Let's talk about 'the voice'. No, not the TV show - the one in your head trying to convince...
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I was interviewed by a journalist a few years back (you can read the article here) and I was...
5 o'clock was bloody hard for me in the early days of getting sober. Very bloody hard. Because this...
Mrs D's advice for getting sober and beating those alcohol cravings, urges and triggers. "The good news is that...
Visualisation was a really powerful tool for me early on. It was one of my main strategies for dealing with...
This guest post comes from sober hero and yoga teacher Sue (@suek). ============ Everyone knows they should be doing...
Cravings are arseholes. They hit and they can be so powerful and they suck. Often they come on the...
That's where most of my boozing went on in the latter years. Behind closed doors, in my house, on...
I go on a lot about brain-retraining in early sobriety... how we need to really embrace the reality of...
....but the problem is, if you let yourself down often enough, break promises you've made to yourself constantly and often...
That's how I think of early sobriety. You've jumped off the Boozy Cliff into a ginormous field of Thick Sludgy Mud...
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...
This guest post comes from Jay, the Community Outreach Director at One Mind Dharma. ========== On March 20th of...
This might seem a bit silly and trite but I’m often incredulous about this. Before I got sober I...
A restauranteur friend just emailed Mr D and said “I can get my hands on a stunning Central Otago pinot noir...
(Warning: Long Post with some science-y stuff in the middle) I’m kind of reluctant to post this because –...
I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by a journalist writing an article on online recovery. She sent me...
I was asked on my Facebook page how I felt about boozy deserts like sherry trifle or crepes with orange...
