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Sobriety – The Beginning
Allow me to paint a picture, this being my 4th post on sobriety. I don’t want to give you any illusion that I have mastered the quit drinking game. I am currently 41 days sober! However, last year from the 2nd of January 2022, I made it past 100 days, I was so impressed with myself, others couldn’t believe I had done it, this even included 1 sober holiday for which I plan to write a separate post on. I was amazed but then….. I Drank. It was coming up to hubby’s birthday and I had booked a few days away, I convinced myself that if I didn’t drink whilst…
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Family and Getting Sober
I have always drank alcohol as you have read before, I never considered what that may have shown my kids as they were growing up, it is something everyone does so why wouldn’t we do this in front of the kids? I remember going for meals out with them, on occassion I would have a glass of wine and my husband would say to the the kids “watch this now, mummy will go all funny” like it was something good, I would laugh along with this thinking it was a fun way to show the kids how mum wobbles when sh’se had a drink, but now looking back, what were…
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Getting Sober – My Why
I couldn’t wait to start drinking, I had been brought up, like most, with the midset that to finally be able to drink meant you was a grown up – How exciting!! To at long last be able to have something which was forbidden for so long. Well, full disclosure here, I was allowed as a “treat” at Christmas a good old sweet tasting snowball was permitted with dinner, for those who have never experienced one of these it consisted of advocat, lemonade and a drop of lime, more of an alcopop than alcohol don’t you think? Then of course there was the fifteen year old obligatory getting smashed session…
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Getting Sober
2 years in the making, that’s how long it has taken so far. Not for lack of trying or wanting to give up. However, with the pressures of daily life, family members point of view and the general questioning of what if I really am missing out? Let me start at the beginning, why would I want to get sober? Well it came from a health prospective.Originally, it was more about my diet and weight loss not even considering alcohol and my endless drinking was part of the problem. Around 5 years ago frustrated with my body image, at the grand age of 43 I was doing everything I could…
