You are Brave and Amazing
I just got a random lovely email from a dude in Utah – he works at Thistle Creek Ranch a private addiction rehabilitation centre. He wanted to thank me for the ‘quality content’ I provide on my Mrs D...
View ArticleStill a work in progress (a post about sugar) …
I have to be honest, sometimes I feel like a fraud because I’m not in the slightest bit ‘cured’ when it comes to dealing with emotional shit. I figured out early in sobriety that much of my drinking...
View ArticleSober Hindsight
Sober Hindsight is one of my favorite things about living alcohol-free. I talked about this in my Bubble Hour podcast… and also just mentioned it when replying to a member in our ‘Members Feed’ this...
View ArticleYou asked …
Member @preparedtochange (who has one of my favorite avatars on this site!) asked me this question in the Members Feed yesterday: “How do you move on from that need to escape your feelings by soaking...
View ArticlePutting down the drink is just the beginning..
I’m not sure that you can just stop drinking alcohol and make no other changes or do no other ‘work’ on yourself and expect to become happily sober. No matter what your reasons for drinking were, or...
View ArticleRemember (Guest Post)
This guest post comes from Mark Goodson, author of the blog ‘The Miracle of the Mundane” (great title, great blog). He has been sober since October 13, 2007. This is a beautiful piece of truthful...
View ArticleGrief
I think we need to accept that there is a certain amount of grief that goes with getting sober. Grief for the good bits of our past boozy life. Yes the good bits. We have to acknowledge that and grieve...
View ArticleWe didn’t know we were missing…
Lovely long term community member @hetiheti wrote in the Members Feed recently as she approached her 700th sober day; “this sober lark is just the best thing ever”. These sorts of statements are always...
View ArticleDivine Intervention (Guest Post)
This guest post comes from Katrina Tanirau, a journalist living in Matamata. She reached out to me via Facebook offering to write something for the site and I said ‘go for it’! Little did I know she...
View ArticleFeeling all the feels…
Make no bones about it. This is what getting sober is all about. When you quit drinking and commit to spending 100% of your time with a wide open (sober) brain, you are committing to feeling all the...
View ArticleIlluminating and rewarding
Boy does life change when we quit drinking and are no longer subject to the impacts of artificually altering our moods with alcohol. It’s something quite else when you stop drinking for a long length...
View ArticleStill a work in progress (a post about sugar) …
I have to be honest, sometimes I feel like a fraud because I’m not in the slightest bit ‘cured’ when it comes to dealing with emotional shit. I figured out early in sobriety that much of my drinking...
View ArticleSober Hindsight
Sober Hindsight is one of my favorite things about living alcohol-free. I talked about this in my Bubble Hour podcast… and also just mentioned it when replying to a member in our ‘Members Feed’ this...
View ArticleYou asked …
Member @preparedtochange (who has one of my favorite avatars on this site!) asked me this question in the Members Feed yesterday: “How do you move on from that need to escape your feelings by soaking...
View ArticlePutting down the drink is just the beginning..
I’m not sure that you can just stop drinking alcohol and make no other changes or do no other ‘work’ on yourself and expect to become happily sober. No matter what your reasons for drinking were, or...
View ArticleRemember (Guest Post)
This guest post comes from Mark Goodson, author of the blog ‘The Miracle of the Mundane” (great title, great blog). He has been sober since October 13, 2007. This is a beautiful piece of truthful...
View ArticleGrief
I think we need to accept that there is a certain amount of grief that goes with getting sober. Grief for the good bits of our past boozy life. Yes the good bits. We have to acknowledge that and grieve...
View ArticleWe didn’t know we were missing…
Lovely long term community member @hetiheti wrote in the Members Feed recently as she approached her 700th sober day; “this sober lark is just the best thing ever”. These sorts of statements are always...
View ArticleDivine Intervention (Guest Post)
This guest post comes from Katrina Tanirau, a journalist living in Matamata. She reached out to me via Facebook offering to write something for the site and I said ‘go for it’! Little did I know she...
View ArticleFeeling all the feels…
Make no bones about it. This is what getting sober is all about. When you quit drinking and commit to spending 100% of your time with a wide open (sober) brain, you are committing to feeling all the...
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