by Jolene | Dec 12, 2018 | Brain Chemistry
When I made the decision to stop for good. I knew I was done forever. I knew I was done because I had so many stops and starts prior to that. I knew that no matter what happened in the future (good or bad) alcohol was no longer an option and I haven’t had a...
by Jolene | Dec 12, 2018 | Mindfulness
1. There are really cool people (celebrities, people I meet every day) who don’t drink. 2. Most people don’t care or notice whether you drink alcohol or not. Don’t assume the worst before going into an interaction or an event. Some people will...
by Jolene | Dec 12, 2018 | Mindfulness
This is what one of my favorite yoga teachers and somatic coaches says to me often. “Can you stay with yourself here?” – Jay Fields. Notice what you feel – anxiety, sadness, anger, pain, hurt, excitement, joy, pleasure, whatever…Can you...
by Jolene | Dec 12, 2018 | Brain Chemistry
When I quit drinking there were times — weeks, months after my decision to quit for good that I’d think, “I’d love to find something that gives me that same feeling I used to get 20 minutes into the first glass of wine.” I loved what wine did...
by Jolene | Dec 12, 2018 | Mindfulness
There’s a collective drinking and anxiety story that is happening all around us. I call it gray area drinking and I used to be a gray area drinker. I wasn’t an end-stage, lose everything kind of drinker, I also wasn’t an every now and again drinker...
