The longer I’m sober and the more people I speak to who drink or have stopped drinking I realise that so many of us drink to numb the voice. The inner critic. The self saboteur. Mouthy Malcolm who keeps banging on and making you overthink EVERYTHING.
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2 years free of not pouring poison into my trifle hole, convincing myself it was the giver of life when in fact it is the thief.
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Hello all…..I recorded a podcast episode for the lovely Emily Hawkins back in October.
If you fancy a listen here’s the link to the episode.
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So, when you decide to become sober SOME people will think it’s completely normal to call you boring! But I can assure you, there is nothing more boring than a drunk person….and this is why…..
Read More The dreaded B word.
Hoorah! December is here. Apart from the fact it means I’ll soon be eating my own weight in mince pies it also means that I have a few socials coming up. Which also means I need my answers why I no longer drink alcohol ready…..
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No more alcohol means no more heartburn. Which I of course blamed everything else for (even pollen). No more alcohol means no more night sweats. A bed wetter at 40? No hun. No more alcohol means no more bad breath like you’ve swallowed a teenagers sock. No more alcohol means no more cigarettes. I would …
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So, you know the massive heap of llama shit excuses and reasons you tell yourself to keep on drinking? Well a few of my biggest ones were that alcohol made me connect with my friends more. That it made me more myself and able to say what I really wanted to say. But oh babes…..it …
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Who’s your biggest sober champ? Well it should be YOU! We’ve all had help on this sober adventure but ultimately it comes down to YOU. YOU have made the massive life saving change, YOU have stopped necking the poison and it is YOU who has become a sober champion (right, I’ll stop shouting YOU now). …
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One of the things that kept me on the poison was the fear that things would change without alcohol. That things wouldn’t be as good, that I wouldn’t be as good, that life would be dull. I even worried that mates might not like me anymore. Well I was right. Things did change and this …
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At first this might feel like I’m off subject but I promise you I’m not. In July 2019 on the BBC there was a programme called Panorama. It was about how from 2020 LGBTQ+ Relationship Education will be included in Primary schools. It also showed that some parents are protesting against this and also getting …
Read More Time for change