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I am enough…
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, calm, self-care | 6For some reason these three simple words often make me teary. If you can say this to yourself -...
I've done a lot of work on myself since I quit drinking nearly 9 years ago. And the biggest...
5 o'clock was bloody hard for me in the early days of getting sober. Very bloody hard. Because this...
Achievable self-care during the pandemic
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, compassion, lockdown, pandemic, self-care | 6Crazy. Unprecedented. Strange. Extreme. Sad. Worrying. Topsy-Turvy. All good words to describe this global pandemic we're living through. It's...
As we all know we live in a booze soaked world and nowhere is this more apparent than online....
Yoga To You (Guest Post)
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, calm, cravings, self-care, video | 5This guest post comes from sober hero and yoga teacher Sue (@suek). ============ Everyone knows they should be doing...
Learning to understand ourselves
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, brain re-training, fun, gratitude, happy, self-care, socialising | 7I knew after I stopped drinking that if I was going to be genuinely at peace with being sober,...
This is a guest post from the wonderful @SueK. ============== When I first stopped drinking, it was painfully obvious...
When I first quit drinking there were two main new habits (or tools) that I embraced early on to...
This 'Sober First Aid Kit' concept comes from my lovely friend @suek, and it's brilliant. She wrote this guest post...
Tiredness….
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, emotions, self-care | 15Tiredness has a lot to answer for I reckon. Without us even realising it. Living in a state of...
Whether you are newly sober right now or have been living without alcohol for some months (or years) you deserve a...
I’ve been to quite a few parties as a sober person now and generally I don’t have a problem...
Getting sober and living sober are two very different things. One is a short(ish) term project that is hard work...
Christmas Is Coming (Guest Post)
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, community, drinking-culture, emotions, self-care, socialising | 9This guest post comes from the lovely and very wise Suzy Morrison who works in the addiction sector and...
Silly Season Inspirations (Pictorial Post)
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, calm, gratitude, self-care, self-help | 26The end of the year can be a particularly tricky time for us sober people. Lots of financial pressures, social events to...
We are so fortunate in today’s world that we can do all manner of research, investigation and exploration from...
Today is day 1630 of sobriety for me and this is proving an interesting time for me right now… The...
I deserve this…
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, brain re-training, bravery, emotions, self-care, self-help | 17Once again here I am going on about brain re-training. It is VITAL! It is CRUCIAL! It is HUGELY...
Self-Care (guest post)
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, calm, happy, hope, self-care, self-help | 19We talk about self-care a lot here at Living Sober. It’s so ridiculously important. Right now for me it’s the...
The little things…
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, gratitude, happy, self-care | 23It seems to me that a lot of people have been commenting in the Members Feed recently about all...
There’s so much talk in sobriety about us all learning to take care of ourselves (so often a foreign...
Today’s guest post comes from Bren Murphy who writes the blog Last 100 Days Alcoholic. Bren was a HUGE support to me...
It’s such a loaded word ‘boundaries’. People say it with such gravitas sometimes. ‘Know your boundaries’ they might say...
Techniques for being around drinkers…
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, self-care, self-help, socialising | 21It’s definitely an extra layer of ‘hard’ for us sober people if we have to spend a lot of...
3 sober tips and a 9-point care plan (guest post by @PJNT)
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, bravery, gratitude, self-care, self-help | 17One of our fabulous members @PJNT has made it to over 160 days sober (whoop!), although she says she’s...
My darling friend @suek is gearing up to move to the other side of the world. I recently asked...
It’s all on….
Mrs D | | Mrs D's Blog, self-care, socialising | 14Christmas that is. It’s been coming at us like a runaway freight train … and now it’s here. Airports...
My darling friend @SueK had a tricky sober night out last weekend. Lucky for us she’s been able to brilliantly...
There’s a lovely man who goes by the member name @behind-the-sofa here at Living Sober and also leaves comments...