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10 things to spend your money on instead of alcohol – What could you buy instead??? Have you ever worked out how much money you spend on alcohol? Sitting down with a pen, paper and a calculator can be a real eye opener, it’s easy to throw a few bottles of wine into the shopping […]
Waking up on January 1st with a throbbing head and a sense of dread is how we usually feel, knowing that we’ve indulged in far too much excess over the festive season and need to change, yet we begin the day with that familiar feeling of unease about tackling the month without alcohol. We know […]
Reasons to take a break from alcohol – Dry January and Beyond It’s that time of year again when we’re setting our intentions for the new year, vowing that this time it will be different and telling ourselves ‘new year, new me’ Many of us are also thinking about taking part in Dry January (I […]
When my husband and I first stopped drinking alcohol in March 2018, we began a quest to find a delicious, non alcoholic drink to enjoy with all of the flavour but none of the pain. As beer drinkers, naturally we looked to the alcohol free beer market and as we live in the land of […]
Too many day 1’s Day one again quitting alcohol? Going back to Day one again and again is very frustrating, upsetting and soul destroying when you are quitting alcohol. I see it all the time, it happens to the best of us and I too had my fair share of day one’s until I finally […]
I talk alot about being a sober mum but what’s it like being a sober dad? My husband and I started our sober journey together and we now have a totally alcholo free home and life – it’s great, better than I could have imagined. Below is my husband’s story about the best bits of […]
I was very lucky when I began my journey into not drinking because my husband and I did it together. In fact he started a day before me because we still had a few beers left in the house and I had to drink away the temptation first! Don’t let other people spoil your sobriety […]
I have never been much of a juice or soft drink fan, although I used to love a bottle of ‘Barr’s Irn Bru’ (remember that?) with my fish and chips on a Friday night! When I stopped drinking alcohol, I still didn’t fancy drinking juice or soft drinks of any kind – until I discovered […]
Everybody is different when it comes to drinking. I work with people who drink in the pub everyday and there are those who only go on weekend benders, or find that their social drinking has got out of hand, but the majority of people are just like I was – they prefer drinking at home. […]
Sober Christmas survival guide Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, it’s also the most stressful. If, like me, you will be celebrating your first sober Christmas then you might be feeling a bit overwhelmed, worried or nervous about how you are going to get through Christmas sober without going crazy. To prepare […]