The Truth about Alcohol
I’m a big believer in using every resource available until you reach the tipping point to freedom; to saturate yourself in the material until you’ve re-washed your brain; to get as much community as you Read More …
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A practice to help ensure freedom
Delinquent blogger that I am, as I’ve yet to complete my 2nd “anniversary” blog, I think it’s important, especially as the holidays near, to get straight about one factor that greatly increases your likelihood of Read More …
Sentimentality – the codependent’s best friend
I saw something the other day that got me to thinking. After a year and a half of freedom and clarity, all of these ideas sprang from this Facebook post commented on by a bunch Read More …
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 …
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 Read More …
#6 Heidi’s Helpful Hints
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 …
#4 Not Counting
HSM (Hello Sunday Morning) is doing the counting for me, but I am staying away from counting. It’s not one day at a time, it’s NOW and no thank you. I strongly feel that counting Read More …
#3 Liquid Language – The Semantics of Sobriety
This is the post this whole blog is named for – a must read for anyone who wants to change their thinking around ethanol. One crazy thing is: The words I refuse to ever use, Read More …
#2 How’d you do that?
I know that when I was drinking, which was pretty steadily for around 40 years, I thought of stopping as a daunting, complicated, nearly impossible challenge. In recent years, I’d just resigned myself to drinking until Read More …
#1 Last Hangover!
I am adamant about not counting days. This was my first journal entry after stopping drinking. I figure if sharing helps just one person, then I will share. I have experienced my last hangover! I Read More …