10 Tips to Help You Socialise Sober (and Love It!)
In this blog, Lucy shares with us her top 10 tips to help you socialise sober. This month I am celebrating my 39th Birthday. After two years of lockdown birthdays I’ve decided to make a few plans to celebrate with my partner, close friends and family. The last time I celebrated my birthday with a […]
Dry July: What to Expect & tips for Success
Taking a break from alcohol is a great idea for everyone, no matter how much or little you drink. So if you have committed to partaking in Dry July, well done you! If you’re feeling like you really need to take a break from booze for a month, it’s likely you will benefit from doing […]
Member Blog – Freedom through the Eyes of Sobriety, by Georgina
It’s 2am and I am wide awake, tossing and turning. I can’t get back to sleep. My mind is racing. Why did I drink again? Why am I drinking so much? Why am I drinking so often? I don’t want to. Why can’t I stop? I googled: “am I an alcoholic?”. I can’t be. I […]
Five healthy ways to avoid Mum-Stress (hint – it’s NOT wine!)
When I was a drinker, I believed that my after-work wine was a reward for getting through a busy day juggling a stressful job and mum duties. I would leave the house early to drop my daughter at day-care before driving to work for an 8-hour day managing a team, deadlines and budgets, then racing […]
Getting the most out of Febfast
Back in 2014, I decided to take a month off drinking. I’d had a very boozy November, December, and January and my body felt saturated with alcohol. With February being the shortest month, I told myself it was the perfect period to go booze free (the shorter, the less painful, right?). But beyond deciding not […]
Can you drink alcohol normally after having a drinking problem?
There are different models or theories that seek to explain how and why people struggle with problem drinking. The two I want to focus on in this blog are the disease model and the learning model. The disease model tells us that problem drinking happens as a result of a disease that causes irreversible changes […]
Setting yourself up for a successful year!
So many of us love to start the new year by pulling out our journals and setting new intentions or goals to achieve throughout the year. But many of us struggle to maintain the momentum as the days and weeks tick by, and before we know it, we are wrapping up another year without achieving […]
What three years of sobriety has given me
We often forget to take the time to reflect on what we have accomplished, what we have learned and how we have grown. We are so focussed on moving forward, that we neglect looking back and honouring how far we have come. As I sit here today, writing this blog, I suddenly feel like I […]
Feeling your feelings when you’re used to numbing with alcohol
I will never forget how difficult it felt to sit with my feelings when I removed alcohol from my life for the first time in 2018. I felt raw and exposed, like all my skin had been removed. I was so out of practice when it came to sitting with emotional discomfort. I was so […]
How to stop romantisizing about alcohol NOW!
As the weather in Australia starts to warm up, with lockdown restrictions lifted and summer party vibes in the air, it can be enormously challenging as a sober person to not start romanticizing about alcohol. In fact, our students are often sharing with us how this time of year is the most triggering and hardest […]
