5 Tips For Sticking With Your Dry January Goals
We’re two weeks into 2017 and you know what that means: it’s make or break time for your New Year’s resolutions. Statistically, this is the week when many of us will decide to give up on our goals. We all know what it’s like…
10 Tips For Surviving Your First Sober Christmas
If you’re newly sober – or trying to be – then the chances are, you find this time of year a bit stressful. There are parties to navigate, family pressures to deal with and lots of boozy marketing messages all over the place. When you’re one of…
Hangover Cures, The Festive Spirit (And A Few Big Fat Lies)
Christmas is just around the corner and we are officially in party season. I’ve noticed some magazines also call this time of year ‘hangover season’, which would explain the sudden rush of articles with headlines like…
Fact vs Fiction: Is Alcohol Helping Me Cope With Stress?
“It’s been a stressful day. I want a drink!” We’ve all heard other people say they need a few drinks to unwind, and the chances are we’ve also said it ourselves. The idea of drinking away our stress is very well established in…
How To Deal With People Who Want You To Keep Drinking
It can be really tough if your friends and family don’t understand why you want to quit, or worse still, they try and convince you not to bother. In early sobriety, mastering alcohol-free living is challenging enough without the added…
What Kids Can Teach Us About Alcohol-Free Living
Here’s a quick question for you to ponder: would you ever give alcohol to a child? No? What if they were upset? Or needed cheering up? Or they were anxious about something? Or just a bit lonely? Still no? Phew. I thought that’s what…
Fact vs Fiction: Does Booze-Free Mean Boring?
Before I stopped drinking, I thought I knew what alcohol-free living would be like. I was convinced that sobriety was going to be as boring as hell. Alcohol seemed to be the thing that made everything sparkle. It turned bad nights into…
8 Things Normal Drinkers Don’t Do
How often have you asked yourself, ‘Do I really need to stop drinking?’ Answering that question truthfully can be hard, especially when you desperately want the answer to be ‘no’. When it comes to defining problem drinking…
3 Things To Try When You’ve Lost Your Motivation
If you’ve ever gone through a phase where you feel like you’ve lost your motivation to do anything about your drinking then you’re not alone. Nearly all of us go through this at some point. One minute you’re full of enthusiasm…
3 Fears Keeping You Stuck (And How To Beat Them)
Fear is a bitch sometimes. It’s a natural instinct, something designed to keep us safe and help us survive. It can be a brilliant internal warning system. But when it comes to sobriety – a major lifestyle change, whichever way you look at it…