by Gill Kenny | Jul 6, 2020 | Addict, Addiction, Drinking, Mental health, Mental health awareness, Sobriety, Staying sober
What word links a pandemic and an alcoholic drink? Corona! And what do they have in common apart from a word? They can both do hardly any damage at all to us, or they can kill us. While the virus continues to wreak havoc on lives across the world, pubs are re-opening...
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 | Apr 13, 2020 | Addict, Addiction, Caving in, Drinking, Sobriety, Staying sober
Vulnerable kitten in Bangkok If you’ve been following my story these past months, the title of this week’s blog might have you worried. Today marks eleven months since the first day of my journey into sobriety (May 13th 2019) and it has been a little bit of a...
by Gill Kenny | Mar 23, 2020 | Attitude of gratitude, Gratitude, Smiling, Sobriety, Staying sober
Whole heart What a truly weird time this is. And to think that everyone across the globe is saying the same thing, makes it feel as though our planet has been rocked. There is so much changing right now, all that remains constant is the rising and setting of the sun....
by Gill Kenny | Feb 3, 2020 | Addict, Addiction, Alcohol, Compassion, Sobriety, Staying sober
Triskelion: an old Irish Symbol representing the connection between Body, Mind and Spirit Life is full of ups and downs. I got over my recent downer and, like my injured dog, George, who has since been healed, I bounced back into life. So much so that I feel more...
by Gill Kenny | Jan 13, 2020 | Addict, Addiction, Alcohol, Anxiety, Compassion, Sobriety, Staying sober
Dunguaire Castle, Galway Bay, Ireland Last week I wrote about finding my truth and how it is now guiding me to live a life better than before. This week, I would like to share some of that truth with you. Today marks eight months since I began my journey into...
