Category: Sobriety
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Five Wellness Lessons that Contradicted What I Thought I Knew
Wellness is more than just fitness. If you Google “wellness,” you will get all sorts of different results. My favorite definition and the one that speaks to me the most is “wellness is the act of practicing healthy habits on a daily basis to attain better physical and mental health…
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Mommy Wine Culture
There’s been a trend in recent years of moms drinking wine as a way to cope with the stress of parenting. You may have heard the term “mommy wine culture,” and this is exactly the trend it’s referring to. Mommy wine culture has been prevalent on social media and other…
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Alcohol-Free Alternatives
Korey and I started our first year of sobriety right after Thanksgiving, 2021. We purposely planned this to start before the holidays ramped-up for the year because our mindset was if we started the year off with the hardest time of the year to not drink, then the rest of…
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Delivering the News: Useful Tips for Telling People You’re Not Drinking
So, you’ve made the decision that you’d like to attempt exploring a life or a month or a Saturday night without alcohol. Congrats on any of those choices. First and foremost, this is your journey and you don’t owe anyone shit. Not the truth. Not the sugar-coated answer they want…
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6 Steps for Reprioritizing Your Life
Tale of a People Pleaser Right out of college, I ended up taking a job in Kansas City, MO. I moved across the country completely alone and started this life for myself in a completely foreign place without knowing a single soul. This may seem like no big deal for…
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The “Ah-Ha!” Moment (or not so much…)
I never had an “ah-ha” moment or a time the light bulb went off that I should stop drinking. It was more of a gradual realization with lots of small clues along the way. I tried short stints of sobriety and lots of moderation rules for a couple of years…
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Sobriety
Sober. I hate that word. It sounds so sad. Before I stopped drinking, I basically replaced the word “sober” with “boring.” I didn’t think anyone was sober because they wanted to be. Sobriety was something you had to become because you had a problem. My stance on this has completely…
Shimmer & Shame 