by Duncan McLeod | Feb 26, 2023 | Alcohol free, Gratitude, life building,, Living without alcohol, Recovery from addiction, Sobriety
When I turned away from drinking alcohol, I thought I was ridding myself of its toxic and threatening effects on my physical health and its disabling nature on my relationships. O – M – G! That turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg. There is a...
by Duncan McLeod | Jan 23, 2023 | Alcohol free, dry january, Faith, Gratitude, life building,, Life Skills, Living without alcohol, Mental health, Recovery from addiction, sober curious, Sobriety, staying sober
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ve heard it all before. Let me listen to it again. Gratitude is so much more than a polite set of words. It is a mind-set, an attitude, and a viewing angle that directly turbo boosts my baseline abilities. In martial arts, I learned how to...
by Duncan McLeod | Jan 21, 2023 | Alcohol free, dry january, Faith, life building,, Life Skills, Living without alcohol, Mental health, Musings, Recovery from addiction, sober curious, Sobriety, staying sober
It’s a powerful thing to challenge the established. Why? To question the incumbent power base is to risk an attack. The potential gain is to invite reform. Danger versus reward. The ruling authority will have found a place in the landscape and successfully set...
by Duncan McLeod | Jan 18, 2023 | Alcohol free, dry january, Faith, life building,, Life Skills, Living without alcohol, Mental health, Musings, Recovery from addiction, sober curious, Sobriety, staying sober
I have been out of sorts for three days, unsettled and disquieted. I have craved an excess of something but struggled with how best to scratch that itch. A whole packet of chocolate digestives is not very rock ‘n roll. Has my life become beige? WTF...
by Duncan McLeod | Jan 14, 2023 | Alcohol free, dry january, Faith, life building,, Life Skills, Living without alcohol, Mental health, Musings, My Art, Recovery from addiction, sober curious, Sobriety, staying sober, Uncategorized
My teenage years began with taking off my life’s stabilizer wheels far too early. I stepped out from under the parental umbrella’s security and guidance and began making decisions for myself. It was a painful and tortuous long-haul disaster. I crashed a...
by Duncan McLeod | Jan 13, 2023 | Alcohol free, dry january, Faith, life building,, Life Skills, Living without alcohol, Mental health, Musings, Recovery from addiction, sober curious, Sobriety, staying sober
One hundred and forty-one days ago, I interrupted a destructive process happening to and within my life. Alcohol was slowly, sneakily, seditiously, and surely undermining and dismantling the components of my life. Oh no, it wasn’t! Oh yes, you were! Health...
