Blog Posts From 1000 Days Sober
If you’re considering making a significant change in your life, like altering your re...
Mar 24, 2022
Read MoreYvonne is addicted to alcohol. Her relationship with her husband, Pete, is dead. There is no ...
Feb 10, 2022
Read More"Men often manipulated their women through physical and financial dominance and threat. Women oft...
Feb 07, 2022
Read MoreHave you ever heard of an Upper Limit Problem (ULP)? If not, check out my interview wit...
Feb 04, 2022
Read MoreI'm in pain. I'm suffering. A storm of locusts magnifies both because nobody else underst...
Feb 03, 2022
Read MoreWhen I became someone that doesn’t drink alcohol more than a decade ago, everything changed...
Feb 02, 2022
Read MoreAt STRIVE, we pride ourselves on being the place that unites people who no longer drink alcohol a...
Feb 01, 2022
Read MoreLast night, during an event called ‘The Illuminated Man’, the host asked the guest sp...
Jan 31, 2022
Read MoreI became someone that doesn’t drink alcohol after reading The Easyway to Control Alcohol by...
Jan 30, 2022
Read MoreWhen I woke up, the first person I thought of was my Mum. It’s my birthday, and it&rs...
Jan 29, 2022
Read MoreThe processing of shame is one of the primary reasons we don’t see more people join...
Jan 28, 2022
Read MoreI want my children to be honest, authentic, and grateful. I want them to support themselv...
Dec 10, 2021
Read MoreWho Else Wants to be Sad, Angry and a Tad Depressed? I saw this poster while having a wh...
Dec 09, 2021
Read MoreAlcohol Helps Me Sleep…Does It? Many of my clients believe alcohol helps them sleep. S...
Dec 03, 2021
Read MoreLong term relationships merge nervous systems. When your partner feels something, you feel it.&nb...
Dec 02, 2021
Read MoreI was reading Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel last night and wanted to share my thoughts/Esth...
Nov 30, 2021
Read MoreWhen my first wife asked for a divorce, a barrage of emotions hit me like a passenger seat airbag...
Nov 24, 2021
Read MoreThe Fulcrum The symphony strings tug at my heart when I see a STRIVER stopping the work once ...
Nov 22, 2021
Read MoreThe Profound Mirror In my review of my recent dental appointment, I was going to complai...
Oct 28, 2021
Read MoreTo The Person Who Can’t Seem to Get Started On the eve of becoming someone t...
Oct 14, 2021
Read MoreThe STRIVE Method aims to help you find the power and unused resources WITHIN YOU because once yo...
Oct 06, 2021
Read MoreSarcasm My queen is full of shrapnel. We are slowly removing them, shard by shard, ...
Sep 01, 2021
Read MoreIt only cost $50. My wife, Liza, asked me to join her. It was another...
May 21, 2021
Read MoreI have this client. Let's called him Julian. Julian recently celebrated...
May 20, 2021
Read MoreDid you know that there is a VD clinic in Ayia Napa? Luckily there is, and even luckier,...
May 18, 2021
Read MoreI like New Order, who doesn’t right? I love 'Blue Monday'. But it...
May 18, 2021
Read MoreMy daughter Zia’s skipping along the pavement, looking every inch the perfect Dorothy Gale ...
May 04, 2021
Read MoreThomas asks, “What will I do when I lose my friends once I stop drinking alcohol?&r...
Apr 26, 2021
Read MoreAs a drinker, I had limited self-awareness. If the reverse were true, I would not have been a d...
Apr 21, 2021
Read MoreAt times during the end of my railway career, I felt like a leper. When I walked into a room, p...
Apr 20, 2021
Read MoreYou wake up in the morning feeling unmotivated. Something's not quite right. You have che...
Apr 06, 2021
Read MoreDuring our darkest times, we struggle to find meaning in our existence. And every day, we...
Apr 05, 2021
Read MoreLook at yourself in the mirror. Reflect on your image. What do you see? Do...
Apr 01, 2021
Read MoreChasing rainbows and unicorns is a child’s dream. You know unicorns are pretty des...
Mar 31, 2021
Read More“Diamonds are made under pressure,” says Caroline Buchanan. And you’ve probab...
Mar 30, 2021
Read MoreNow that you’ve courageously accepted perfectionism as a hindrance to your progression, i...
Mar 23, 2021
Read MoreWe all have to be drunk in something to get us going in life--be it alcohol, gambling, work, th...
Mar 23, 2021
Read MoreIt started like this: you had the idea of being detached from the habit you are genuinely aware...
Mar 23, 2021
Read MoreSometimes, even if you attempt to change, there will always be that immense feeling of relievin...
Mar 23, 2021
Read MoreYou just want control of yourself again, and having this little conversation with yourself isn&...
Mar 23, 2021
Read MoreSometimes, even if you try to genuinely change, there will always be that immense feeling of re...
Mar 16, 2021
Read MoreSelfish How different would life be if we took the view that everyone came out of the womb des...
Mar 11, 2021
Read MoreIt's my turn to take Zia to bed, and as is standard, she wants her Mum. Immediately, she trigg...
Mar 10, 2021
Read MoreThomas feels like an outsider in his family home. The children don't bother him, and hi...
Mar 09, 2021
Read More“Who Am I?” In creating his psychosocial integration theory, psychologist,...
Mar 08, 2021
Read MoreI recently joined an online course and had to introduce myself. I told the group I helpe...
Mar 05, 2021
Read MoreYou can inhale the perfume of a red rose, or you can burn it. Life’s what you make it. ...
Mar 05, 2021
Read MoreJohann Hari told Sam Harris that Gallup revealed approx. 80% of Americans didn’t like t...
Mar 04, 2021
Read MoreI have never baked a cake. Baking a cake = hard work. I don’t eat cake these ...
Mar 01, 2021
Read MoreLaurie is a 1000 Days Sober coach.I remember she once posted this in the forum. "Here in thi...
Feb 28, 2021
Read MoreAnother fantastic poem by Rupi Kaur in her collection The Sun and Her Flowers."This place mak...
Feb 04, 2021
Read MoreConnor has a hole in his heart. It hasn’t stopped him turning into a c...
Feb 03, 2021
Read MoreMy sweaty back itches against the roughed up wood of the garage door. The sun is tickling m...
Feb 02, 2021
Read MoreAs I listen to Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles, I crack my knuckles, romanticise about...
Feb 01, 2021
Read MoreI have ‘stuff’ in a lock-up in Cardiff. It could go the way of Notre Dame...
Jan 10, 2021
Read MoreI heard the sound of running water gushing from the tap behind me. I shook my...
Jan 10, 2021
Read MoreThe day I led Jude through Skid Row was not an auspicious moment. I heard his mother screaming ...
Jan 10, 2021
Read MoreHow could I forget to brush my teeth? I'm 45. I think? Maybe that...
Jan 06, 2021
Read MoreThere’s an air of desperation when it comes to mulling over a period before tak...
Jan 01, 2021
Read MoreA woman with three children stands at the edge of the kerb. The light is red. For a s...
Dec 20, 2020
Read More“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man s...
Dec 11, 2020
Read MoreThere's a scene in the 'Queen's Gambit,' where Beth and her stepmother, Alma, are in a hotel ro...
Dec 01, 2020
Read MoreI played football on Sunday mornings and then went to the pub to drink all day, before stumblin...
Oct 13, 2020
Read MoreThe STRIVE Method: Failure Over the next few months, you will receive a series of articles sha...
Oct 12, 2020
Read MoreThe STRIVE Method: Harry The Hummingbird Over the next few months, you will receive a series o...
Oct 05, 2020
Read MoreI planned to spend time with my cousin on Friday night; then on Saturday, he would drive me into ...
Sep 23, 2020
Read MoreGame of Thrones fans will remember Ser Jorah Mormont picking up a greyscale infection...
Sep 08, 2020
Read MoreThe universe is vast, and somewhere, deep inside, you’ll find a Dry Martini with a Tw...
Sep 02, 2020
Read MoreIn 1946, E. M. Jellinik, the man credited with naming Alcoholism as a disease, ...
Sep 02, 2020
Read MoreTwo people, working for the same company, lose their job on the same day. It’s an u...
Aug 14, 2020
Read MoreI’m on the phone to Jude telling him that my life is shifting in ways that I can’t ...
Aug 11, 2020
Read MoreNeil Gaiman’s Masterclass on creative writing is brilliant, and one of the thin...
Jul 27, 2020
Read More"Let alcohol in, and often, procrastination follows. If you want to shut the door, then l...
Jul 22, 2020
Read MoreI sit on the tube imagining a bomb exploding. Reaper-like flames claw at my Zia. A fingerna...
Jul 16, 2020
Read MoreI’m in the lift in the ARIA Resort in Las Vegas. Two guys join me, both dr...
Jul 12, 2020
Read MoreNickel is a ceramic pig. Zia dropped him a few times (not the smartest gift for a 3-ye...
Jul 12, 2020
Read MoreI get it. Lowering your expectations is a cracking way to mitigate the failure fall.&n...
Jul 07, 2020
Read MoreI used to love visiting restaurants. Today, it's excruciating. I catch myself forcing my ...
Jul 05, 2020
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