by jokomom | Feb 23, 2022 | Sobriety, Thoughts
Celebrating 10 days seems totally-completely-embarassingly lame. But I am celebrating. If we celebrate every teeny tiny win it will keep this next year positive instead of what it has felt like before: impossibly hard. This last weekend was very hard. I’m...
by jokomom | Feb 14, 2022 | Sobriety, Thoughts
We have been here before, but something feels different. It’s been just Another Day 1 time after time since I started asking the question out loud: Am I Drinking Too Much? This Post for example, was a day where I considered the journey that had brought me here,...
by jokomom | Oct 4, 2021 | Hard Days, Joy, Parenting, Sobriety, Thoughts
The canned response to the many-times-repeated-daily question: how are you? Everyone has their own version: good, fine, bien. Lately, I have started a delightful practice of asking for clarification before answering that question: do you want the real answer, or the...
by jokomom | Jun 18, 2021 | Joy, Sobriety
Today I woke up, after a glorious 9 hours of sleep and felt for the first time, in a long time … rested. I got up at 4:45am because I wanted to, and because I had been in bed sleeping since a little after 7pm, and could acknowledge nothing more could be done in...
by jokomom | May 7, 2021 | Hard Days, Sobriety
No one wants to find out, I’m fairly certain of that. Most people’s rock bottoms involve losing something: a wife, a husband, a sibling, a child, respect. We all know the main feature, no matter what you’ve lost, is shame. Shame is such a powerful...
by jokomom | Feb 24, 2021 | Sobriety
I didn’t realize I had a drinking problem, until I tried to stop. My precarious relationship with wine began later than some, having been raised in a house where alcohol was largely absent. My mother’s father had a known problem. We all heard the stories,...
