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		<title>What We Talk About When We Talk About Alcoholism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaning against one of the bookshelves at the Strand this past Sunday, I reread Raymond Carver’s short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.  This simple and somewhat confusing story has always been, for me, a reminder of how difficult it is to capture love in words. What is love? What isn’t? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=401&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equanimity 101 (or Two Moments of Whoa!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people experience breakthroughs when they meditate. I am not one of them. While I endeavor to maintain perfect awareness on the breath, instead I seem to be trying to tame my wild-horse mind that sets off to the races the moment my butt hits the cushion. Occasionally, however, there are moments of clarity that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=395&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reality, Not TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leah Odze Epstein, co-founder of the beloved Drinking Diaries blog, recently wrote a wonderful article entitled “What the ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Taught Me About Women and Drinking.” If you’re not familiar with the cultural artifact that is RHOBH (and if you’re not, I’m truly impressed), it’s a reality television show about a group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=389&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping it Hot after the Honeymoon’s Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the first few weeks or even months of your most recent relationship? The marathon dates where you never ran out of things to talk about, the continuous stream of texts in which he shared the most mundane details of his day in the cutest way, the way she always woke up smiling, her skin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=383&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today on TheFix.com, my article on meditation and sobriety</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meditation: One Breath at a Time For years after I quit drinking, I dreaded coming home to my empty apartment. Without the company of a bottle of wine, I faced loneliness, restlessness and uncertainty. My impulse to anesthetize myself, to drink to avoid my feelings, stayed strong and troubling. Many turn to the 12 Steps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=379&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practice makes perfetto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known into the unknown.&#8221; ~unknown &#160; I was nervous to return to Sicily this December. When I visited in August, speaking Italian with my boyfriend’s family was very difficult. Though I had purchased several books and studied on my own, my knowledge was basic at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=375&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had one of those dreams in which you’re trying to get away from something or someone but your legs just won’t work? You feel like you’re stuck in invisible quicksand. And the fact that you can’t get away makes whatever you’re trying to get away from that much more terrifying. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=370&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me the other night as I left Italian class and looked up at the Beaver moon: moving to New York would have been a completely different animal if I was still drinking. Like the movie Sliding Doors, in which the main character’s life splits into two parallel scenarios depending on whether or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=366&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today on Drinking Diaries: The Hard Questions (about alcohol)</title>
		<link>http://drinkingtodistraction.com/2011/11/04/today-on-drinking-diaries-the-hard-questions-about-alcohol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to share a blurb of my piece on the hard questions about alcohol, which was featured today on Drinking Diaries: &#160; For years before I decided to stop drinking, I struggled with a single question: Am I an alcoholic? I thought there were two answers: Identify as an alcoholic and stop drinking, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=364&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sexy Side of Sober</title>
		<link>http://drinkingtodistraction.com/2011/11/02/the-sexy-side-of-sober/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up to this point I’ve talked about the many benefits I’ve experienced since quitting drinking. Increased awareness, addressing my fears, finding out who my true friends were – these were just a few of the positive things that came out of this very difficult decision. But I have to share, there is another side to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drinkingtodistraction.com&amp;blog=17994470&amp;post=358&amp;subd=drinkingtodistraction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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