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And what I loved about your book is that you take people through each day, through day 3 through day 5, because there’s such a similar cadence for what we go through in different phases. I mean, day 5 is so hard for everyone, you know, day 16, somehow, it’s really difficult. And you didn’t even intend to document that. Right. It was just for yourself.
Well, and part of that what I love is when you go on those groups, when you go on like living sober. My favorite secret Facebook group is the booze free brigade. It’s, you know, when you say that it bothers you, in your book, that it bothers you that only one side of the picture is unveiled is visible, that it bothers you that you’ve created an environment for people that admit their truth, that, you know, alcohol is celebrated, as this, you know, great elixir for everything it is in those groups, that you see the other side and not just the problems, but also how much better and life is without alcohol and that alcohol isn’t required. And that is where you’re going to find the other side of the story and that you’re not alone. Dann has also written two books, Mrs D is Going Without and Mrs D is Going Within, both deeply personal and honest accounts of what it’s like to go from being a boozy housewife downing a bottle of wine a day to being completely alcohol-free. Each week, I’ll bring you tools, lessons and conversations to help you drink less and live more. I’ll teach you how to navigate our drinking obsessed culture without a bus, how to sit with your emotions, when you’re lonely or angry, frustrated or overwhelmed, how to self soothe without a drink, and how to turn the decision to stop drinking from your worst case scenario to the best decision of your life. One of my favorite things that you wrote in your day 3 post is, I’m going to try to do this without any outside support. And what I love is you said, the first time someone commented on your blog, it was like a light bulb went off, you didn’t actually do it without any outside support now.Yes. And I, yeah, yeah. I love that too. And also modeling that mommy doesn’t need to get drunk every night to cope with life.
Eventually I found it on the morning after my last-ever binge. A little glimmer of hope came to me through floods of tears when I had that monumental thought, The problem isn’t me. The problem is the alcohol. I seized on that glimmer of hope, used it to tap into the tiny amount of strength I had remaining, and made my decision to quit. It was utterly terrifying. Truly, deeply terrifying. But I held onto my little inner glimmer of hope, and boosted it with the vague notion I had that it was possible to become a happy non-drinker. This I’d gleaned from looking at the occasional famous person I knew had quit. As tragic as it sounds, I’d see former drinkers like Rob Lowe and Keith Urban on the red carpet on E! channel and notice they seemed really happy. I knew they’d both quit their nasty drinking habits, yet they seemed content, smiling like life without alcohol was okay. How they’d done it, I had no idea, but they showed me that it could be done. I thought, If they can do it, I can too. But she says there are also differences in the way alcohol affects woman and in how it is marketed to them. While women generally drink less than men and are also less likely to be hazardous drinkers than men, for various biological reasons. they are also more likely to be damaged by alcohol than men. Women’s generally lower body weights and higher proportion of body fat mean that, if a man and a woman drink the same amount, the woman’s blood alcohol will almost always be higher, putting her at greater risk of harm. It’s like Marketing, has to be massively curved. I do not think that liquor companies should be able to put out big glossy images of happy, healthy looking people drinking, because those images are powerful. And they just, they’re just telling lies about the reality for so many people. So, I think put curbs on Marketing big time. And so, the public health experts will tell you the 3 things that really change habits are, price availability and marketing. Now that I’m sober. I mean, I go to yoga retreats, and we sit around during sharing circles, and people play their guitar and we go on long walks and paddle boarding and skinny dipping. And I swear, I feel like I’m 16 again.
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Yeah, and that’s just who I am. I just feel okay about who I am. I just tried to not be that I tried to be fun, upbeat Lotta. All I ever wanted to be fun. Lalalalala let’s have fun. And that’s still there. But it’s balanced out now by that watery said part of me that sometimes just retreats and needs to kind of snuggle and be sad. Lotta’s personal memoir of drinking, quitting drinking and living alcohol-free in a drink-filled world is witty, funny, and uplifting. And the thing about sober treats is, it’s not so much the actual, physical, you know, item that you’re buying, although all of those things are lovely. It’s the act of doing it, and the message that you’re sending yourself as you’re doing it. You’re saying I deserve this. This is for me, because I’m looking after myself. It’s a little act of self care. Lotta wrote her second book Mrs. D Is Going Within– touching on mindfulness and the tools she uses to navigate life from an emotionally healthy place after putting down the wine bottle.
But as those first two glasses turned into another two and then a whole bottle, the feel-good factor was soon replaced by other, less pleasant feelings.What I’m trying to do with the book is to open people’s eyes to how ubiquitous alcohol has become and how it’s not harmless. There are two sets of readers. The first is people like me who are going to feel strengthened by feeling understood. I’m hoping there will also be another set of readers who are able to moderate their drinking but who will have their eyes opened and can see it’s a bit crazy that we’re living in this alcohol-saturated environment.” I’m actually naturally quite extroverted. So, I don’t have any social anxiety or trouble with small talk, I just don’t. And it is worth saying that for a lot of people, they do get sober and realize I’m actually quite an introverted person, I’m not comfortable in big groups, I find small talk difficult. I’m at my most happy when I’m either in one on one or very small groups or on my own. And that can also take a bit of adjustment, accepting who you are naturally. And so that’s not a bad thing that you don’t want to go to big parties, you know, and that you find them hellish. It’s part of that transitioning into your authentic self. And trust me, once you do that, and you accept who you are, even if it means you’re at home, more on your own with the comfy pants on watching TV, drinking tea and petting the cat. You’ll be happier.
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