by Gill Kenny | Sep 28, 2020 | Activists for the future, Addict, Addiction, Anxiety, Attention extraction economy, Connection to others, Mental health, Mental health awareness, Sobriety, Social media, Staying sober, Supporting young people
It’s the end of yet another school term, and we’ve taken off to spend a week at a friend’s beach house. There is something very calming about walking barefoot along the sandy shores as the waves gently wash away the worries we brought from the city. We hadn’t had a...
by Gill Kenny | Sep 21, 2020 | Addict, Addiction, Compassion, Connection to others, Cynicism, Negative mindset, Pain & vulnerability, Trust in relationships
It’s been fifty years since Joni Mitchell’s song ‘The Last Time I Saw Richard’ was released. I became a fan of hers in the 80s and regularly listened to her album Blue as I stared into the depths of my wine glass. The words ‘cynical & drunk’ became stuck in my...
by Gill Kenny | May 11, 2020 | Addict, Addiction, Alcohol & cancer, Anxiety, Attitude of gratitude, Benefits of sobriety, Compassion, Connection to others, Drinking, Empathy, Mental health, Mental health awareness, Negative mindset, Recovery, Self-love, Sobriety, Staying sober, Support groups
For as long as I was drinking to excess, I wondered what it would feel like to be completely sober for a whole year. I had done many the stint of abstinence and completed a couple of one-hundred-day challenges over the years, but it never felt as though l was giving...
by Gill Kenny | Feb 24, 2020 | Attitude of gratitude, Connection to others, Gratitude, Love
Gougane Barra, Co.Cork, Ireland It may have been ten days since the annual feast of St Valentine was celebrated, but I want to use this week’s blog to talk about love anyway. Love for me is this intense feeling of deep affection for the people in my life. There...
by Gill Kenny | Jan 20, 2020 | Bitching, Connection to others
Yesterday I overheard two teenagers having a bitch about someone they knew, and it occurred to me how damaging this kind of behaviour is. It’s not necessarily damaging for the person who is being bitched about because they will probably never know, and...
by Gill Kenny | Dec 16, 2019 | Addict, Addiction, Alcohol, Compassion, Connection to others, Freedom, Sobriety, Staying sober
When I was growing up in Ireland, we dreamed of a white Christmas and it came true every few years. If it didn’t snow, then we hoped it would be dry because the ice made for treacherous driving conditions. Bikinis and Santa hats It’s been a long time since...
