2023-02-01 14:58
Recently, my boyfriend and I escaped to Las Vegas for a quick weekend get-away. We needed to see the sun and get our minds off work, kids and life. I will say this as a disclaimer: Vegas is… Read More
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2023-01-25 17:52
Dry January 2023 took me on an unexpected roller coaster ride of emotions. The emotional upheaval wasn’t from dealing with withdrawal symptoms or feeling socially awkward without a dri… Read More
2023-01-07 15:18
Yesterday while dropping off a Dry January inspiration post on social media from my online community Boom Rethink the Drink, I stumbled over this bit of toxic messaging from America’s… Read More
2023-01-03 16:24
Are you committing to a Dry January? Excellent plan! January is a great month to set an alcohol-free resolution because it gives us much-needed time to focus on ourselves after the holiday s… Read More
2022-12-24 07:10
To everyone working to stay truly present this holiday season, the BOOM Rethink the Drink Community offers this alcohol-free inspiration from our 2022 archive – Staying sober does not… Read More
2022-12-15 10:24
Several times in the past few years, I made a resolution to stop drinking alcohol and to work hard at staying sober. I put my foot down with myself and said “Just Don’t Drink!&rd&hell…Read More
2022-12-03 11:41
I am reflecting this morning on feeling grateful for my alcohol addiction. Wait, what??? That seems crazy, right? Why would I be grateful for something that caused me so much pain and misery… Read More
2022-12-01 06:24
When I look back to when I was drinking alcohol I picture my body as a car on a wild rollercoaster ride, and alcohol had fastened the seatbelt so tightly around me I couldn’t release i… Read More
2022-11-26 10:13
I’ve often heard people say that when you stop drinking it is all but impossible to avoid slipping at some point. The common assumption is that almost everyone will lapse or relapse in… Read More
2022-11-23 14:59
There is a quote that I read in my first few months sober that said quite simply– “If you’re going to stop drinking you have to stop drinking” — seemingly obvio… Read More
2022-11-05 05:52
The HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us. That brilliant, colorful, high-energy marathon of joy and stress between October 31st and January 1st. There is no time of year with more pressure to drink tha… Read More
2022-11-01 14:42
Let the GAMES begin! Maneuvering the holiday season sober can feel like an Olympic event! My birthday, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve. So many excuses to drink… Read More
2022-10-27 17:12
I don’t know when I realized alcohol was a problem for me, but in my journal, I mentioned drinking too much 30 years ago, and in the last 10 years, there are more frequent references… Read More
2022-10-26 17:33
I used to look in the mirror the morning after a binge drinking session with heart palpitations and my head pounding, glazed eyes looking dully back demanding that ALCOHOL DOES NOTHING FOR M… Read More
2022-10-22 19:05
Have you ever heard of “decision fatigue? The brain can only make so many “good” decisions in a day. When you set a goal in the morning to stop drinking alcohol, then find… Read More
2022-10-18 16:54
It is not easy to stop drinking and stay sober. Sometimes people try and fail, and try and fail, in an endless cycle of frustration. We have a couple of sayings that are repeated often to pe… Read More
2022-10-08 06:46
‘Twas a Sober Octoberand all through my mindran a list of excuseswhy I should drink wine –
Now I know that I promisedthis month I’d be good –I’d quit poisoni… Read More
2022-10-06 17:07
Did you decide to do a Sober October this year but are finding staying alcohol-free more difficult than you expected?
Don’t give up! You just may find that with the right perspectiv… Read More
2022-10-03 18:31
Happy Sober October, everyone! We have 31 days to enjoy with clear minds and hearts unburdened by shame, our bodies free from poison, fatigue, and puffiness. Sobriety is kryptonite to shame!… Read More
2022-09-30 08:04
The holiday season can be overwhelming if you’re trying to stop drinking or stay sober. Why not get a leg up on some alcohol-free time by joining us for our Sober October celebration?… Read More
2022-09-22 12:25
When my son was a baby, my drinking would have been considered part of what is now (the very normal and encouraged) “Mommy’s wine time” culture.
I’d put him down f… Read More
2022-09-17 03:40
Dear Wine Witch,
Thank you. Thank you for always being there for me. You were always by my side for the good and bad, ups and downs through my adult life’s events. You never let me… Read More
2022-09-15 02:01
Exercise. I’ve always loved exercising. Surfing, swimming, biking, team sports, yoga….whatever. Exercise calms me down. It slows my ever-thinking mind for a wh… Read More
2022-09-11 20:14
Today is September 11th. Today is a day of unease. We grieve those lost in the United States twenty-one years ago, but this year many people also grieve the recent loss of a monarch who serv… Read More
2022-09-04 11:42
Today it’s over 11 months since I had a drop of alcohol. I now associate drinking with fear. It’s not fear about what’s going into me when I drink, it’s fear about wh… Read More
2022-08-30 15:49
I’d like to offer you a light-hearted invitation to a celebration – a celebration of taking back your freedom that we call Sober September. Actually, this month, the celebration… Read More
2022-08-27 06:23
Have you decided to give Sober September a try? Russ and Trev are our Boom Rethink the Drink community experts on taking a break from the booze, and they’d like to invite you to join u… Read More
2022-08-23 06:41
I was listening to the Heart of the Matter, a podcast on addiction and recovery hosted by Elizabeth Vargas, and she said someone in recovery described alcohol to her as first magic, then med… Read More
2022-08-21 20:58
Today I’m going to take a brief moment to write an open and anonymous letter to all of my colleagues who keep telling me some version of ‘you know it would be much more fun/bette… Read More
2022-08-15 14:30
One year ago today, was my last day one. The day I stopped drinking for good. I can’t even tell you how many times I made that promise to stop drinking today and broke it, and I can&rs&hell…Read More
2022-08-14 10:43
Are you sober curious? Give me 15 minutes of your time to Inspire you to give Sober a try today.
I think you just have to decideTo let the alcohol disappearLet go of hol… Read More
2022-08-12 16:06
I am living in a vacation area at the moment and looking at the fantasy and reality of drinking. It seems like everyone here centers their whole existence around alcohol. Watching this newly… Read More
2022-07-29 13:25
You take a drinkThe drink takes a drinkThe drink takes you
I grew up with the idea that most adults drank but some had a problem with alcohol. Adults who had a problem with alcohol were… Read More
2022-07-24 08:34
When I tried Dry January in 2020, I counted the days till I could drink again. After enduring rules, regulations, slips, and slides galore (i.e. moderation), I came back and tried again &hel&hell…Read More
2022-07-05 07:45
Today I discovered a quote, hidden in a 2009 email written to myself, where I was struggling with drinking, moderating, and perhaps abstinence?
Simply, it said:
“Do… Read More
2022-06-30 17:50
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Hearing that phrase used to make me cringe. It is a celebratory phrase. A hopeful phrase. A phrase that conjures up promise and joy. Yet be… Read More
2022-06-27 14:19
Not so long ago, I couldn’t imagine going a day without drinking. I drank 1-2 bottles of wine a night (or more). I remember feeling “proud” of myself when I came down to fi… Read More
2022-04-11 15:01
Have you ever felt like your anticipation of having a drink was greater than the pleasure derived from drinking it? A few years ago, I was drinking too much, too often, and I began to r… Read More
2022-04-04 09:56
When I first dipped my toe into thinking about stopping drinking, reading quit lit and following the online sobriety community, I had a severe case of the “I’m not THAT bad&rdquo&hell…Read More
2022-03-29 07:41
6 months ago my drinking was out of control and had completely taken over my life. To say I was motivated to go sober is without question. Here’s the thing though – my motivation… Read More
2022-03-28 06:01
You know how the dolls and toys come alive when the humans leave the room?…yeah that’s what happened with my alcohol bottles in their little liars club…they had an agenda… Read More
2022-03-25 06:05
There is a big sand dune at a beach I like to visit. I was a teen with my family the first time I saw it, took my husband there when we were dating and have loved sharing it with our kids an… Read More
2022-03-21 10:11
Drinking to escape became a habit almost as soon as I was legally allowed to buy alcohol. I would come home at the end of a long day, sit down, crack a beer, and let the day slip away as the… Read More
2022-03-16 10:39
[My last day 1- 7:38am on Monday, November 15th, 2021: Shaking of fear, heart throbbing, I dumped the remaining 2/3 of my 1.5L bottle of Folonari Suave white wine down the kitchen sink. And… Read More
2022-03-14 10:09
At 6 months sober I’d done loads of hard work and had lots of celebratory I AM SOBER! I AM FREE! moments. Most of us feel like we climb a mountain after emerging from a dark hole in ou… Read More
2022-03-10 04:54
When I was nearing the point where I had to stop drinking, or risk losing myself to alcohol, I turned to my Google bar and searched “what is a high functioning alcoholic?”. Like… Read More
2022-03-09 19:07
The early work of sobriety is not drinking. It feels like all you do, who you are, what you read and listen to, and why you are awake and trying again. The physical part can be pretty easy f… Read More
2022-03-08 21:45
Time Magazine, The Guardian, Vogue and The New York Times all reported in 2020 that alcohol related deaths have risen sharply since the beginning of this century and particularly among women… Read More
2022-03-05 16:11
I’ve been alcohol-free for almost 8 months and that means having to face a whole lot of things that I once drowned out with excessive daily drinking. I am in much of the same mindset t… Read More
2022-03-03 08:59
I moved less than a year ago and am still organizing and reconfiguring some books and journals. I have been struck by how many times I open a journal or notebook and see “I drank too m… Read More
2022-03-02 14:02
I was recently introduced to a podcast called SOBERTOWN at https://www.sobertownpodcast.com. Who are they at Sobertown?
We refer to ourselves as “Sober Warriors” because… Read More
2022-02-26 17:54
Sobriety and freedom were not words that I associated with one another until very recently. When I realized that I needed to stop drinking I was terrified that my life would become dull. Wit… Read More
2022-02-23 08:42
I once thought that if I was going to be successful at staying sober long term, I would have to join Alcoholics Anonymous and work the 12 steps, but as I near the beginning of my 7th-year al… Read More
2022-02-20 12:04
It’s hard to believe that I am one year sober today. One year ago when I stopped drinking, I couldn’t imagine where I would be now. I felt so guilty then, and ashamed of the draw… Read More
2022-02-14 17:39
Sobriety and life right now feels to me like I’m building a giant puzzle. I had some pieces to start but didn’t know where they belonged or how they would fit. I felt unsure, ner… Read More
2022-02-12 11:51
I’m a preschool teacher. A newly sober preschool teacher who stopped indulging in “wine time” when my drinking slid from concerning, to alarming. I’ve been noticing… Read More
2022-02-11 17:53
Are you enjoying life with two free hands instead of one wrapped around a drink? Congratulations! Alcohol-free is freedom!
When I was drinking I could not imagine a Sober Super Bowl Sund… Read More
2022-02-10 12:58
Today I am 11 months sober. That’s a big deal ! 11 months of change since I quit alcohol. I think I’m starting to get closer to that vision of myself I’ve had for so long… Read More
2022-02-08 13:40
Super Bowl Sunday is one of the Biggest challenges of the year for people who have recently stopped drinking. If your friends don’t know you’ve gone sober you may find yourself i… Read More
2022-02-07 16:38
After years of reports that moderate drinking was heart smart, it now turns out that No Amount of Alcohol Is Good for Your Heart and Any Amount of Drinking Is Bad for You. With nearly 1 in 5… Read More
2022-02-05 17:57
One of the best things I’ve heard lately about changing habits is a simple process of weighing A against B. The SMART recovery program has a worksheet they call Cost Benefit Analysis o… Read More
2022-02-04 15:15
I was terrified to give up alcohol. I could feel myself on the precipice of something so bad that I might not be able to come back from it. October 25th, 2020, was the last day I drank and i… Read More
2022-01-29 19:34
Have you ever asked yourself – Can I maybe learn to control my drinking or have I completely lost my off-switch with alcohol? I asked that question many times and always found through… Read More
2022-01-27 18:20
Why is it so hard to stop drinking? That is a question often asked in our online community and the answer is not as simple as it would seem. When I was in my early 40’s I read Allen Ca… Read More
2022-01-25 11:57
As Dry January is winding down, our Boom Rethink the Drink Community is getting ready to start our second of twelve annual alcohol-free challenges, with a singing contest for A Tuned in Febr… Read More
2022-01-22 20:07
Patience is something I have always struggled with. When I want something, I want it now. I have always been that way. I wanted to fast forward through childhood and be a teenager. Once I wa… Read More
2022-01-21 20:23
We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. —LeeAnn Taylor
One of my wise yoga teachers said that anything can be healed from the inside out. She’s on the money with that… Read More
2022-01-20 19:41
Drinking alcohol is something that is so ingrained in our expectations of a normal way to live, that it takes some pretty dramatic shake-ups for us to rethink how dangerously we drink… Read More
2022-01-13 20:38
A big fear of mine when things shut down in Spring 2020 was being without booze. When we first locked down to prevent the spread of Covid19, many of our governments deemed alcohol an essent… Read More
2022-01-11 12:31
When I was drinking I was in a very dark place. At first, the darkness was a quiet place that I craved. I allowed the darkness to consume me, even welcomed it at times, because I thought I h… Read More
2022-01-09 17:12
Sometimes I think back to what it was like. The phone calls, the screams, the fear in my throat wondering what the person ringing me was talking about. The fear of betraying someone and doin… Read More
2022-01-05 19:20
I’ve always thought that I drank to numb. To avoid. To not bloody feel. And that was true some of the time. But I don’t think the story ends there. I think sometimes, we drink t… Read More
2022-01-01 10:46
Have you made a resolution to stay alcohol-free in 2022? Congratulations! You can say good-bye to hangovers and welcome the gentle morning in. Alcohol-free means Hangover Free! and there are… Read More
2021-12-30 20:24
A Letter to my Drinking Self 13 months ago-
You are stronger than you know. Yes. Really you are. You just need to want sobriety bad enough. And right now you don’t.
And you als… Read More
2021-12-28 13:57
Have you decided to go sober in 2022? If you are thinking about stopping drinking that is a good beginning, but actually going alcohol-free when you’ve been drinking habitually can be… Read More
2021-12-26 20:40
I was talking with a friend this morning who mentioned that she was going to write down 22 things she hoped to achieve in 2022. What a great idea! I searched the internet to see if I could f… Read More
2021-12-23 10:12
Last year some of the long-term members of our BOOM Rethink the Drink Community shared their “Posts of Sober Christmas Past” or more simply said, their alcohol-free holiday… Read More
2021-12-16 12:50
December is upon us again and once again ’tis the season of alcohol and holidays. We romanticize, glamorize, and can be hypnotized by alcohol marketing, especially at this time of year… Read More
2021-12-07 16:20
December is upon us again and once again ’tis the season of alcohol and holidays. If you are trying to stop drinking because you find that more often than not you drink too much, or if… Read More
2021-12-02 18:59
I am over 2 1/2 years alcohol-free and I feel frustrated. While living AF is the great new normal for me the question in my third sober year is what is next? I want more. I have gratitude fo… Read More
2021-11-25 10:35
There is a classic film called “A Christmas Carol” from 1951 that was adapted from a Charles Dickenson book. In the film, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts, the g… Read More
2021-11-16 18:22
As I was thinking about how to write this article – how to best express my feelings about one whole year of sobriety – I remembered something I saw on an episode of Th… Read More
2021-11-11 18:24
It was ten months ago. Right at the beginning of the high-pressure holiday season. I had poured out the last of my vodka bottle and had finished my last beer. I knew that it was time to quit… Read More
2021-11-09 12:35
Have you ever heard that you can’t stop drinking with willpower alone? It’s true! But what does that actually mean? Of course, it takes willpower to stop drinking! You have to de… Read More
2021-11-07 20:56
When I was in my late 40’s, I found myself desperate to stop drinking but not sure how to do it. I’d been a “party girl” for decades but things were changing for me i… Read More
2021-11-04 16:03
I’ll be 7 years sober in March, and I owe that to something I never imagined I would find myself doing. Actively participating in an online community for support to stop drinking. In e… Read More
2021-10-31 15:48
I am excited for my first sober Halloween! I made up a batch of my ginger juice brew today so I am all ready to enjoy the night with a clear head. After a slip and a bit of a slide I am sta… Read More
2021-10-27 13:56
I was scrolling through headlines yesterday and this jumped out at me, Need for liver transplants due to heavy drinking soared during the pandemic. My first reaction was relief that I quit d… Read More
2021-10-25 11:20
I stopped drinking in 2020 during the height of the COVID 19 pandemic. My first year alcohol-free year was full of challenges, but thanks to endless lockdowns and working at home, dealing wi… Read More
2021-10-09 00:17
In early 2013 I realized that I might have an issue with drinking and control. I was successful, hardworking, athletic, and recently divorced. The divorce set me off my normal routine… Read More
2021-10-07 21:59
ALCOHOL PART 1
Over many years I was slowly sucked into papering over the thoughts in my head and the cracks in my life with the thought changing drug called alcohol.
My growing depend… Read More
2021-10-06 12:37
Going sober can be so hard in the beginning. Most of us feel a freezing shame when we decide that we need to stop drinking. We are afraid that we won’t be able to learn to live alcohol… Read More
2021-09-27 23:34
This morning, when I let my dog outside for his morning business, his stance went from the casual dog waiting for a treat, to an avid hunter, and he raced like a greyhound to the back corner… Read More
2021-09-25 12:46
I can’t say that I was ever really sober curious. Sobriety seemed to me to be very uncool. I loved to drink. I had a great time when I was drinking. Life in my early 20&rsquo&hell…Read More
2021-09-23 11:05
Yesterday I faced my fear of a hike that I was worried would be too hard for me. We were invited on this hike by a couple we had never hiked with before. They don’t know how alcohol ha… Read More
2021-09-20 11:50
I don’t think I ever fully understood the phrase “the work of sobriety”. Sobriety seemed a passive process. By its very nature – you don’t pick up a… Read More
2021-09-18 12:42
Procrastination, I swear I could get a masters in it! Here is how my mind worked for years over how to start, stopping drinking.
I want to stop drinking or at least to have a healthy cut… Read More
2021-09-12 04:04
I am 8 months sober today and could not be happier with my decision. I started a new job and am having trouble learning how to balance a 40 hour work week with being a mom. Still, I am so th… Read More
2021-09-10 05:44
I really never thought I could stop drinking after 30 years of daily alcohol excess. I’ve had periods where I’ve drunk less ( less meaning about 6 units on weekday nights!!) but… Read More
2021-09-07 08:22
When I quit drinking in August of 2020, I knew that I had to find a way to make it stick this time. Going back to drinking was absolutely not an option. No matter what I tried, it… Read More
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