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A Significant Observation From My Teenager

December 29, 2019 by not your average mom 3 Comments

It has been almost two and a half years since I stopped drinking. I stopped for a bunch of reasons. My body was no longer tolerating it. To be honest, my body never really tolerated alcohol well to begin with. But I was forgetting things and portions of my night after just a couple drinks. […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: alcohol, drug free living, drug free parenting, sober living, sobriety

I Want A Crew Of Non-Drinking Mom Friends

July 9, 2018 by not your average mom 30 Comments

It’s been 53 weeks since I quit drinking. Since it was my one year anniversary last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about this past year. About how I came to the decision to stop. About what has been difficult. About what wasn’t that difficult. About what I miss. And about what I don’t miss. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: alcohol and moms, moms who don't drink, sober moms, sobriety, wine memes

31,536,000 Seconds

July 2, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

It’s been 31,536,000 seconds. It’s been 525,600 minutes. It’s been 8,760 hours. It’s been 365 days. It’s been 52 weeks. And it’s been 1 whole year since I’ve had a drink. No alcohol for a year. NO ALCOHOL FOR A YEAR!!!! No Blue Moons, no Kirkland margaritas, no Franzia, and no fruity drinks in a […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: how to quit drinking, quitting drinking, sober life, sobriety

TEN MONTHS

May 4, 2018 by not your average mom 2 Comments

You know what Wednesday was? It was ten months with no alcohol. TEN MONTHS. TEN MONTHS!!!!!! That’s a big deal for me. But what is even more of a big deal than no booze for over three hundred days is what I realized the day before. It was a pretty big a-ha moment for me. […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: alcohol, booze, friends, friendships, mental health, mom friends, sobriety

Out Of The Fog

February 2, 2018 by not your average mom 6 Comments

The day before yesterday, I shared on Facebook that I’m struggling with a bout of depression. It’s largely situational, and I know what has brought it on. Marital and financial struggles continue to challenge me, and so I’ve kind of been riding the depression fence. It wasn’t going to take much to cause me to […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: depression, facebook, Grace and Frankie, hysterectomy, sober, sobriety

Five Months

December 2, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

I haven’t had any booze in five months. FIVE MONTHS. I’ve made it through the 4th of July and Labor Day and my birthday and my anniversary and Halloween and Thanksgiving. I’ve made it through other things, but that’s because I’ve just chosen not to attend them. Tonight all my favorite baseball moms are having […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: baseball, hangover, Moms' Night Out, regrets, sober, sobriety, wine

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