…your taste. Ingredients: 2 cups of ripe fruit Selection of spices, herbs or other tasty things, according to your taste (ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, mint, basil, star anise, rosemary, kaffir lime leaves, pepper corns, chillies … the list is endless) 2 cups of sugar 2 cups of vinegar Equipment: 1 large glass bowl or wide jug 1 large sieve or some…
How to enjoy being alcohol-free on big occasions With big early-year national occasions coming up like Australia Day and the Super Bowl, now’s a good time to check in with your goals and ensure you’re ready to meet them when the pressure to stray will be at its greatest. If you set New Year’s goals to cut back or stop…
…woman who’s mumbling to herself in the supermarket with a basket full of biscuits – although it most certainly does that. In recruitment, I’ve heard a lot of us joke that we are high functioning alcoholics and that’s ok. We need the booze to cope with our stressful jobs right?! It’s almost like we don’t want to say the word…
…alcohol makes you more impulsive and therefore more susceptible to that tempting bowl of french fries. Plus, when you’re drinking or feeling hungover, you generally don’t feel like bounding about, and that means you’re not burning up the amount of energy that you might be if you were off alcohol. Your Liver Will Thank You Your liver’s job is to…
…often can’t help ourselves – no doubt led down that path by evil scientists and taste technicians working for Big Chip, Big Donut and other shadowy cabals. Discretionary foods are characterised by being energy dense and nutrient poor, and also by being more-ish (try to eat just one Pringles chip from the bowl and you’ll know what that means). We’re…
…removed from our life, suddenly there are new venues to discover where we can easily suggest meeting up or to visit together. Check out these alternatives venues and non-alcohol events serving super alternatives Greytown Truckshop – Greytown, New Zealand Greytown Truckstop Buddhabar Experience – Sydney, Byron and Melbourne Sydney Ecstatic Dance – The Rocks, Sydney Brunswick Ace bar – Melbourne…
…(and I’m still working through this today) is once the cloud of alcohol disappeared, I noticed a) what an anxious person I am b) I had no emotional dictionary to call upon when I was feeling something and c) I was super sensitive. I had no idea how to label how I was feeling. It all felt the same to…
I admit it, I’ve been an A-grade show pony since I was a kid; a super-social animal who enjoyed being around people and making them laugh. I always had lots of friends, a love of parties and a strong case of FOMO. And as it happens this was not only part of the reason I drank – to quell my…
FRESH (therefore myself) has been incredibly busy of late. Firstly, I have been invited to give a couple of talks at QUT and University of the Sunshine Coast about Hello Sunday Morning, which has provided me with an opportunity to get up on my soap box and talk about problematic binge drinking. By far the most interactive lectures I have ever been…
…living crap out of myself emotionally. I could tell myself that because I had drunk that wine, it was all ruined. That I had lost everything I had worked so hard for (I’m not sure about you, but my inner critic is super melodramatic – like, award winning melodramatic, and a massive bitch. Don’t worry, I don’t like her either)….
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