My Body, Myself, and Mayday — Learning to Reconnect After Alcohol and Self-Neglect
The Body I have treated my body as a thing — something that happens to travel through the world with me, rather than something I am. Sometim...
May 2024
Data Point, Not Relapse — How I'm Learning to Recover Without Shame
As I've mentioned before in this blog, a lot of my writing comes from the This Naked Mind course I'm doing. It's a year-long cou...
The ACT Technique — A Tool for Working Through Cravings and Alcohol Triggers
Taken from This Naked Mind "The ACT Technique is a process I’ve developed through many of my teachers (Dave Gray, Byron Katie, and man...
Changing your brains habits — Rewiring Automatic Drinking Patterns Through Awareness
Changing Your Brain’s Habits Rewiring Automatic Drinking Patterns Through Awareness We experience life through our senses. Alcohol will numb...
The little acts — Tracing Suppressed Emotions Back to the Root of Addiction
The little act that set us off. I think I have always been super sensitive to my own emotions. And not knowing how to talk about them, or in...
Language Matters — How Self-Talk Shapes Depression and the Future You Predict
I pay close attention to what people say and do — language plays a big part of my life. Not just spoken, but written, and spoken internally ...
Happy birthday to ME! — From Drinking-Fuelled Birthdays to a Sober Celebration
Well, it's my birthday today, and that is not a day I would normally enjoy. When I was little, I think I had so much anticipation that w...
What beliefs do you have about alcohol? — Unlearning Inherited Beliefs About Drinking
Since the question is what kind of beliefs do you have about alcohol, I am happy to say that this has changed greatly from what I believed b...
Deciding to make an open journal — The First Entry of a Public Mental Health Recovery Journal
This post is the start of an open journal about my mental health recovery. I'll write about myself, the people around me, what I'm t...
