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Beautiful Girl

September 15, 2022 By Celeste Yvonne Leave a Comment

Beautiful girl, there’s something you need to know. People will try to contain you. To quiet you. To manage you. People will tell you what to do and who to be and how to act, to the detriment of your own good. You will be conditioned to hide your emotions, to carry the weight of…

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This weekend I went to a wedding at a friend's hou

This weekend I went to a wedding at a friend's house. As we chatted with fellow guests, my partner and I stood in line at the bar.
"What can I get you?" the bartender smiled. "We have everything!"
"Great!" I cheered. I was thirsty. "Something non-alcoholic please."
The bartender's cheery demeanor immediately turned to one of perplexity. He wasn't expecting this, apparently. Befuddled by my request, he told me there was juice and water bottles in the cooler around the corner. So... the kids cooler.
Yea, I know the drill. I've been sober a few years and I know all about the kids cooler. And yet I go into every social gathering, every wedding, every restaurant with almost a Pollyanna hope. Maybe the sober curious movement is making a ripple in the food and beverage industry. Maybe this time they'll have the non-alcoholic (NA) beer they said was out of stock last time. Maybe they've finally updated their menu to have NA options that are fun and flirty and celebratory.
But we still have a long ways to go, don't we? And at every social gathering, I still ask for my drink in a wine glass or a tumbler. And I ask for a lime wedge because, yes... it's more fun. And yes... it makes it look less like a kid's juice box and more like a grown up drink.
And yes, I don't drink but that doesn't mean my taste buds died. I still like festive drinks in fun glasses with pretty colors.
Yet more often then not, I wind up digging through the ice of a kids cooler, looking for something NA besides apple juice and Capri Sun.
Being sober in a world that idolizes booze feels like a target on our back. A target I never asked to be there. A target I never expected.
Quitting drinking was hard. But navigating in this boozy culture as the only non-drinker at almost every event, networking party, every wedding? That's harder.
A little inclusivity would go a long way. Offering NA options at your party. Throwing out non-alcoholic suggestions when you offer to buy someone a drink? It's an easy, inclusive concept that might make a big difference for someone newly sober and struggling.

Stay cool 😎 #gentleparenting #parenting #funnym

Stay cool 😎 #gentleparenting #parenting #funnymom

Please excuse my regular content for me to crack m

Please excuse my regular content for me to crack myself up 😂
Ok, I’ll go back to my normal posts now…

I still think this ALL THE TIME. 😂😂😂 Anyo

I still think this ALL THE TIME. 😂😂😂 Anyone else?

The mental load of alcohol was EXHAUSTING 😫

The mental load of alcohol was EXHAUSTING 😫

A funny thing happened on my first vacation withou

A funny thing happened on my first vacation without kids in years.
I remembered who I was. The pre-mother part.
You see, motherhood is so deeply consuming. It takes all of us. It holds on for dear life, and it’s hard to let go.
I didn’t realize it, but I had forgotten who I was and much of what I knew before the layer of motherhood coated me like a blanket.
Motherhood changes us, of course. It softens us and hardens us. Thickens and thins. Fills and drains.
Being away from my kids is hard, but having space to connect back to my core has energized me in a way I never expected.
Being a mom is a part of my identity. One of my favorite parts, in fact. But it’s just one part. I forgot that for a long time.
And when I took that layer off, even just for a few days? I remembered the woman who lives underneath the layers. And I remembered how much I love her.
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😂 but seriously, even as the daughter of an alc

😂 but seriously, even as the daughter of an alcoholic my goal was never to abstain. I always just wanted to find the secret to moderating #grayareadrinking #sobermom #addictionrecovery

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Sober vacations are next level.

Sober vacations are next level.

These middle years are hard.

These middle years are hard.

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