Mental obsession and recovery Alcoholism is a three-fold disease, and recovery is a crucial part of overcoming it. This week at the freedom room, we have spoken about mental obsession. Even years after putting down the drink, we still have the mental obsession if we do not remain spiritually fit. I talked with a very […]
Friday, 9th March 2012, was just a typical day for me as it started. I had woken up after a night of heavy drinking feeling sick, shameful and fearful, so to get rid of that feeling, I did what I had been doing for some time to alleviate that feeling, I took another drink, I
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Happy St. Patricks Day. And for my fellow Irish man, “Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!” Coming from an Irish background, my father was Irish, and I married an Irish man in my early twenties. (I also divorced an Irish man in my early twenties, but that is a whole non-alcohol-related story) Once I had turned
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At 4.45 am this morning, the alarm went off, and I struggled out of bed while the rest of the house was still sleeping. Sobriety, has allowed me to wake up at this time, hangover free. As I opened the door to the cool 21 degrees, I could hear the birds singing and the bats
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We all know that as a society in the world we live in, we drink a lot. There’s always a reason to drink, always an occasion, always a Y in the day, and there are always people encouraging you to do so. When many of us think of an alcoholic, we see someone waking up
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