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I’m a social media girl. I live and breathe Facebook and Instagram. I love celebrating my great life. It has changed immeasurably since going sober, it really has. I celebrate this every day. I mean this isn’t me having a celebratory cake every day (I need to pack that in) but when I open myContinue reading “Its OK to take a break 🙂”

What are you doing at 3am, I bet you aren’t lay awake riddled with anxiety after being blackout drunk full of regrets, but you dont know what for, because you have absolutely no idea what you did or said or when you actually went to bed. so you are sat scrolling through texts, twitter andContinue reading “3am”

On Monday we attended a ‘virtual’ drinks tasting session with Club Soda and Lucky Saint. Club soda went live and demonstrated the alcohol free drinks purchased from ‘the wise bartender‘ the packs for the event are not on the website, but many more bundles are available here: https://wisebartender.co.uk/wise-packs-12-c.asp Lucky Saint Lager 330ml – 0.5% Alcohol,Continue reading “Alcohol Free Drinks Review”

I’m going to say that for about 5 years I had drunk daily, a stupid amount of wine! I literally couldn’t wait for wine o’clock (this became earlier and earlier as time went on). My life was OK, but I honestly felt I was walking through treacle every single day, but i couldn’t see aContinue reading “600 Days!”

So at the beginning of May we should have travelled to the Isle of Wight to complete a 50km ultra-challenge in aid of Sarcoma UK. Me, Pete and my brother Mike were doing this for Sarcoma UK and my friend Sandra was doing it for a charity close to her heart. Obviously the pandemic hasContinue reading “Ultra-Challenge”

I know my blog is normally about sobriety and I’ve not blogged for ages, but wanted to do so today. I’ve been so busy in my role as a Procurement Manager for Northern Care Alliance – (Salford Royal NHS and Pennine Acute NHS Trust). I’m not on the front line, BUT we are business criticalContinue reading “How can you help our NHS colleagues?”

To all the very kind people who helped us to raise over £750 for Sarcoma UK a huge huge thank you ❤ I’m in bed utterly exhausted but very happy to yet again be surrounded by such lovely community spirited, generous people. I’m a very lucky girl! Couple of pictures from today 😘 Xx

It’s been a while since I blogged and it’s been absolutely crazy!! A few things I’ve been doing: Work, It’s crazy full stop, I say to Pete every day, wow work was dead manic today. I’ve said this every day for 2 years – so maybe this is my job, crazy manic madness! Run club,Continue reading “Craziness!”

I’ve said it before that writing this blog is a great way of working through my thoughts and feelings, a type of therapy. This type of working through feelings is still all new to me, I never dealt with the feelings before, I just drank to numb them and block them out. Almost 4 yearsContinue reading “My Dad…..”

So I’m always banging on about my shiny new life and rightly so. It’s pretty amazing and I wouldn’t change it for the world. ❤ However…I’m still normal …I still get stressed and over commit like I used to, only now I can cope with it so much better. I used to get stressed andContinue reading “Stress!”