Well, it has been a hectic week. I started back at college and it seems my feet haven’t touched the floor. I am at college for four days a week, one day of which is from 9am to 9pm and I am exhausted. Second year requires so much more work than I could ever have…
So much more than giving up drinking
Day 7 of sobriety, and what a week it has been. My body clearly doesn’t like this feeling. Today is Saturday and it is the first time in years I have woken up on a Saturday where I haven’t hammered the wine the night before, yet I still woke up with a dry mouth and…
If you don’t pick up a drink, you can’t get drunk
Early morning of Day 5 of sobriety. I slept well for the first time in almost a week. DH had given me some natural, over-the-counter sleeping tabs and perhaps that was the reason. Perhaps it was the prayer that I made to God to please give me a rest, to let my mind quieten and…
The Road Less Travelled
So, it is day 4 of sobriety. It feels strange. It isn’t like just giving up drinking to detox or to give your liver a break for a while. This is life changing abstinence. I have that strange feeling in the pit of my stomach that tells me nothing will be the same again. Intellectually,…
Powerless over Alcohol
Day 2: I am powerless over alcohol. No-one likes to admit this and I am no exception. I have known, of course, for years that this is the case, but like any grieving process, I was in denial. People who are alcoholics do grieve. They grieve the loss of being that good time person, the…
Up in the Air should Up and Leave
I have to admit that I am not a George Clooney fan. I must be one of a rare breed of forty-somethings who have never found him remotely sexy. I would watch him in ER and the Ocean’s movies and somehow never managed to get caught up in Clooney-fever. But then I have never been…