Member-only story
Me, alcohol, and The Urge
And what it has to do with the concept of “buffering”
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 personal development strategist and coach working to help people with self-acceptance, self-trust, and self-compassion. You can learn more about working with me here.
Happy Sunday, friends. By the time you’re reading this, I’ll have gone about three weeks without alcohol (a dry February plus about a week head start) and I am HAVING SOME FEELINGS.
Me complaining to my Slack friends about THE URGE
Primarily, I notice so much more clearly what I’ve started to call THE URGE. The urge, that is, to disconnect. To suppress. To feel anything other than I’m feeling. The urge to distract. The urge to move to the future and away from the present.
You know. The Urge.
The urge I think for me has been most easily suppressed in the past by nail-biting, alcohol, caffeine, and turning to my phone, and without three of the four of those (my…
