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 | 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 | Sep 3, 2023 | Recovery Life
If I had known in April 2014 that the Yoga teacher training course I was so excited to begin would lead to me giving up drinking and smoking for good, there’s a good chance I would have bailed on it. The idea of sobriety, and living without booze, cigarettes or...
by Esther Nagle | Sep 1, 2023 | Recovery Life
“I’m not drinking today, I’m doing that Sober October thing, remember?” “Esther, look at the state of you. You’ve had a shit of a day, one glass of wine won’t hurt, and it will help you relax a bit. You can have a cup of tea once you’re not so strung out” Famous...
