Thinking vs Acting – the First Steps to Recovery
Making changes to your alcohol habits is a massive undertaking. It can take months – years even – to get to the point where you actually stop drinking. And thatโs okay, because transformation is a long process and it starts from deep within. Often things can be moving well along in the direction of change […]
The Gift of Desperation in Addiction Recovery
You feel utterly weird when you first quit drinking. I certainly did. I felt like a sober alien who had been beamed down onto a boozy planet. Like a foreigner in my own life, completely out of context and uncomfortable to say the least. It’s a rough transition… Iโd go to social gatherings […]
What are My Kids Thinking (About my Sobriety)?
I have so many โhow on earth could I be doing this if I was still boozingโ moments nowadays, but none more so than when Iโm driving my kids around in the evening to their activities. My Three Sons… This happens a lot given Iโve entered that phase of parenting when I seem to […]
