2021-10-09 04:26:26
Sobriety [part 2]
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Read the beginning in the previous post.
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So I was hiding behind the wine glasses. They were no longer filled with such high quality liquid (which is in fact not less poisonous), but the quantity gave me opportunity to calm the constant chatter in my mind for a bit at least.
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I started being so hungover. I remember time when I could not get up from my bed in the morning, as I had such a terrible headache and my hands were shaking.
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UHHHHH, can you imagine, I was a single mom also at that time, just like now, but my child was much younger and needed so much more attention.
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It is also about the balance between your work and rest you give to your body. When I worked as a PA I was almost like a robot glued to my phone or laptop for 24/7 with no days off for 6 years, with 2 weeks of vacation twice a year. Can you imagine how burned out I got? Before I was thirty, I felt it is an amazing quality to be a super-productive achiever. Then when I started creating my business, I though that wine would give me that energy to keep working at night for me to move forward as fast as I could... It was such an illusion that drinking is a must in the culture I come from.
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But the wake up moments had to come sooner or later.
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Back in 2019 I returned to Russia after many years of living abroad just to find out how poisonous food and water is there. You can buy everything in the shops, the shelves are loaded with a variety of chemicalized stuff. Chicken, avocado at any season, mangoes, oranges, all those are imported and brought from all over. I immediately stopped eating meat and started thinking about ways of getting better food, but at the same time I realized that when you don't eat meat you get wasted from alcohol much faster.
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So I didn't wait too long to stop all of that at once. I was severely damaged psychologically, trapped in the place I no longer belonged to. The only way out that I saw at the time was to go in.
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And I did that. I started waking up at 6 am and doing my practice before I was teaching at 8 am. Together with it I changed diet completely and stopped drinking.
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To be continued. #sobriety
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