange part of …

So in my hand I had the cause and solution of my problem. I would drink too much alcohol. Then the next day feel anxious, unhappy, sad, and the rest, then the way to get over that would be to drink again. Repeat. What did I need to do? Stop drinking. So why couldn’t I? …