Morning AF special people! I can post this morning as my daughter has no school today and its Tooth Day!!!!
Named so because both me and daughter have to have our toothies checked today. Mine is the annual check and hers is orthodontics. I am blessed with good teeth - that I have taken fairly good care of and now that I have stopped washing them with poison - the gums are much healthier - less bleeding. probably thats to so with better diet.
Today is also 1 Feb - its 'Feb Free' when folk sign up to a pledge to be AB for one month. Thats great awareness although the cynic in me comes to life when reading of the 'celebs' (haha there are no celebs in NZ except Kuya and Treetops!!) being abstinent and hanging out for a pinot comes 1 March. But still thats this thread is called 'Monthly Abstinence' and I hope the Feb Free helps shift the AL problem for lots of "people like us".
Won't write War and Peace this morning but a couple of serious points. One is 'cross addiction' or 'cross abuse'. In my case its booze and bulimia (I reject the term addiction for bulimia - I think addiction can wrongly activate a desire to eliminate food - which is not very sustainable), Bulimia has been relegated to pre-menopausal days for me but very very occasionally whose wee feelings come back. That happened yesterday - I won't go into the details but to say that I stopped, thought it through and this time really thought about the dreadful 'hangover' you get from a bulimic binge - and how that could start a feeling of loss of control, physical and mental exhaustion, self disgust - and possibly the temptation to also drink...anyway dealt with that , I am fine. Bloody hell - at my age!
The other point that was coming from the threads (esp Cinders, Lavande, Kuya, YaH) - ws mothers and daughters (sorry guys - but this does include you too). Very intense stuff here. I was very very close to my Mum and although she died in 1996 I still feel teary. And still dealing with guilt of not being there for her when she needed me. She was very ill most of her life with heart/kidney stuff (nothing to do with AL), depression, deep sadness about her Mum and other stuff.
But I am also very very close to my daughter (you guessed!). I want to live to be an ancient Mum for her - and being sober greatly increases those chances.
There were very few posts yesterday (by my bedtime) - maybe that will change during the day. Where is Mick?? Are you OK mate?
I just can't do the joke thing like him.
OK - War and Peace finished - time to get ready for Tooth Day!
Have a great Friday AB Fab People.
Named so because both me and daughter have to have our toothies checked today. Mine is the annual check and hers is orthodontics. I am blessed with good teeth - that I have taken fairly good care of and now that I have stopped washing them with poison - the gums are much healthier - less bleeding. probably thats to so with better diet.
Today is also 1 Feb - its 'Feb Free' when folk sign up to a pledge to be AB for one month. Thats great awareness although the cynic in me comes to life when reading of the 'celebs' (haha there are no celebs in NZ except Kuya and Treetops!!) being abstinent and hanging out for a pinot comes 1 March. But still thats this thread is called 'Monthly Abstinence' and I hope the Feb Free helps shift the AL problem for lots of "people like us".
Won't write War and Peace this morning but a couple of serious points. One is 'cross addiction' or 'cross abuse'. In my case its booze and bulimia (I reject the term addiction for bulimia - I think addiction can wrongly activate a desire to eliminate food - which is not very sustainable), Bulimia has been relegated to pre-menopausal days for me but very very occasionally whose wee feelings come back. That happened yesterday - I won't go into the details but to say that I stopped, thought it through and this time really thought about the dreadful 'hangover' you get from a bulimic binge - and how that could start a feeling of loss of control, physical and mental exhaustion, self disgust - and possibly the temptation to also drink...anyway dealt with that , I am fine. Bloody hell - at my age!
The other point that was coming from the threads (esp Cinders, Lavande, Kuya, YaH) - ws mothers and daughters (sorry guys - but this does include you too). Very intense stuff here. I was very very close to my Mum and although she died in 1996 I still feel teary. And still dealing with guilt of not being there for her when she needed me. She was very ill most of her life with heart/kidney stuff (nothing to do with AL), depression, deep sadness about her Mum and other stuff.
But I am also very very close to my daughter (you guessed!). I want to live to be an ancient Mum for her - and being sober greatly increases those chances.
There were very few posts yesterday (by my bedtime) - maybe that will change during the day. Where is Mick?? Are you OK mate?
I just can't do the joke thing like him.
OK - War and Peace finished - time to get ready for Tooth Day!
Have a great Friday AB Fab People.
Hope you all get a little surprise to enjoy today 
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