If you’re heading into your first holiday season as a newly minted Sober Hero and are apprehensive, know that you can definitely have your alcohol-free eggnog and enjoy it, too. In fact, you’re more likely to enjoy it. Why?...
It’s December 4, and the pressure is on. The Christmas decorations were out at Costco the second Halloween was over, and holiday music has been blaring in stores for weeks already. We’re bombarded with ads featuring rosy-cheeked children opening lavishly wrapped presents in delight, agreeable,...
I had a tarot card reading this week. It did not go as expected! Note to self: just because someone is “spiritual” does not mean they are kind, or know how to hold space....
Years agon, I read somewhere that booze is an elevator that only goes down. I think this is a fabulous analogy. And if this elevator only goes down, why wait until you reach the bottom before you get off? Things will only get worse, not...
I just finished a fascinating and illuminating book called The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, and I wish I had read it when I first ditched the booze! It sheds a lot of light on why we do the things we unconsciously do, and...
Some people call it the Wine Witch, or the Fanatic in the Attic. Belle Robertson named it Wolfie. Me, I couldn’t come up with a creative name of my own, so I decided not to dignify it with one. But we’ve all got it: that...
Uh-oh, it’s that time of day again. 4 o’clock. The Craving Committee has convened! God forbid they should reschedule JUST THIS ONCE. But no, they’re terminally punctual. So what’s a newly minted Sober Superhero to do? ...
Language Matters. Terms like Alcoholic, Addict and Abstinence are unhelpful, and keep many a soul stuck in the murky no man’s land between social and destructive drinking. At some point I realized that I didn’t have complete control over my drinking. I was trying to...
So, when I quit drinking, my tummy started doing strange things. I mean, apart from the messed-up gut microbiome and vitamin/mineral deficiencies. Not looking so hot from this angle, are you now, Mr. Rosé? Anyways, I started noticing this weird, jittery feeling around the end...
1- Alcohol is actually ethanol. Essentially, you will be drinking what will become an “alternative fuel” when climate change hits us in the face. Wait, but that sounds like poison? Yes, yes it does. That’s why you will throw up after you drink too much in...
So, you’ve decided to give this sober thing the old college try! Your first outing is coming up, and you’re understandably nervous. After all, you likely haven’t enjoyed a sober night out since you were a teenager. Here are my top tips to make the...
If a child asked you “What is alcohol?”, you’d probably come up with answers like “beer”, “wine” or “whisky”. But those aren’t alcohol. Those are just disguises that alcohol wears to make itself attractive....
So, the fire alarm went off in my building about an hour ago. It’s 8:30 p.m., and they just let us back in. It was a false alarm, thankfully, no harm done. I feel a bit pumped, actually! But had this happened 3 years ago,...