February 18, 2020 February 18, 2020 is the day I stopped drinking alcohol. This isn’t a first for me. I’ve a history with struggles of alcohol addiction. Life is Good Life truly is better without alcohol. I feel healthier. I have more energy. My face isn’t puffy. My belly isn’t bloated. My heartburn is gone….
Category: My Alcoholism
Personal Development – A Wild Woman Redefined? Absolutely!
Introduction Time on My Hands My OYNB blog talks about drinking wine after work and on the weekends. I had an itch after I published that blog, that I had left something out – something was missing. It was later in the day I realized what it was. I became very aware of the time…
One Year No Beer – 28-Day Alcohol Free Challenge
Introduction This Wild Woman’s Newest Alcohol Chapter Begins…. With living alone up in a low mountain for the winter, two cases of wine sitting there on the extra bedroom floor, and not having to be accountable to anyone… Soon, I was drinking almost a bottle of wine a night. Nothing unusual about that, right. This…
Personal Development – This Wild Woman Still Struggles With Alcohol
Here I sit, in a small cabin located up in a low mountain, settled in for a winter season of change. This season alone, as my husband is in British Columbia taking care of personal business, I have the solitude for reflection before embarking on a new chapter in our lives. This new chapter begins…
Reiki Principle For Today – I Will Not Worry
Originally Published: November 26th, 2019 This morning I’m thinking about rejuvenation, transformation, and healing. I’ve been consciously working on myself for 22 years. In 1997 I checked myself into a 28 day program for alcohol addiction. At that time, mental health diagnoses was also put on the table. Today, in 2019, I still struggle with…
Personal Development – After 10 Months – This Wild Woman Is Drinking Again
Drinking Again August 18th, 2018 – June 19th, 2019 – I had almost 10 months of living alcohol free while living in Qatar, then the day we repatriated back to Canada, I drank a beer on that very same day. How To Reconcile This I’m a Reiki Master Teacher of Usui Shiki Ryoho – the Usui…
Is Too Much A Choice Or Addiction?
This February 18th, I’m coming up to 6 months of living a non-drinking life. No, I don’t call myself an alcoholic – because back in 1997 – 2002 – I had 5 years of sobriety within the 12-Step rooms. My life was so very different back then – I was just stepping into the very…
Personal Development – Still Alcohol Free
There is a book, I haven’t read it but know of it, called Cutting the Ties That Bind by Phyllis Krystal. I bring this up because for decades, freeing ourselves of the false security, the shadow of dependency on another person, thing or condition is a common malady brought to therapists who help others let go…