I wouldn’t trade it for anything. We are the lucky ones. And you can treat yourself too if you find alcohol is taking far more from you than it’s giving. But even for those who don’t become addicted, how many lives have been lost through one night of reckless drinking. How many women have been assaulted when under the influence and completely vulnerable? Too many I believe. There is so much scientific knowledge and information available to us now if we look for it. More and more people are finally seeing the Emperor is wearing no clothes! Trick or Treat, you decide! Happy Halloween! stop this adult ‘treat’. And horror of horrors, you find you can’t! You’re an addict, yes you. How can this be? How on earth did it come to this? Well the short answer is you’ve been tricked. But don’t blame yourself, as Susan Christina will tell you ‘You became addicted to an addictive substance’. It’s not your fault, but only you can get yourself out of the hellhole The good news, indeed the absolute truth is, my life in sobriety is filled with many gifts. I am part of a sisterhood here in Hola Sober that is the greatest treat I could have wished for. Alcohol is a drug, a sedative, and is an addictive one at that. And it’s legal. You can buy it anywhere. Where it can take you, well it’s like playing Russian Roulette. It’s only when you find yourself drinking more than you meant to, making a fool of yourself too many times, losing hours and days to hangovers, and causing pain and unhappiness to yourself and your loved ones that you may decide you need to
uncomfortable in my skin. Oh no, this treat was magic! And the following day when I was feeling like death and vomiting the contents of my stomach, well next time I wouldn’t mix my vodka with that orange concentrate! The fact is alcohol is a toxin and my body was just doing what it was designed to do….expel the poison. We didn’t know the science back then, and most likely wouldn’t have cared too much either. We were young, invincible and hey, everybody drinks! It’s the adults treat. We’ve finally stepped into the grown- ups world. And just like the Halloween traditions change, so did the marketing of the alcohol industry. No longer the man’s domain, alcohol advertising and marketing was now deliberately aimed at the women of the world. If you want to read how this unfolded, get yourself a copy of Ann Dowsett Johnston’s ‘Drink’, The Intimate Relationship between Women and Alcohol. It will certainly open your eyes as to how the alcohol industry tricked us into buying into this belief, that we sisters could have it all. If you look up the word ‘trick’ in the dictionary, it states to ‘cunningly deceive or outwit’ and boy did they do just this
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