The lady at the supermarket was very cheerful as she asked me this question. She was dressed smartly, standing...
Tag Archive for: brain re-training
I talk about this often, how I had to do a lot of really hard work retraining my brain...
I've been to many parties as a sober person and generally I don't have a problem with them (unless...
It's very hard to explain the intensity of a drinking dream to someone who isn't sober. It's one of those...
I think a big part of the reason I've never picked up a drink since I made the decision...
Let's talk about 'the voice'. No, not the TV show - the one in your head trying to convince...
Someone suggested that I write a letter to my past addicted self. So I did and you can see...
Visualisation was a really powerful tool for me early on. It was one of my main strategies for dealing with...
I knew after I stopped drinking that if I was going to be genuinely at peace with being sober,...
I go on a lot about brain-retraining in early sobriety... how we need to really embrace the reality of...
Someone once asked me: "How do you move on from that need to escape your feelings by soaking yourself...
Ok that was SUPER fun!! Loved that 'Bullshit' game in the last post and thanks everyone for playing. You...
That's how I think of early sobriety. You've jumped off the Boozy Cliff into a ginormous field of Thick Sludgy Mud...
"You'll never have fun at a party again if you stop drinking." That is BULLSHIT! A party is fun...
It’s just bullshit all the lies that are fed to us about all the wonderful things alcohol brings to...
You know those thoughts that fly at you trying to convince you to drink or telling you you’re a...
I’ll be honest I had a sad pang about not drinking the other day and had to quickly run...
A year or so ago I took part in a free online Mindfulness Summit which was amazing! I felt like I was...
A lovely man who worked in the addiction sector here in New Zealand passed away recently. His name was David...
Once again here I am going on about brain re-training. It is VITAL! It is CRUCIAL! It is HUGELY...
Alcohol is such a tricky drug. On the surface it appears to help us deal with things by relaxing us...
The Silly Season is fast approaching and already there are rumblings in the Members Feed about what a difficult...
This might seem a bit silly and trite but I’m often incredulous about this. Before I got sober I...
There’s so much talk in sobriety about us all learning to take care of ourselves (so often a foreign...
Did you know that when you get sober you develop X-Ray eyes? You do! It’s amazing. @chatnoir discovered this...
On my lowest days I sometimes have glum thoughts about my sobriety. It happens rarely nowadays (at 3+ years sober)...
Member @Zentient wrote this in the members feed a couple of days ago… “Trigger! And I don’t mean Roy...
Oh how scornful I used to be about naval gazing! “Naval gazing is for sissies” (I’d say). “People who always...
I just got a random lovely email from a dude in Utah – he works at Thistle Creek Ranch...
We’re just people who don’t drink alcohol. I’ve just been hanging the bunting in the dining room for tonight’s...
We’re hosting a big dinner party here on Saturday night. A 10th Anniversary Dinner Party Extravaganza! for our Antenatal...
