As a teenager I rebelled by drinking thinking that as I was underage this was cool and edgy and that I was behaving like someone so much more sophisticated than my years. It bolstered my fragile adolescent confidence and made me feel bigger and better than the *real* me. But I realise now that none […]
I caught this today and thought I would share it here: This Morning is a UK daytime show that runs on ITV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Morning_%28TV_series%29). I couldn’t find the viewing figures for this show but it is definitely a housewives favourite in this country and has won awards for the last 3 years. Lucy Rocca from Soberistas […]
So I said I was going to be honest in my blogs from here on in so lets start with this biggie (no pun intended!) Drunken f*ck and hungover sex I knew these two intimately. My husband swore by the latter as a bona fide hangover cure. Me not so much – the brewery breath […]
We’ve had a post-it note stuck on our fridge door since last Summer. It reads ‘not drinking + smoking = £400 a month savings’. That was 18 months ago and the price of both have increased quite considerably since then. I’ve noticed that the bank account is looking more healthy and that there is more […]
Reflecting on Friday night and my work Xmas do I think I hadn’t actually given it much head space – I think I was in denial and thinking ‘oh it’ll be ok, I’m almost 11 weeks without a drink’. How wrong could I be? I should of realised it was going to be really hard, […]
At the end of last year I followed the excellent suggestion of Andrea Scher and found myself a gratitude buddy (http://www.superherolife.com/2012/12/find-a-gratitude-buddy/). We have been exchanging our gratitude lists by email pretty much every day ever since. It has been a lovely way to get to know better a great friend and I have really enjoyed […]
Growing up we didn’t ‘do’ emotions in our house so they were denied or ignored and I grew up emotionally mute. It was when I discovered music that I found a ‘voice’ for my emotions. If I couldn’t express them I could always find a singer, band or DJ who could. Like many others music […]
Today I weighed myself and was amazed to see that I have lost 1/2 stone or 7lbs in weight. This is since I stopped drinking and has been as a result of this and nothing else. I haven’t increased the amount of exercise I’m doing – in fact I’ve cut down my running now it’s […]
So since I stopped drinking I have been spending time reading voraciously about drinking, not drinking and all the other brilliant sober books and blogs that exist. All that drinking time now spent not drinking creates vast amounts of time to fill and only now do I appreciate how much of my time I wasted […]
4 years ago I watched the London Marathon and decided that I was unfit and needed to do something about it. I drank and smoked and jokingly described myself as ‘allergic to exercise’. So I bought the trainers and consulted websites and the journey from unfit couch potato to runner began. I was very unfit […]
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