Social Drinking – When Does It Become Problem Drinking?
Are you wondering if you’re a social drinker or if your relationship with alcohol might be veering into ‘problem territory’, so to speak? Have you ever just thought that you get along well with drinking, but have read all of the guidelines around drinking and think...
Embrace The Alcohol-Free Lifestyle
Embrace The Alcohol-Free Lifestyle Alcohol has long been a big player in many social gathering and event in current times. It is often seen as a way to unwind, relax, and have a good time. However, there is a growing movement towards embracing an alcohol-free...
The 3 Stages Of Alcoholism
The 3 Stages Of Alcoholism Contents We hear the term alcoholic and alcoholism banded around quite a lot in society. Whether there is a moral discussion around the term or not, let’s leave that for another day. For now, we must accept what...
Free Sobriety Planner
Free Sobriety Planner 🚀 Welcome to Your Alcohol-Free Adventure with “The Alcohol Off Switch” Sobriety Planner! 🎉 You are now on the path to a healthier, Well done you!! If you’ve found your way here, you’re already on your way to smashing this...
Drinking In The Morning? Be Aware Of These 10 Risks.
Drinking In The Morning? 10 Risks To Be Aware Of! ContentsDrinking In The Morning? 10 Risks To Be Aware Of!1. Impaired Cognitive Function2. Disrupted Sleep Patterns3. Negative Impact on Mood4. Risk of Dependence5. Liver Strain6. Social Isolation7. Legal Consequences...
A Clean And Sober Detox – The Perfect Gift For You And Those Around You
The Benefits of a clean and sober detox What is a detox, and why should you consider one? Great question! The benefits of a detox are just so many, for both you and those around you. And here is why! Table of Contents A detox – or detoxification to use...
Alcohol Sweats – Night Sweats from Alcohol Use – A Discussion
Night Sweats From Alcohol Withdrawal – Riding The Wave Recognise the scene? – soaking bed sheets, waking up shivering, night sweats after a night of drinking? I am sure many, many of us have been there before or are currently experiencing night sweats. But...
White Knuckling & Sobriety: What To Expect
White Knuckling in Sobriety “I’m going to do it. I know it will be though, but I will just white knuckle through it’ Said by many Ride the storm, battle through it – with sobriety being the mantra throughout. When discussing the challenges of...
Can Alcoholics Drink In Moderation?
Can An Alcoholic Ever Drink in Moderation? A Comprehensive Look Drinking alcohol is in every aspect of social interactions and celebrations, but for those who have struggled with a drinking problem, the idea of moderation can be a challenging one. In this post, we...
Does One Drink Break Sobriety? Or ‘Simply’ A Slip-Up?
Does One Drink Break Sobriety? Or Is It ‘Simply’ A Slip-Up? The big question – Does One Drink Break Sobriety? By having one slip, have you broke sobriety and are now back to day one? Let’s look at what we are working with, and see if we can...
One Year Sober – A Milestone Indeed.
One Year Sober – A Milestone Indeed. If you are reading this and have hit this milestone then what a fantastic achievement, and what a gift you have given to yourself. But, you don’t need me or anyone else to tell you that. This story is my own, a...
Gaining Weight After Quitting Alcohol: Understanding the Connection
Gaining Weight After Quitting Alcohol Understanding the Connection We hear all of this talk about how people lose weight and look fantastic after ditching the booze. We hear this a LOT! So why are some of us GAINING weight? After all, we have instantly cut out...
Signs Your Liver Is Healing From Alcohol
Signs Your Liver Is Healing From Alcohol Alcohol abuse and liver damage go hand in hand really. I mean, what do we expect if we are throwing countless amounts of strong poison into our bodies for our livers to process? At some point it is going to hit home, same as if...Can You Drink Rubbing Alcohol
Can You Drink Rubbing Alcohol Disclaimer – this topic is something that comes up from time to time on our social medias – so we thought we owed it to write a bit about rubbing alcohol, what it is and answer the question ‘can you drink rubbing...
100 DAYS SOBER – WHAT TO EXPECT
100 DAYS SOBER – WHAT TO EXPECT Along the way on your sober journey, you will hit landmarks. The first day, the first week, one month sober….and 100 days sober. The 100-day sober mark is a very special one indeed. Why? Because at 100 days you have truly...
Living With A Functioning Alcoholic
Living With A Functioning Alcoholic The life of an alcoholic is really not a fun one at all. The drink takes your life and everything you have. But not only does alcohol take your life, it often takes the lives of the ones around you. Living with an alcoholic is...
Scratching your head wondering how to stop drinking so much?
Scratching your head wondering how to stop drinking so much? Try one of these tried and trusted techniques to reduce your overall alcohol intake. Knowing when it’s time to cut back on your alcohol intake is an important step in managing your drinking. If...
Climbing out of depression after quitting drinking alcohol
Climbing out of depression after quitting drinking alcohol Depression and low mood are very much connected with drinking alcohol. After all, alcohol is a strong potion that directly attacks your thought processes. So it would only be right to expect someone’s...
8 Tell-Tale Signs That You Might Be Drinking Too Much
8 Tell-Tale Signs That You Might Be Drinking Too Much You are surrounded by people drinking, and you are fully immersed in it all, the buzz continues and the drink continues to flow. Do you find yourself powerless to say no to that next drink, when all around you are...
Sobriety Symbols To Celebrate Your Sober Journey
Sobriety Symbols To Celebrate Your Sober Journey The journey of sobriety means so many different things to so many people. My own journey has been one of honest amazement, on what I had been missing out on, and one that many also experience. What we do, who we are and...
What Help To Stop Drinking Alcohol Is Really Out There
What Help To Stop Drinking Alcohol Is Really Out There Turning a point in your life where you know that you need help to stop drinking, to get rid of the booze once and for all. You have decided to take charge and get your life back. But what ‘help’ is...Quitting Alcohol For A Month
What are the benefits of giving up alcohol for a month? The True benefits of giving up alcohol for a month – quit alcohol motivation! The benefits of giving up alcohol for a month are many. Alcohol is a depressant and can cause problems with sleep, energy...
Great Reasons Not To Drink Alcohol
A Shiny List Of Great Reasons Not To Drink Alcohol Get sober with 20 reasons to stop drinking Like we need to spell it out! Seriously, if you are reading this on the Alcohol Off Switch, then one thing that we bang our drums about are all the great reasons not to drink...
How To Stop Binge Drinking
Binge Drinking And How To Stop It Bingeing is bad for you – so ‘they’ say. It is banded around that binge drinking can often be worse for you than drinking regularly and hard with it! “Turns out, binge drinking one night a week is much...
What happens when you quit alcohol for 30 days?
What could happen when you quit alcohol for 30 days? 30 Days Without Alcohol – does that sounds ok with you? As people start to realise the benefits of quitting alcohol or even taking a break for a while – we have seen global interest and amazing movements...
Falling Off The Wagon – Explained
Falling Off The Wagon – Explained Relapse happens. Before we find our own alcohol off switch, there is a good chance that we have tried to quit alcohol before, and have experienced ‘falling off the wagon’ numerous times. This is (sadly) the nature of...
6 of the best sober apps to help quit alcohol
Some people love tech, and some people simply hate it. Horses for courses. But regardless of personal preferences, there is no argument that apps for support with quitting alcohol are showing some great success. Apps that can count how long you have been sober, set...
Stop The Urge To Drink Alcohol – Once And For All
Stop The Urge To Drink Alcohol – Once And For All This is a milestone that is simply a magnificent one. The moment that you no longer have the urge to drink!! Anyone who has tried to end drinking alcohol before, well we have all faced these moments when the...
60 Days Sober!!
Sixty days sober! OK, it was only a few days since I last blogged about being 8 weeks sober. But, 60 days sober just sounds like a milestone that needs to be written about. Plus, the app that I use recognises it as a milestone – so am sticking with it and...
8 Weeks without alcohol!
8 weeks without alcohol in my system. 2 calendar months. As I write this, I cannot actually believe that I am writing this. As I sit here thinking about that number – 8 weeks without alcohol – I am trying to let it sink in. I am pretty sure now that this...
Week 7 Without Alcohol
After journalling my personal experience with battling off the booze, I decided to recap on what I felt were massive milestones. These were the documents along my own sober timeline. We have a web page here about the whole alcohol timeline and what you might...
Week 6 without alcohol
Once again, I am sat here and writing about my journey so far. I really feel that this time is different than other times, but always have in the back of my mind that I could bail on myself at any time. That probably sounds quite negative, but I am being realistic....
Binge Drinking – And How To Stop This Destructive Behaviour
What is binge drinking Binge drinking is used to describe a certain pattern to a person’s drinking habits or behavours. To binge drink is to put excessive amounts of alcohol through our bodies, often at a ruthless rate in a short period of time. Binge...
Five weeks without alcohol
This blog post was written in 2019 when I finally made the journey through to 5 weeks without alcohol, for the final time. The post itself was written a few times but after falling off the horse a few times, I deleted the content and started again. I wanted to portray...
Four weeks without alcohol
This blog post has been revised from when I documented my own journey to quit alcohol, adding in some resources, links and tips that I (now!) know would be really helpful for anyone on their 4-week point of sobriety. The four-week point is quite a milestone in your...
Three Weeks Sober
21 days – three weeks sober. Three glorious weeks without a drop of booze – or cigarettes! I am still very wary that this is early days, and still treating myself with kid gloves. I cannot believe that I have made it to 3 weeks without alcohol! I on my...
Blacking Out From Drinking – What Happened there?
Blacking Out From Drinking – Did I Just Blackout?? After 2 decades of drinking, I tended to accept certain aspects of my life as ‘that is just the way it is’. Blacking out from drinking was one of them. I do not mean falling asleep or...Two Weeks Sober -2 Weeks Baby!!
Here I am now into my second week sober without drinking, TWO WEEKS SOBER!! Not only that but now free from alcohol AND cigarettes. Yes, I have decided to do them both head-on, together. So, how am I finding it so far? Body and physical health I am feeling slightly...
The Bloated Stomach Alcohol Creates. Let’s Talk Tummies!
In general, your stomach can be bloated for many reasons, but when the reason for that feeling in your belly is down to excessive drinking of alcohol then it can be more challenging to manage. For most long-term alcohol users, having a bloated stomach alcohol-created...
What To Do Instead Of Drinking – 11 Ideas To Inspire You
When you have decided that alcohol should no longer be a part of your life, you will inevitebly find more time on your hands. But what will you do with this spare time? The answer – so much! There is a whole life out there without alcohol, it is now just a case...
10 Signs That You May Really Have A Drinking Problem
Do I really have a drinking problem? 10 Signs Of A Drinking Problem There are some signs that may indicate if you have a problem with drinking. Here we have introduced the top ten signs to help guide you if you feel that you have a drinking problem, and how to address...
The First Week Without Alcohol. Day 1-7.
My first 7 days without alcohol One day without alcohol So it is now day 1 of not drinking. This time it is for keeps. Here is my journal for my first week without alcohol. I’ve just woken up at 6 in the morning. I set my alarm for this early because I wanted to...
So, I Read About Alcohol Withdrawal Stories…
What to expect when you quit alcohol. You are thinking of finally kicking the booze out of your life, but you are concerned about what to expect. You have read about alcohol withdrawal stories, heard so many things about the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal but are...
Write A Goodbye Letter To Alcohol – A Strong Tool For Sobriety
“The act of writing itself is like an act of love. There is contact. There is exchange too. We no longer know whether the words come out of the ink onto the page, or whether they emerge from the page itself where they were sleeping, the ink merely giving them colour.”...
What is Pink Cloud syndrome In Sobriety?
What is Pink Could Syndrome In Sobriety? Contents A Closer Look at The Pink Clouding Effect The term pink cloud or pink clouding is often a stage that people go through when they break through an addiction. And it is far from unique to alcohol. When we are drinking...
Once I Start Drinking I Can’t Stop – Finding My Personal Truth
The title of this blog ‘ once I start drinking, I can’t stop’ is something that is relatable to many – after all, this was my biggest (and maybe yours too) problem with drinking in general. As a youth, I used to go the pub with my friends and most of them could have...
What if being sober sucks?
Table of Contents You go through all that quitting and getting sober. And it ain’t all that??!! As we are looking for ways to become sober and we mingle with people who are going through their sober journey, there is always talk about how awesome it is to be...
The Benefits Of Being Teetotal and Teetotalism
All About The Benefits of Being Teetotal – How Awesome Is Sobriety?! Reading this? Then you are on a journey to ridding your life of alcohol, and the superb benefits that come with the teetotaler lifestyle. The more we see of society, the more we seem to be...
Drinking A Bottle Of Wine A Day – Is It Cause For Concern?
Lots of people drink alcohol, and lots opt for wine as their choice of poison (literally!). From a drinking a glass or two, to drinking a bottle of wine a day is not really a massive leap in terms of alcohol intake. Kinda creeps up on you. Ooh, it’s wine o’clock’ or...
Alcohol-Bloated Face? A Common Side Effect Of Drinking.
Alcohol does serious damage to your health, both mental and physical – there is no question about that. A quick Google search, or indeed a look around this very website will tell you of the damage that alcohol does to your body and mind. Here, we are going to...
Solid Steps to Stop Drinking Alcohol
Alcohol is a dangerous drug and can consume an individual’s life – fact. Finding the right steps to stop drinking alcohol, the right guidance and path, can be crucial in the recovery process. Table of Contents You have decided to make the journey to quit,...
Stuck For Ideas Of What To Drink Instead Of Alcohol? Read On…
Friday night drinks, sunday afternoon with your family and friends, daytime pub meetups – these may be part of your life and something that you do not want to leave behind when going alcohol-free. And you do not need to! You don’t have to sacrifice your...
Some Great Tips To Cut Down On Alcohol
Are you concerned about your levels of drinking and want to cut down on alcohol? Maybe you are not quite ready to consider a total alcohol-free lifestyle, but you but you are looking for tips to cut down on alcohol? Alcohol is all around us, in bars and restaurants,...
What Are Alcohol Cravings – And How To Stop Them
Alcohol cravings are pretty much what they say on the tin. You crave for a driink. you don’t want a drink’ you feel the overwhelming urge to have a drink. Crave – to have a very strong feeling of wanting something: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/...
8 Best Movies About Alcoholism – Our Choice
8 Best Movies About Alcoholism – Our Choice When discussing most topics in life, often movies just ‘hit home’ better. And films about alcoholism can have the same impact. If you have ever watched a scene of a man/woman hitting the...
Suffering from back pain after drinking alcohol?
Do you wake up the morning after with not just a hangover or a fuzzy head but also with aches and pains, particularly back pain? If this sounds familiar then have a read and see some of the reasons you may find you have back pain after drinking alcohol. 1. Vitamin D...
Quit Drinking Can’t Sleep? The World Of Sleep After Ditching Alcohol
You have decided to finally knock the booze on the head once and for all. You are mentally ready to reclaim your life from the world of drinking, rid your body of this liquid poison and spoil yourself with much-needed vitamins, healthy exercise and beautiful rest....
Timeline: So, What Happens When You Stop Drinking Alcohol?
Quitting alcohol is probably one of the greatest improvements that you can make to your health, both physically and mentally. Alcohol is not good for your body or your mind, and is one of the most potent addictions on the face of this planet. It is often said that...
Stop Drinking Alcohol Side Effects That Will Amaze You.
The Positive Effects That You Will Love 🙂 Alcohol is a very strong poison that we choose to put in our system so often. If you consider stop drinking alcohol side effects are always seen as a bad topic. But let’s look at all of the positive and amazing side...
Motivational Stop Drinking Alcohol Quotes
Some Motivational Stop Drinking Alcohol Quotes We all love words to inspire us. Some of the words will hit you in a way that makes you think….that makes you stop and take notice. Some words just sink deep. We have discussed our own favourite motivational stop...
Your plan is to stop drinking alcohol – goal – quit drinking and lose weight
Your plan is to stop drinking alcohol – goal – quit drinking and lose weight? Quitting alcohol can have profound benefits to you both mentally and physically this is not in question! But let’s look at one very specific benefit that kicking the booze...
How To Stop Drinking Every Night
Are you drinking alcohol every night, and looking at ways of reducing your intake? ContentsAre you drinking alcohol every night, and looking at ways of reducing your intake? Is drinking every night bad for you?03Is drinking every night bad for you?Is drinking every...
If You Are Asking How To Quit Drinking Alcohol On Your Own, You Should Probably Read This
Thinking of Quitting Drinking Alcohol On Your Own? You Should Probably Read This So, the decision to stop drinking alcohol has come. You have kicked around with a few ideas on how to remove alcohol from your life, and now come to the conclusion that you are going to...