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Overcoming triggers and wobbles on your Sober journey

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How to recognise and get through triggers or wobbles when going sober. Thank you so much for reading my blogs, I hope the previous posts Deciding to be a sober Gal , What to expect in early Sobriety and attending your first big event have been a help and encouraged you on your journey.   If you haven’t read them yet, WHY NOT?   Go check them out. 😊 . It’s a given that the first few months are going to be hard, however, what happens when you are a few months down the line, feeling fabulous and suddenly you have that overwhelming voice in your head saying, “surely you can give up now” “will it really matter if you have a bottle of wine”? What I will say is, it’s your journey, you do you. It might be ok for you to decide to drink again, however for me, I know without a doubt it would end up being that slippery slope back to where I was querying my drinking habits.    I’ve had these wobbles a couple of times, confident that I can totally manage it, just have one n...

Deciding to be a Sober gal.

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 I don't consider myself an "alcoholic" and I don't know if I actually consider myself after over 8 months without booze "Sober" but I did at some point realise, that alcohol was becoming a problem in my life.   There is a saying amongst the sober community that "If you are asking yourself if it is a problem, then more than likely it is becoming one".   I, like all of my friends loved getting wild on a night out, opening the bottles of wine through the week when cooking dinner as a reward for a hard day at work, and liked "getting on it" at parties and festivals, however, when it was becoming apparent that "the Fear" was becoming more and more frequent and stopping at the supermarket every night to get the wine in was becoming a regular feature, I realised that, yes, it was becoming an issue.  I liked it though!    I was scared that I wouldn't be able to have fun and enjoy myself at the weekend.  How would I be able to go to...