I almost just gave up on this entire thing yesterday. But I didn’t. Today is day 20 and I’ve almost made it through the holiday. At home it was relatively easy to not open the wine. But here, with friends that are drinking, it’s harder. Lunch at a cute little restaurant... I was the only …
I feel very lucky to have supportive friends who understand why I’m taking this break, and not only respect the decision - but support me through it. In the past, when other people have taken a break from drinking, I’ve been known to be the one saying “c’mon...it’s Friday!”...or something along those lines. More often …
I use an app, called The Pattern, and sometimes it’s like it’s in my head - for real! It’s based on your birth date, and is more in-depth than ‘newspaper column astrology’....and sometimes it’s messages about my personality are eerily accurate. Anyway...it’s started asking questions; and the question I woke up to this morning was …
I leave in 2 and a half hours to go to the airport for the first time since the beginning of February. Usually, I’m on a plane twice a week to attend meetings and conferences - but of course with the pandemic and lockdowns all of my work travel has been suspended. I’ve enjoyed the …
This morning I opened my Sober Tracker and the motivational quote read: “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” Very true. I once read that Tony Robbins said: “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of …
I’ve been telling a few more people that I’ve decided to take a break from alcohol. The reactions have ranged from “Summer is the worst time to do that”...to “but you don’t drink much!”...to “Why in the world would you do that?!”...to “Good for you, girl!”...to a knowing “mmmmhmmmm”. To be fair, the ‘mmmmhmmm’ was …
I do a gratitude exchange every night with a friend in another country. We’ve been doing it (off and on) for about 4 years now, I think. Sometimes we’re better at it than others....sometimes we let months go by without a text and then one of us with pop in with “can we start our …
It’s not often I just sit with my feelings. My brain whirs and whirs in circles like a Tazmanian Devil. Sometimes it’s a cute little hamster buzzing about in there, but other times it’s a Tazmanian Devil. Thinking and re-thinking and overthinking. Thinking about whether or not something I said in confidence to someone would …
Day 11...and that is the motivational message on my Sober Tracker app. “Sobriety is a journey, not a destination”. It’s also such a personal journey. Everyone’s relationship with alcohol is different. One person’s ‘not much’ is another person’s ‘too much’. I’ve been toying back and forth with the ‘why am I doing this?’...and ‘is 90 …
Today is day 10 and I’m fully committed to going the 90 days. I’m a little worried about the girls’ weekend, as typically a weekend like that would be a good excuse for Bailey’s in my coffee (wonder if there’s a good substitute for that somehow?), wine, gin & tonics, limoncello after dinner....and lots of …
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