Physical and mental changes produced by alcohol In this article we look at both the physical and mental changes produced by alcohol. Alcohol effects everyone in different ways, in the short term we can see everything from personality changes on a night out to more serious effects that drinking has had in the long term. […]
Dealing With The Mom Guilt From Past Drinking. It is almost two years since I had my last drink. At the time, I didn’t realize it would be, but that random day at the end of March 2018 led to a change in my life that I had been dreaming of for so long. I […]
What is Grey Area Drinking? The one thing that stopped me from doing something about my drinking sooner was the fact that I didn’t feel like an alcoholic. I still don’t and never will. I knew that something wasn’t quite right with regard to my drinking but because my friends and my husband had similar […]
Understanding alcohol. I know that alcohol is bad for us, a hangover is a sure sign that our bodies don’t like what we’ve put into it and loss of control, double vision, slurred speech, the spins and vomiting are just a few other things that happen to us when we drink so yeah, alcohol is […]
Drinkers Guilt We’ve all done it – woken up in the morning just a few hours after going to bed with that rotten hangover, as a home drinker it is simply far too easy to go over the top, the alcohol is cheaper, there’s no competition for the toilet, no bar ten deep in people, […]
When you start thinking about quitting drinking or cutting down it is easy to focus on what you believe the positives of alcohol
Quitting Drinking – Why can’t I just moderate? Before I happily stopped drinking alcohol for good I used to get so frustrated and upset with myself. Why couldn’t I just be ‘normal’ like everyone else? Why can’t I just have a couple of beers at the weekend and be happy about it? Why can’t I […]
Beer was my drink of choice for over 30 years, I started drinking at an early age from a can or two at the family barbeque and a free pint working in the pub kitchen to drinking every day until it became normal. In this article I talk about my own slow burn of destruction […]
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 […]
Break from Alcohol? Let’s look at 8 reasons you might need to take a break from alcohol and I am so glad that you are here, reading this because perhaps you’ve been wondering about your drinking lately and whether it is taking over your life? Maybe you’re pretty sure you’re drinking too much but is […]
