Tag: alcohol

A Hundred Days with No Elephants

I’m on day 100. A hundred days without alcohol. When I set out, this milestone would have been super-duper proud enoughness.  Goal complete. So, I *could* resume drinking at this point…
But why would I *want* to?

The Grey Area of Alcohol Use

Alcohol in moderation. The most socially-accepted drug ever.

There is a true stigma associated with being an “alcoholic”, yet consuming alcohol under the vague external metrics of “moderation” is ultra-approved of… if not literally expected.

Seeing the Elephant

To really see your elephant, you gotta spend time looking. Objectively looking. Examine the elephant, and the rationalizations that keep it hidden.

Having a Party Without the Elephant

If continuing to consume alcohol when I try so hard to preserve my health is the elephant in my health room, then throwing a party and deciding *not* to drink must be my first party without that elephant hanging around.

Giving Up Yet One More Thing

Despite all my progress and improvements into lower levels of “successful moderation”, it was still to much. My body has continued to tell me so. But when you have already given up so many mainstream things, how do you give up another big one?

Exploring How Addictions “Serve” You

When you are trying to remove something from your life that you are addicted to, you have to reflect on when and why you do it. Often there are several reasons. I currently think for alcohol I have several: To Celebrate Society and all advertising has imprinted this so deeply into our programming that there…

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Face the Realities

When it comes to addictions, there seems to be no “moderation” that is also at peace.