Believe it or not, it is relatively easy to get sober, if – and it’s a big if – you really want that for yourself. The desire to get sober has to come from your inner being. It’s nowhere near as effective if it’s your other half that’s begging you to stop drinking. It’s your …
OK, I love puzzle-solving – cryptograms especially! It takes courage (albeit a tiny bit admittedly) to come out and say I enjoy solving them every night — because I’m more than a little addicted to them … a lot more than is probably healthy! The other night I solved a great cryptogram puzzle by Anne …
Teenage drinking is preferable to doing hard drugs, but I do have to wonder where teens get the money from to sustain their habit(s)? Are you a parent that just doles out pocket money because you feel guilty because you can’t spend as much time as you’d like with your kid(s) (because you’re busy putting …
Call it faith, call it a strong belief — the name of the game is to believe in yourself. Faith in yourself is not just related to quitting drinking, but to just about all areas of your life. You need to believe you can. It’s crucial. Law Of Attraction Some may call it ‘positive thinking,’ …
I still get annoyed when I have to call Football by its American term: Soccer. You think I’d get over it after over four decades of living in the USA! Why mention this? Well, I’m from the UK originally, and I’ve lived in sunny central Florida for the past 40+ years. I just heard that …
There comes a point in time when you know you have to get help. And when you discover the help you think you need costs an arm and a leg? Well, then it’s easy to talk yourself out of getting help. Right? You think can put your drinking problem on the back burner, but you’re …
How many times have you told yourself “I’ll quit drinking tomorrow” and when tomorrow comes, you head straight for the bottle … again. To say it’s frustrating is an understatement. We wonder what’s wrong with us. Old Habits It’s simply a bad habit. You’re on automatic pilot! In the “olden days,” the saying was “It …
We all get ’em. Those annoying urges. Sometimes you can quash ’em, sometimes you don’t and you give in. In a previous blog post, we followed up with Claire’s newly-created ritual and expanded upon creating a new ritual to replace the old in an effort to beat the urge to drink. At the end of …
It’s funny how easily your stomach turns its nose up at odors you once found pleasant but now abhor. A couple of nights a week, hubby pops himself a beer. Nothing wrong with that. He can handle alcohol and finds that one beer is enough — just enough to relax him after a long day at …
Guest Post by Alex Hello, I’m Alex (male). This is a story of what I call my “formal date from Hell.” It’s a demonstration of how being drunk can have really negative consequences. The story is true but the names and locations have been changed for privacy reasons. Keeping it Formal I used to work …
