by Gill Kenny | May 13, 2022 | Acceptance & Commitment, Addiction, Anxiety, Benefits of sobriety, Commitments, Compassion, Connection to others, Drinking, Empathy, Envy, Integrity, Mental health awareness, Negative mindset, Pain & vulnerability, Recovery, Shame, Sobriety, Staying sober, Unhealthy behaviours
It was on Mother’s Day 2019 when I decided I’d had enough. I was sick and tired of living my life under a cloud of guilt, regret, and fear. What was I guilty about? I felt guilty for not listening to that part of me that knew better. The part that had been trying for...
by Gill Kenny | Feb 22, 2021 | Calling it out, Drinking, Justice, Pain & vulnerability, Rape, Recovery, Risk taking, Shame, Supporting young people, Vulnerable girls, Women's Rights, Youth Drugs & Alcohol
This is the face of my 19-year-old self, free and innocent, at a party in Italy with a heart full of hope and excitement about the future. Just a few weeks after that photo was taken, I was raped. I have chosen to write publicly about this for the first time in 35...
by Gill Kenny | Feb 18, 2021 | Addiction, Attitude of gratitude, Benefits of sobriety, Connection to others, Digital addiction, Envy, Gratitude, Inferiority complex, Jealousy, Mental health, Negative mindset, Pain & vulnerability, Recovery, Social media
Those of you that know me will know that my favourite colour is green. I love the fact that there are 40 shades of it too, according to the song written by Johnny Cash during his 1959 trip to Ireland. The shade of green that is my focus today though is my least...
by Gill Kenny | Nov 13, 2020 | Addiction, Anxiety, Attitude of gratitude, Benefits of sobriety, Connection to others, Imprisonment, Mental health, Negative mindset, Pain & vulnerability, Recovery, Sobriety, Staying sober, Support groups
I remember a particular experience I had a couple of years ago at the end of a yoga class when we were lying down in Savasana pose. Out of nowhere, I felt tears rolling down my face, dropping onto the floor beneath my head, while a heavy sense of foreboding took hold...
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...
