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Hello, My Name is Jade and I’m an Alcoh-whoops!

My name is Jade and I’m a Medium Writer Hi friends and dear readers. I’ve been writing on Medium since 2019 but more consistently in the past few months, so I felt it was a good time to introduce myself. I’ve written my whole life. Mostly short non-fiction personal essays…

Life

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Hello, My Name is Jade and I’m an Alcoh-whoops!
Hello, My Name is Jade and I’m an Alcoh-whoops!
Life

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AINYF…Alcohol is NOT Your Friend

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Alcohol Dependency is a Spectrum

People often reach out to me about their drinking and their personal relationship with alcohol. I’ve encouraged it. I’m outspoken about my sobriety and my alcoholism and I regularly post about it on my social media. I’ve said that if anyone needs help or is questioning their relationship to alcohol…

Mental Health

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Alcohol Dependency is a Spectrum
Alcohol Dependency is a Spectrum
Mental Health

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Where Millennials End

·Oct 4, 2021

Loneliness is Plaguing Our Young People

I keep wanting to say that, “It’s been a tough year.” It still feels like we are in the year of COVID. The year of a global pandemic that shut down our businesses, social lives, and schools. In reality, it’s been almost two years, and we are still reeling from…

Young Adulthood

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Loneliness is Plaguing Our Young People
Loneliness is Plaguing Our Young People
Young Adulthood

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Aug 24, 2021

Young Adult

How to open the mail and other adult responsibilities I still have trouble opening the mail, or answering the phone when it rings. Early in the program, my sponsor would have me pick up the phone and call three women a day. Call them on the phone. Like, how totally…

Mwc Reentry

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Young Adult
Young Adult
Mwc Reentry

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Aug 18, 2021

My Cabin in the Desert

Living in the high desert during a global pandemic Did I manifest a global pandemic? I mean, I have manifested the exact right chair before, or the perfect dress from the thrift store. Normally, if I think about a thing often enough it appears. Whether good or bad. …

Mwc Space

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My Cabin in the Desert
My Cabin in the Desert
Mwc Space

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Aug 16, 2021

Death of an Alcoholic

A story about letting go “Where do you go when you die while still living?” I had dramatically scribbled this into the Moleskine notebook my Mom dropped off at the nurse's station. I wrote about everything. What I ate, what Comstock was wearing, how I felt, the temperature outside (even…

Mwc Death

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Death of an Alcoholic
Death of an Alcoholic
Mwc Death

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Aug 8, 2021

To All the Jobs I’ve Had Before

A memoir, antics in the workplace and self-exploration Lemonade Stands and Lies My first job was hustling for a Nintendo. My parents were on the lower-middle-class side and they were young. Younger than seems appropriate looking back on our history as my thirty-eight-year-old self. When I was six and in desperate, indescribable need of…

Mwc Work

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To All the Jobs I’ve Had Before
To All the Jobs I’ve Had Before
Mwc Work

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How Dare You

·Aug 3, 2021

Unpopular Opinion: You Drink Too Much

How society has deemed it acceptable to get sloshed I don’t drink alcohol anymore. I quit drinking almost four years ago. When I tell people I don’t drink I get one of two reactions. Either it’s a nonissue and the person hardly cares when I tell them I don’t drink…

Alcohol

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Unpopular Opinion: You Drink Too Much
Unpopular Opinion: You Drink Too Much
Alcohol

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ILLUMINATION

·Jul 23, 2021

Three Powerful Words That Will Change Your Life and Your Business

What we can learn from help, thanks and wow — “Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you…

Success

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Three Powerful Words That Will Change Your Life and Your Business
Three Powerful Words That Will Change Your Life and Your Business
Success

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AINYF…Alcohol is NOT Your Friend

·Jul 18, 2021

Why You Shouldn’t Date if You Are Newly Sober

The dangers of dating in early recovery — There is a suggestion in twelve-step recovery programs in regards to dating. It’s a suggestion simply because there are no directives other than just don’t drink or use. Everything else is advice passed on from one sober person in recovery to the other. Stricly suggestive. Take it or leave it. …

Dating

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Why You Shouldn’t Date if You Are Newly Sober
Why You Shouldn’t Date if You Are Newly Sober
Dating

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