8 Tips For Surviving Silly Season Sober
In this blog Lucy shares eight powerful strategies to help you get through the silly season without drinking alcohol. This time of the year can be a challenge for anyone who isn’t drinking. The celebratory nature of the holidays is insidiously intertwined with drinking, with alcohol marketing in full force. There are more boozy events […]
A Fairytale Story of Sobriety & Self-Love.
by Angela Carstens. “Practice self-love.”Everyone. Everywhere. “Sure, I hear you, but to be honest I don’t really know how to love myself… I don’t really know what I like, and I’m not really sure I can feel anything anyway. But thanks for the advice.” Me before sobriety. I am sure I am not alone in […]
Being Alcohol-Free: Our Students’ Favourite Things
This blog reveals our students’ favourite things about being alcohol-free, in their own words. In our private Facebook group, we asked our students what their favourite thing about alcohol-free living was. Here’s what they said: “UNBROKEN SLEEP!!! It’s like a drug all on its own, extra energy, less afternoon lag and generally feeling kind of […]
Lucy’s Two Year Sober Anniversary Reflection
In this blog Lucy shares the magic she has found two years into sobriety and some of the ways you could be holding yourself back if you’re alcohol-free and not finding joy in this lifestyle change. If someone had told me this time two years ago, that by removing alcohol from my life I would […]
Why asking “Am I an alcoholic?” isn’t helpful.
Grappling with the question ‘Am I an alcoholic?’ keeps many of us drinking long past alcohol’s expiry date in our lives. You find yourself drinking more than you’d like, struggling to cut down and quietly wondering if you have a problem. You think about what a drinking problem looks like and the stereotypical alcoholic comes […]
