This Side of Alcohol: Random thoughts and candid words of pain, hope, humor, love - and all that is possible in sobriety.

How grey area drinking kept me trapped...

"Gray area drinking" refers to a level of alcohol consumption that falls between moderate and risky drinking. Gray area drinking can describe people who misuse alcohol or struggle to control their alcohol consumption but do not fulfill criteria for an alcohol use disorder, or alcohol addiction.

"Peggi, you are done, and you will be okay."

These are the words I heard in my heart as I fell to my knees in my bedroom on July 12, 2019, committed to declarin...