Eight and a half months into my Sober Journey, I could never have imagined it would be like this. I had not envisioned that I could manage a birthday sober, a Thanksgiving sober, a Christmas and New Year sober, all during a frickin’ pandemic. I have experienced isolation, quarantine, employment endings with layoffs due toContinue reading “Sobriety Stew”
Category Archives: Awareness
Stop the Fantasy
I feel like I’ve crossed a threshold. At seven months sober, I have experienced the joy of blissing out on the “pink cloud” of sobriety, especially from around 6 weeks sober to around 5 months sober. I felt so proud of myself; solid in my decision, determined, certain, inspired, resolute, if not just a littleContinue reading “Stop the Fantasy”
It’s okay to just BE
This time of the year often brings a busy-ness that can lead to crazy making. With “to-do lists” that never end, obligations and responsibilities that extend in way too many directions sometimes hang over us, choking us. We all seem to have overfilled schedules. It’s no wonder our sanity is pushed to its limits! ThroughContinue reading “It’s okay to just BE”
Coasting-Day 212
Two hundred twelve days. Not a drop of alcohol swallowed in all that time. I’ve been told the first year of sobriety, or sometimes even the first couple of years, can be a wild roller coaster ride until all part of ourselves arrive at renewed equilibrium and balance. It can be a long healing journeyContinue reading “Coasting-Day 212”
Mindset
There are a few tiresome, well-used names and labels in our culture that I absolutely do not embrace. One of those is “Alcoholic”. It is absurd and ridiculous to me to label someone as diseased, piling on a load of shame while singling them out as weak, unable to control their addiction, somehow flawed. WeContinue reading “Mindset”
Clarity
Every decision I make comes from a desire. My decision to stop drinking alcohol came from the desire to regain my vitality, to feel great, to live my best life. I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. My life has included makingContinue reading “Clarity”
Booze Musings…I love this message and have written often my very similar opinions. I will be forming a community soon for anyone interested in exploring sobriety from a positive perspective. It will be “The Ex-Booze Club”. Let me know if you are interested in joining! Enjoy this awesome article about WHY labels don’t help anything:
Don’t Label Me Alcoholic Because I Choose Not to Drink By Boozemusings Communityin Maggy M, Top posts for BOOM Community Lots of folks these days, seem fired up about ending the stigma and/or shame of being in recovery, but I still see the labels of “alcoholic” and “addict” tossed about and used by some ofContinue reading “Booze Musings…I love this message and have written often my very similar opinions. I will be forming a community soon for anyone interested in exploring sobriety from a positive perspective. It will be “The Ex-Booze Club”. Let me know if you are interested in joining! Enjoy this awesome article about WHY labels don’t help anything:”
My WHY
Sober Curious? I was asked what made me start writing my blog, “Fiercely Sober”, which is material for my book. Here is my reply: My intention is to be part of the pro-sobriety movement, shifting preconceived notions that sobriety is dull, hard, or in any way less fulfilling than a booze-filled life. I hope toContinue reading “My WHY”
Overcoming
Life is an obstacle course and how we navigate the obstacles is up to us. I have overcome some pretty great challenges in my days: incessant torment in early childhood by older brothers, bullying by playmates and others, sexual abuse both in childhood and adulthood, loss of my father early in adulthood and loss ofContinue reading “Overcoming”
Nurture over Numb
I just finished hiking with one of my favorite people in the entire world. Tuesday Trail Therapy, 4.5 miles of processing whatever comes up or has come up in our lives the past few days. I was sharing how my cup is feeling pretty empty these days with everything going on, most recently a hugeContinue reading “Nurture over Numb”
