Do you hate sobriety, resent recovery, and loathe the fact that you’re free from drink and drugs? Here are some common grumbles and stumbling blocks of people new to sobriety and recovery, and five ways to see it all a bit differently. 1. Thinking Your…
Back in the day, I used alcohol whenever I was stressed. Quite frankly, I used alcohol for everything, but if life was difficult, my drinking definitely went up. If things felt like too much to cope with, the bottle would always seem to sort things…
Addiction is a self-rewarding cycle, which is why it often continues even when you despise it. Drinking and drugging makes your brain release dopamine, which leads to you craving more and more of the same substance. The good news is that although addiction is a…
While some people are more prone to developing addictions than others, anyone can fall prey to internet addiction. Modern life means that YouTube binging, social media addiction, internet rabbit holes, and incessant scrolling can snare anyone. Internet algorithms are designed to get you addicted. These…
So you’ve found yourself drinking or using drugs again? Or perhaps you haven’t reached that stage yet, but all the red flags are waving, and it seems to be only a matter of time before you pick up a drink or drug. Or maybe you’re…
And Not a Drop to Drink. It’s everywhere, alcohol, isn’t it? But what do you do if you want to stop drinking, or you’ve committed to sobriety, and yet booze is all around you? Maybe your friends and family are still drinking, your partner drinks…
1. It’s All or Nothing In for a penny, in for a pound, right? Well, no. Extreme thinking and behaviour does no-one any favours. When we lean to the extremes, we never see what we are missing out on inbetween. I used to suffer from…
In recovery from alcoholism, it’s common to have thoughts about drinking again. When problems arise or when your mood is low, it can be tempting to dull the pain with alcohol. Even when you’re happy, your sobriety can be at risk. Seeing others drink ‘normally’,…
Not everyone who experiences something traumatic will be scarred in a life-altering way. This means people who develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or other trauma responses sometimes blame themselves for their mental health. However, the main factors that cause trauma responses are situational, and not…
Here are five things I thought would really suck about quitting alcohol that ended up not sucking at all. I hope sharing what I feared about sobriety and recovery will help you realise that whatever your worries about going sober, things will likely not turn out as bad as…
