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Remember (Guest Post)
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, gratitude, honesty, raw | 16This guest post comes from Mark Goodson, author of the blog 'The Miracle of the Mundane" (great title, great...
Sober Hindsight
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, calm, hope, raw | 9Sober Hindsight is one of my favorite things about living alcohol-free. Sober Hindsight is something you only really experience when...
I'm not sure that you can just stop drinking alcohol and make no other changes or do no other...
How do you move on from the need to escape?
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, brain re-training, bravery, emotions, raw | 17Someone once asked me: "How do you move on from that need to escape your feelings by soaking yourself...
Today I am not going to shy away from anything that is happening to me. I'm not going to...
Illuminating and rewarding
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, calm, community, hope, raw | 16Boy does life change when we quit drinking and are no longer subject to the impacts of artificially altering our...
This guest post comes from Katrina Tanirau, a journalist living in Matamata. She reached out to me via Facebook offering...
I have to be honest, sometimes I feel like a fraud because I’m not in the slightest bit ‘cured’...
You are Brave and Amazing
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, brain re-training, bravery, emotions, raw, writing | 5I just got a random lovely email from a dude in Utah – he works at Thistle Creek Ranch...
I’m interested in the concept of boredom … particularly how it relates to boozing & sobriety. I always used...
Service (and how it keeps us sober)
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, anonymity, community, emotions, honesty, raw | 8I’m having an emotional couple of days. I was a bit shaky yesterday, cried at Yoga last night –...
We are not boring losers…!
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, brain re-training, calm, happy, hope, raw, socialising | 9We’re just people who don’t drink alcohol. I’ve just been hanging the bunting in the dining room for tonight’s...