Life In Detox
Life In Detox
There are no lights at the bottom of a bottle. It may as well have been the ocean floor, filled with curious creatures that can light up on demand, but in the end, they're all still blind. That's what addiction feels like – being stuck at the
It took me awhile to learn how to separate my cravings from my routine reactions. It would always go something like this: "I'm uncomfortable" which directly led to "I must drink". My brain was always trying to find the shortest ro
I thought you’d all like to know a bit more about me so here’s my favourite thing ever that I ordered, which finally arrived today. Yes, it’s a Golden Girls lunchbox, and yes, I am going to use it. #ThankYouForBeingAFriend #Golde
I've referred to it as the Horrible Awful and that's exactly what it was. I was knee deep in addiction and things at home with Hubs were disintegrating in direct proportion to my drinking and fumbling attempts at escaping my reality. I searched for i
Addiction is a funny little thing (and we all know that it isn’t very funny at all, regardless of which end of it you’re on). But, it turns you inside out and dangles the carrot to lead you one way then scolds you for not going to the o
I continue to be overwhelmed, humbled, and quite frankly – surprised – by the response and messages I receive daily from everyone who is and continues to read the Life in Detox book 🙏 It's a very good reminder that our struggles are mean
I held my breath when my Dad fell sick. When I quit my well paying corporate job to become a photographer. When my marriage nearly fell apart. When I chose to go to rehab. When I left for rehab. When I relapsed. When I got sick. When friendships diss
I came to learn that I didn't want to change myself; I only wanted to change how I was feeling. I wanted the hollowness of grief to go away, the immobility of trauma to go away, to resurrect and make peace with my dead and to somehow transform all of
The word “alcohol” is said to come from the Arabic term “al-khul” which literally means “Body Eating Spirit". It's the source of why many drinks are called "spirits", and also, it's the origin of the Engli
Getting sober meant dismantling my comfort zone to make room for my truth and all the challenges that came with it. It meant swallowing my pride, it meant brutal, painfully ugly honesty, and it meant freedom from the hamster wheel if I could step out
Alcohol worked like a liquid microscope for me, amplifying all my troubles and fixating on the small and insignificant things until they appeared to be of mountainous proportions. It kept me in a loop of looking too closely at all the wrong things, f
I can’t explain the feeling of one day sitting down and writing a few words on a blog (the first words ever on that blog) - “How did I get here?” and nearly 7 years later (the book is that big fill-in-the-blank in between) to see it
I was so tired of never having enough of what I no longer wanted – and it took courageous self-love that I didn't even know I had to sweat it out and push through - so I could finally allow myself to have what it was I truly wanted all along: f
From a new post on the blog today, about my upcoming book I'm working on called 'There Will Be Weeds'. 🌱📖 "Weeds are the ideal comparison when it comes down to the struggles we all share. The little things that pop up exactly where and when y
The more I drank, the more the dimming of my light became a bleak and rolling blackout until eventually the entire city of my spirit simply went dark. That's when the riots began. That's when all the monsters crept from the alleyways, no longer afr
I’m loving all the messages and emails, tags and shares of all of you who are reading or have read the book! If you’re reading it - share your pics with me or on Insta and tag @lifeindetox! 😍🙏🏻 I received an amazing pic from @hola_sobe
The day I got sober (after my epic post-rehab relapse) I woke up with wine stains on my shirt, my lips, my teeth and at least 3 or more spots on the floor and random pieces of furniture. I'm sure a few drops even landed on the dogs. I had pickled my
Just got the 15-minute test read back from the narrator of the Life In Detox book and I am BLOWN AWAY!!! 😍🤯 Beyond happy and a million times better than I ever thought possible or imagined; the book comes ALIVE when you “hear” it, and h
Did I miss anything? 🙈