THE BLOG
(Too Much Information Too Be Honest, TMI TBH)
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Why cant I stop drinking?
It is a question that has pained millions, including me.
These words are typed into a Google search, daily by people feeling broken, confused, and desperate for answers.
I am here to tell you, there is nothing wrong with you.
It's not you, it's...
A comment, I found to be incredibly condescending and offensive, was made on my Ditched the Drink Facebook page, by an acquaintance of mine.
The post was about me wearing my sobriety out loud.
The picture was me (literally) wearing the words SOBER AF on my shirt.
If you follow...
I used alcohol to turn off the noise in my head.
I had a very loud inner critic and anxiety about nearly everything.
I love the boozy, woozy, relaxed,
“everything will be ok”
feeling my first sips of wine gave me.
What a relief! From myself.
It honestly felt like...
We arrive in Cabo.
We walk off the plane, down the steps, into the Mexican earth.
The kids and I feel like we are getting off of Air Force One and wave to the mountains, as if it they are our adoring audience.
The process of getting into another country is stressful, even as a visitor.
...
My #1 question this week is, "How was your vacation?”
Thank you for your interest and curiosity!
Normally, I share all my comings and goings in real time on Instagram so my followers can literally follow right along with me. I haven't done that for this vacation, so it's no wonder people...
I am annoyed when people over explain their relationship with social media and here I am doing the same.
I think it’s arrogant to think anyone really cares, but it turns out they do.
And I do too.
I am a solopreneur building my coaching business and Instagram has been a wonderful...
I was driving home this morning from dropping my daughter off at her summer job, and I was thinking about our upcoming all inclusive family vacation.
It hit me that I hadn't thought about alcohol on this vacation yet and it is quickly approaching.
Alcohol was not a thought in planning it, booking...
I’m in my 4th year of sobriety.
It was painful to get out from under the grip of alcohol dependence.
Time and space from alcohol has changed me, my values, and my priorities.
I am a different person today, than I was on my last Day 1.
I continue to choose to live alcohol...
There was a moment this weekend where I picked up a glass of whiskey,
so I could wash the table underneath so we could play cards after dinner.
I put my nose in and smelled it.
It smelled so good!!!
It gave me a warm, boozy, fuzzy feeling just to sniff it.
I knew I would love the burn...
This weekend we will be on a lake.
Woo Hoo!
Welcome Summer!
I heard an interview by the band Old Dominion about their new song titled,
“I Was On A Boat That Day”.
It’s a super fun song and I love Old Dominion’s music.
They said they were drinking...
I had my first drink at 12 years old.
This was my toe dipped into the ocean of alcohol back in 1988.
I slammed a Busch Beer in my room alone.
Then I acted “crazy" with myself.
I journaled with sloppy handwriting, so I could prove to myself (and later my best friend),
how drunk...
A rarely advertised fact is that alcohol is the third preventable cause of death in the US.
That is not how it is marketed to women.
Alcohol is sold as “Mommy’s Helper”, or “Mommy’s Juice”.
It is advertised as a break for Mom.
It is sold as...
My first sober Cinco de Mayo was something to anticipate and get through.
Something to white knuckle and endure or tolerate.
Cince de Mayo was another milestone drinking holiday that I was about to do sober for the first time.
Similar to St. Patrick’s Day.
I always drank on...
It’s ok to start over.
I just have to share that.
Especially with drinking.
If you’ve tried to quit before and it didn’t work…
...it’s ok to start again.
If you changed your mind or had some success or had no success…
...
I started the week with a cycle class at my new gym.
It’s been a while since I took a spin class.
I was intimidated.
When I scheduled the class at the end of last week...
I wanted to start the week off with a bang.
I wanted to put myself first,
get a hard thing out of the way,
...
Sitting here on a Sunday morning, giving myself time and space to be.
To just sit, to rest, to check in, to create.
This weekend has been a lot of nothing, in the best way.
Reading, resting, carpooling my kids, and cheering them on at their games.
After being gone nearly a month, it...
When I look back on pictures, I can see clearly how alcohol is poison.
The bloat in my face is painful to see.
The bloat was my body's way of trying to protect me from my drinking habits.
As a drinker, it was just another reason for me to hate my ugly self.
I was ignoring myself, in...
I have written about my sober vacations before.
You can read my other vacation blogs here:
All Inclusive Beach Vacation Sober,
Beach Vacay from Blackouts to Making Memories.
Today, I want to share my most recent experience, Spring Break 2021 in Florida....
Spring Break, Man.
On my 21st birthday (also my golden birthday), I got a tattoo and headed to Panama City Beach for a week in the sun with my friends.
Finally legal to drink alcohol!
I watched frat boys drink so much that they dug a hole in the sand to puke in and then cover it up...
What do you do on the weekends when you are sober?
Isn’t it boring?
No.
It’s not.
It’s relaxing, productive, and fulfilling.
I had no idea how to spend my time when I first quit drinking.
I was antsy, irritated, and annoyed.
Alcohol had removed my ability to find...
I love St. Paddy’s Day!
Leprechauns and rainbows.
Parades and debauchery.
Irish music, Irish dancers, and Irish pubs.
Corned beef and cabbage.
Bagpipes.
I am all into the festivities.
I used to, of course, love green beer too.
I loved the excuse for...
When I first quit drinking I wanted everything in my life to stay exactly the same. The only difference would be that I was no longer drinking. I didn’t want anyone to know if I was drinking or not drinking, and I definitely didn’t want it to be the topic of conversation. I feared my...
So you’ve decided to give up alcohol for Lent.
Congratulations!
This is one of the healthiest things you can do.
Because you have chosen alcohol, I assume there may be some challenges in letting go of this vice. It is afterall representing a sacrifice.
Maybe you are...
The world is full of bad news involving alcohol.
In my feed from just today:
- A grandma in Wisconsin killed her granddaughter in a car accident at 8:30 in the morning with a .092 blood alcohol level from the night before.
- Britt Reid, son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid, had alcohol prior...
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