by Duncan McLeod | Sep 26, 2022 | Life Skills, Sobriety
Support is crucial I am going to thank and celebrate each, and every, one of those seconds! I am still sober! I am still on the train. That I see going 11 days, without pouring poison down my throat, as an accomplishment, is seriously messed up. I know! But I do...
by Duncan McLeod | Sep 26, 2022 | Life Skills, Sobriety
Not a good day Not an easy day The bad voice in my head was loud. I struggled to stay focused. I waned and wobbled. Why? Who knows? Maybe the euphoria of these initial victorious days has a sell-by date and has ebbed? Maybe it’s a full moon. Maybe I am human? Maybe...
by Duncan McLeod | Sep 26, 2022 | Life Skills, Musings, Sobriety
Let’s take stock. I check my diary and count the days again! 9 My train has definitely left the station and the amazing, terrific, fantastic, brilliant -shall I go on? YES! – incredible, fabulous, IN-YOUR-FACE-ALCOHOL! news is that .. I have a ticket! AND, I am on...
by Duncan McLeod | Sep 23, 2022 | Faith, Life Skills, Musings, Sobriety
There is a voice in my head which can’t be trusted. In fact, it needs to be 100% ignored, and over time completely silenced. It is a lying, sabotaging, foolish bastard of a voice. I f***ing hate it! It is a voice that has always advocated for and encouraged my...
by Duncan McLeod | Sep 23, 2022 | Life Skills, Musings, Sobriety
I am amazed and slightly disconcerted to find myself in a new world, surrounded by the familiar and yet not. Being sober for 7 days is reminiscent of a scene from the film ‘Matrix’, where Neo awakes into a new reality and asks why his legs are stiff. The reply comes:...
