Gray Area Drinking | Jolene Park | TEDxCrestmoorParkWomen

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  @MaryJane-xd4sn · 6 years ago

  Today is my  1st day of sobriety

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• PI

  @picklechicandthejuicenuggets · 6 years ago

  I am in residential treatment for alcohol and mental health.  Many residents ask WHY so many salads?  WHY yoga?  WHY mediation and art?  WHY gardening and sewing, etc.  This TED TALK explains the reasons why in such a simplistic and optimistic way.  I am going to pass this link to others in my community.  THANK YOU!  82 DAYS SOBER FOR ME TODAY!!!  Looking forward to yoga tonight at 6pm  :)

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• HE

  @healinginreach4444 · 5 years ago

  I am three weeks sober.  I feel encouraged by all the amazing changes i feel and that i am living.

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• AL

  @AllansStation · 6 years ago

  i can fully agree, After 40 years of regular and quite heavy drinking, i just decided for no particular reason - enough of that-  12 years ago and still on the wagon. That was it as simple as that.

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• DA

  @Dan-vy8he · 2 years ago

  Thank you for sharing your story. I'm two 15 days sober, not because rock bottom, because I want to live better..🎉

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• MA

  @maryclayton7477 · 8 years ago

  1677 days for me - this is the closest description of what I experienced that I have ever heard. I did have a BIG moment some may call rock bottom but it was not jail or anything like that. It was a spiritual rock bottom and THAT changed my life!

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• MG

  @mgouley · 8 years ago (edited)

  I really relate to this. The next time my sister-in-law asks me to explain to her why I quit drinking, yet again, I'm going to direct her to this video. LOL!  Coming up on 22 months for me.

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• PC

  @PC-mx9xc · 3 years ago

  This reminds me of goodwill hunting. Robin Williams telling Matt Damon it's not your fault so many times they cry together, so inspirational

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• KA

  @karenkaren3189 · 5 years ago

  I quit eight years and four months ago. I had cut back gradually for the two years before I quit. I didn’t have a physical dependence, I never got in trouble with the law, never drove drunk, never went to work drunk. However I gradually became emotionally dependent on my wine ( beer, occasional scotch) a bit too much.<br>I think millions of people fall into this grey area drinking. I know I did.

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• SW

  @swissdaz1074 · 6 years ago

  Like so many people in the comments... she has perfectly described where so many people find themselves. I am one of them, first week for me, but determined to make this work. 🙏🏻

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• LE

  @leesalovely2782 · 6 years ago

  142 days of sobriety for me...thank you for sharing your experience.

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• GR

  @gretch484 · 6 years ago

  I am a gray area alcoholic! &nbsp;Thank you for sharing!!!! &nbsp;I have has 24 hrs sober.

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