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Month: March 2016

#15 Life is Difficult

Posted onMarch 23, 2016November 16, 20162 Comments

Life is difficult.  The timing of this was perfect for me coming out of a few days of darkness, and happy to report that despite the dark mood, the monster was nowhere to be found. Read More …

Categorieshelpful info, journal, mind & body, resources, strategyTagschallenges, Eckhart Tolle, mind/body, stepping stones

wolf moon

#14 It’s all in the body – “down there”

Posted onMarch 23, 2016December 28, 20161 Comment

Here’s a little diary of the mining & Tapping I did in the first few days.  I’m laying myself bare here. Now knowing that much of my drinking was to NOT FEEL, this has been Read More …

Categorieshelpful info, journal, mind & body, strategyTagsabuse, EFT, forgiveness, mind/body, mining, natural rest for addiction, Scott Kiloby, tapping

mining

#13 Mining & Tapping

Posted onMarch 23, 2016March 25, 2016Leave a comment

When I was starting on this journey to stop drinking it was not an emergency, no rock bottom here, it was just a building of knowing I wanted to change.  I wanted to feel good. I Read More …

Categoriesaudio, helpful info, mind & body, strategyTagsEFT, feelings, mining, Scott Kiloby, tapping

hello monster

#12 Playing with the Little Monster

Posted onMarch 23, 2016March 25, 2016Leave a comment

Normally I am a very kind, thoughtful, helpful, and considerate person. Most of my life, I actually put the feelings of others before my own, which didn’t always pan out well. It took me many Read More …

Categorieshelpful info, journal, strategy

paris wife

#11 Saturated Literature – a brief review

Posted onMarch 23, 2016March 24, 2016Leave a comment

THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain – historical fiction, a very well-researched and written piece spoken in first person by/about Hemingway’s first wife. In my fresh state as a non-ethanol-drinking person raised in the same Read More …

Categoriesbooks, journalTagsalcohol, book review, books, Ernest Hemingway, literature, paris wife

peacescape

#10 The Joy that Passes All Understanding

Posted onMarch 23, 2016March 25, 2016Leave a comment

A huge benefit of not using ethanol that keeps popping up for me, is that “the peace that passes all understanding” is so much more evident in my everyday life.  In this Eckhart Tolle clip, he says sometimes Read More …

Categoriesfeatured content, journal, mind & bodyTagsEckhart Tolle, feeling, freedom, joy, mindfulness, recovery

#9 Feeling Fully

Posted onMarch 23, 2016March 25, 20161 Comment

After I’d become a mother, my mother revealed to me that she had always worried that I might be too sensitive to have kids; that I was such an empath, so sensitive, that I might Read More …

Categoriesfeatured content, helpful info, journal, mind & body

#8 Switchflippers, anyone?

Posted onMarch 22, 2016July 9, 20164 Comments

Just because we’ve stopped drinking ethanol, doesn’t mean we have to ignore cocktail time.  I’m living it up! What better way to make fun diversion at cocktail time than to make switchflipper (mocktail) concoctions? It’s Read More …

Categoriesfeatured content, recipes, switchflippers

#7 Living it Up

Posted onMarch 22, 2016March 23, 20164 Comments

One of the biggest trends I notice in the two ethanol cessation communities I visit is that there’s a lingering feeling of loss, of coping with the stress, of yearning, even grief, of stopping using Read More …

Categoriesfeatured content, helpful info, journalTagsalcohol-free, cessation, feelings, holidays, inclusion, mind/body

#6 Heidi’s Helpful Hints

Posted onMarch 22, 2016December 17, 20164 Comments

I wrote this as the holidays were approaching.   There are these little life events that were repeated over and over, over the years, where familiar images and sensations were branded into our brains and Read More …

Categoriesfeatured content, helpful info, mind & body, recipes, strategy, switchflippersTagsalcohol, drinking, ethanol, habits, meditation, mindfulness, recovery, sobriety

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