All Consuming: Bottles to books
Whether or not I believe in the idea of an 'addictive personality', I can’t escape the fact that once I’m into something, I’m all in. Understanding that about myself helps me temper over-indulgence now, but my ‘all in’ attitude used to run unchecked in my younger drinking days, and it's fair to say it did cause some problems. The paradoxical challenge is that the same intensity has driven me to most of my successes in life though, so it would be unwise to try to blunt that spiky edge of my personality too much. I have proven to myself many times that this all consuming trait can be channelled into positive outcomes, and never more so than in my early days of choosing AF; I think that’s why the first few weeks and months felt so easy. I’m a sucker for novelty and during those early weeks, I found all the shiny new information about sobriety infatuating. So, this month’s blog is slightly different and whilst there may be the odd memoir and deep thought, this one is really abo...