What I Don’t Miss About Drinking
When you start thinking about quitting drinking or cutting down it is easy to focus on what you believe the positives of alcohol
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Lockdown Drinking – Changing Our Relationship With Alcohol
From the initial reports of panic buying of loo rolls and alcohol at the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic, lockdown drinking is a phrase that most of us are familiar with. While some people jokingly talk of get togethers over Zoom with wine, there is a worry that the increased alcohol consumption, drinking in isolation […]
10 Effective Ways to Deal With Alcohol Cravings
10 Effective Ways to Deal With Alcohol Cravings. I have had lots of messages from people lately about how they are struggling with cravings for alcohol at the moment, more so than usual given the situation we are currently in. I understand why, we are being bombarded with memes on social media about how drinking […]
Dealing with Addiction through Writing
Quitting drinking, whether with the idea of quitting for good or just taking a few months off, can reveal holes in our lives that we used to fill with drinking and we then search for ways to fill this hole with something else, to make us whole again. This blog post is an introduction to […]
Physical and Mental Changes Produced by Alcohol
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
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?
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 – Q & A with Dr Clara Vasquez
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 – Common regrets of being a home drinker
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, […]
Quitting Drinking – Why Can’t I Just Moderate?
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 […]