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Dealing with drinking in these times
This article is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a newsletter about clarity, intention, and useful tips for creating more meaning in your life that goes out every Sunday morning. Subscribe here. I am also a coach who teaches you mindfulness and thoughtful self-reflection so you can stop second-guessing yourself, make decisions confidently and live the life you’ve always dreamed of. You can learn more about working with me here.
Back in simpler times — aka on March 1 — I wrote a newsletter about my reflections on taking a 30-day break from booze. This is what I mused about at the time:
I learned a lot of things about myself and my relationship to booze during these short 33 or so days: When I’m alone, the urge to drink is usually to distract me from something — primarily loneliness or boredom. When I’m with others, the urge to drink comes from a sense to connect more deeply, or conditioning from the atmosphere, if we’re in a bar, restaurant or at a dinner party. Not drinking has made my anxiety MUCH better, but also made my emotions MUCH more all over the place — since the alcohol was being used as a tool to suppress emotions, that makes sense that they might come strongly to the forefront after a month of no booze. It’s really easy to ask for non-alcoholic drinks wherever you are. I got went to bars and got mocktails; I went to…
