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: Personal Development
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…
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…
Personal Development – What Carnoustie Ayurvedic & Wellness Resort Taught Me
When I arrived at Carnoustie Ayurvedic & Wellness Resort in Kerala, India, I brought with me recently revealed issues of enmeshment which I had just started working on with a Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) psychologist in Qatar. This therapist and I were also discussing my past history of misdiagnosis and my desire to figure out…
Personal Development & Laws of Attraction as Reiki Becomes a Way of Life
Coming up to 7 months of living an alcohol free life as well as following a regular, early morning self-care practice that includes Reiki self-treatments, I’m noticing a shift in who I attract in my life and how this flows over into my small Reiki practice. What I have to compare this to is when…
Personal Development and Appreciating Authentic Moments
To me, at this time, an authentic moment is when I’m free from my mind – free of the maladaptive coping skills I blogged about yesterday. Here is the link if you’d like to know more about what that means: Approaching 50 Years Old…… In an authentic moment, I am free of toxic guilt and…