Heartbreaking
Booze can be heartbreaking – literally! When concerned about my extreme high blood pressure at doctor’s visits, no doctor ever once mentioned ethanol as a possible cause. All they ever wanted to do was give Read More …
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An Interesting Phenomenon
I’ve been out of the woods, so to speak, for quite a few months now, and it just gets better and better! This is the year when all of my classmates and I from the Read More …
Counter-productive
Noticing how people in the two ethanol cessation communities I visit tend to keep count of the days/weeks/months that they’ve been ethanol-free makes me hyper aware of the potential peril of that practice. Counting perpetuates a sort of drinking dilemma. Read More …
You stopped – your spouse didn’t
My friend Annie Grace, author of This Naked Mind, emailed me with this question, which I answered since I have direct experience. Here’s the question: Here’s Annie’s (my) answer: My actual answer: That was one of Read More …
#15 Life is Difficult
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 …
#14 It’s all in the body – “down there”
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 …
#13 Mining & Tapping
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 …
#12 Playing with the Little Monster
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 …
#9 Feeling Fully
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 …
#7 Living it Up
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 …