sobriety
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I am in good hope to having reached a new state of sobriety and in this state studying my feeling of getting resistent to alcohol temptations: By New Year’s Eve, I realised that something severely interesting had happened to the way I was watching alcohol. When I attended the Holiday Party of my company or Read more
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Do I need new New year’s resolution or a renewal of good intentions? And (either way), how sincere are these intentions? I, for my part, have come to the conclusion this year that I do not need new resolutions, because to me it feels like restarting the same old sh*t all over again. It feels Read more
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An interesting aspect of addiction and depression or anxiety disorders has (at least from my point of view) a lot to do with your own initiative. What do I mean with that? In various blogposts, coaching contributions and podcasts, as well as as in my own work and my own addiction, there is one common Read more
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Do I sound melodramatic? Maybe. But that is how most of the time you’ll feel when in a remorseful state you can’t escape if you want to quit drinking but can’t muster the strength to escape the loop of triggers, cravings, giving in to cravings and then swearing to never drink again just to find Read more
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The urge to stop drinking had been implanted before. But as it is with bad habits or addictions, you promise yourself to stop drinking tomorrow, or dink less, or drink only on odd days, or whatever comes to your mind. What came across my mind recently was the question what caused what in the end. Read more
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Well. I would like to dive into something that has been on my mind ever since cutting back: Is the “happiness” that alcohol deals you, really happiness? And if not, what is, then? Well, cutting back or stopping to drink alcohol seems to be a double edged sword at first glance. At second glance, however, Read more
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After a couple of years, I felt it was time to get rid of the feeling of having no proper qualification (in teacher education, you were only deemed as “qualified” once you had both degrees of teacher education, at least if you want to work in a public school, and I wanted to get out Read more
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After nearly choking off my life motivation and sinking headlong into a deep depression, I finally made it to get rid of smoking cigarettes and abolishing dope, I mustered the strength to get my life as straight as possible: I declined a possible apprenticeship as a programmer and inscribed as a student again. I moved. Read more
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When I was about 16, there was a pub in the city I lived in, where you could get drinks so cheap even a teenager with his pocket money could get hammered that one day in the week without getting broke. The pub was called Eulenspiegel and you could get either half a liter of Read more
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I think it makes sense to work on three levels here: Firstly, there will be postings about my “drinking career” and secondly my “sobriety career” and then postings about aspects, situations, methods and thoughts that help me to get on in my sobriety career and to share worries, happy thoughts, daily snippets and stuff. Let’s Read more
The Clear Horizon 