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Flashback Soberistas blog from 13 months sober 400 days sober today! It feels really significant to me, I guess because I make a big deal of the 100 day milestones, and also because I stopped drinking two days after my 40th birthday so the number 4 feels important to my sobriety somehow. So, to mark the occasion, here are 40 things I do now, that I didn’t do when I thought my best friend was wine: 1. Wake up with no hangover, every single day….Continue Reading “400 days – 40 reasons my life is better” →

18 months sober today!! Feeling really good about that, but also reflective. At the start of this year I wrote a blog on Soberistas called Note to self, my plan for year 2. At the time I was thinking ahead about the things that might derail me on my sober path, that might lead me back to drinking. Now I’m 6 months into year 2 it doesn’t actually feel like that at all anymore. The things I’m working on now are not so much sober…Continue Reading “Actually 18 months – year 2 check in” →

Flashback Soberistas blog from 7 months sober This came up on my Facebook feed today and it made me think of us: I’ve seen some posts and blogs recently from people feeling a bit out of step with the world and so questioning if sobriety is right for them. I don’t think any of us are immune to that. Being sober in a world that normalises, and in fact, glamorises alcohol use isn’t easy. Sometimes I do feel exactly like a flamingo in the middle…Continue Reading “Sometimes it’s hard to be a flamingo” →

I know it’s a bit weird for the first post in a sobriety blog to be at 18 months but I’ve been blogging over on Soberistas and, until now, been feeling too scared to ‘go public’. But here I am – hi! I stopped drinking the day after my 40th birthday party (that was one hell of a hangover) on 19th February 2017. My life since then has been full of amazing surprises and now I basically want to share the sober love as much…Continue Reading “(Almost) 18 months sober – a few random things I’ve learned” →

Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton