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Drink Drunk Distraction

by Danj

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All the time now, it seems like I’m complaining. Walking miles with a screaming baby on my shoulder, doing laps of the lounge room. Getting up at 5am. Work is horrible. Wife is angry. Money is sh...


July 23, 2018

Things to do every day

Eat well Exercise Write every day Meditate Tell someone I love them


July 22, 2018

About a week

No booze for almost a week. Skin clearer. Head on forwards. Capable. Happier. Less tired. Good.


July 19, 2018

Cold War

The morning, where you’ve had a disagreement last night, and you give your partner a cheery ‘good morning’, but oh. It’s still going. Cold stare and the shuffling of a dressing gown. Last day of ...


July 19, 2018

Unfortunate

Here is a new day and it’s like smoke curling around my fingers. I started to see the complexity in something in the afternoon and it threw me. I thought ‘here’s something I haven’t tried’ then t...


July 18, 2018

Boring but short

Haven’t drunk anything for 2 days, which isn’t a massive win, but I definitely feel better escaping from being hungover for 48 hours. Not feeling anxious for the first time in a while helps. I’m ...


July 17, 2018

Beyond Anger

So my wife was telling me about a koan she’d read that I’d never heard of… it goes something like: “Beyond anger is grief Beyond grief is the clear blue sky” And that kind of resonated with me. E...


July 16, 2018

Better

Things are sort of better today. I had a good sit and a think about what’s been bothering me - it’s basically about going to mediation with my ex this Wednesday. Our daughter, G, my eldest and he...


So I’m a little end of tether here. Just a little teensy bit towards the end of the rope. I got three kids asleep, my wife is wrecked from looking after an angry little ball of newborn, and I’m o...


Book Description

Probably some things about why I drink and what else I might be able to use to get around those things