by Esther Nagle | Jan 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago, the Sober Business Network Whatsapp group was filled with laughter as we enjoyed Michael Sargood’s first foray into standup comedy. A post shared by @happywithoutthehooch He shared a video from his Instagram, making fun of how newly sober...
by Esther Nagle | Jan 2, 2024 | Recovery Life
Dry January is a time when many people challenge themselves to go a month without alcohol. After the excesses of the festive December, it can be, for many people, a change to give their body and mind a break, and to enjoy a healthier month. It’s not that much of...
by Esther Nagle | Dec 27, 2023 | Recovery Life
10 years ago today, I probably woke with a hangover. I usually did on my birthday. Boxing Day always meant drinking. My son would go to his Dad’s, and I’d head to the bottle. Sometimes to my family’s boxing day party. But in the later years of my...
by Esther Nagle | Dec 21, 2023 | Recovery Life
The view before me took away what little breath I had left, and I felt a joy I had never experienced before. How could I have grown up here and never known how beautiful it was? How had I never seen these trees? Why did I not know how much joy there was to be found...
by Esther Nagle | Dec 20, 2023 | Sobriety rocks my life
In a society that often glorifies alcohol consumption, embracing sobriety can feel like swimming against the current. But what if we reframed our perception of sobriety? What if we saw it not as a deprivation of pleasure, but as an invitation to a whole new world of...
by Esther Nagle | Dec 19, 2023 | Sobriety rocks my life
Hi there you. It seems like such a good idea doesn’t it, this Dry January thing. You know that December is the month of excess. You’re still getting over the hangover from last weekend. That Christmas pub crawl seemed like a good idea at the time. You donned your best...
by Esther Nagle | Dec 11, 2023 | Sobriety rocks my life
Christmas time can be a wonderful excuse for a party, can’t it? Time to connect with your colleagues outside the office. With friends and family. Time to reconnect with those you haven’t seen throughout the year. Time to relax, celebrate and enjoy some fun times. For...
by Esther Nagle | Nov 9, 2023 | Healing
“I don’t need this anymore. I have other ways to deal with the shit in my life. We’ve all done the ‘I’m never drinking again” thing in the depths of a killer hangover. But this time was different. This time led to now, 9 years of sobriety. I didn’t tell myself I was...
by Esther Nagle | Nov 8, 2023 | Recovery Life
Dear Booze: When my life fell apart, you were there. I used to think I couldn’t be happy without you. I wrote this post on my old website back in 2017, in a flurry of emotional release via my keyboard. I was struck then by the similarities between how I felt...
by Esther Nagle | Nov 7, 2023 | Sobriety rocks my life
Between August 1960 and December 1962, a group of young Liverpudlians were making their name on the club circuit of Hamburg, Germany. They were barely out of school. George, the youngest, was just 17 when they first arrived in the clubs. This resulted in his being...
