Hola Sober Morning Reflection
by Susan Christina
any tools to help you alleviate your heightened senses from getting sober. You cry, get angry, weep, laugh, get annoyed, feel happy, and repeat. This cycle takes a toll on you emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually. If those emotions are not enough, altering your way of thinking and making progress in your sobriety can also place burdens on you. Remember that feelings are not facts, and you can change how you feel when you do something to change your perspective.” - Raw Nerve Blog Raw “On some days, emotional sobriety is just tolerating what you're feeling. For me, this includes not acting out and making impulsive emotional decisions when I'm feeling out of balance. It's not surprising that our automatic reaction is to avoid emotion. It's what we've been doing our entire lives with alcohol or drugs until we got sober. Emotional sobriety is a lifelong journey. It takes practicing a healthy emotional mindset to lead a happy life.” - Kelly Fitzgerald Raw. I have learnt to sit with the raw uncomfortable bits of me, raw questioning of my patterns and habits, and putting down the wine glass finding myself in full possession of a raw hangover-free Saturday, a beautiful starting point to my weekend. I wish for you to feel good this morning and to not shy away from the rawness of it all, it's not always pleasant but it is always healthier and better for us as women. Today I celebrate my rawness as I look skyward and say not today lady, not today.
“The true challenge we face is to look at ourselves and the world honestly. To see what wounds there are, so we can help heal them. Not to flinch. Not to spend our life wrapped in denial and trying to avoid pain. Not to avoid the feelings. As Buddhist writer Pema Chodron put it ” The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently." Healing means to live in the raw." Matt Haig - Book of Comfort Raw. Whilst drinking I never met raw outside of a vegetable or when my eldest took to a cave man type diet of eating raw for two weeks driving us all wildly insane munching bell peppers at every sitting. Raw was a word used around the vegetable rack and as an Irish woman raised in the 70's feelings didn't allegedly exist and so it never entered my head of safe broken ground where I felt uncomfortably comfortable. It was all I knew. Raw. “In early sobriety, mixed emotions can cause you to feel like a raw nerve without any protection against things that come your way. The trauma you have been through becomes too much for you to bear without
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