Mrs D Is Going Within : How a Frantic Sugar-Binging Internet-loving Recovering-alcoholic Housewife Found Her Zen

Despite outward appearances three years after getting sober Lotta is struggling to deal with life in the raw. She's on edge and is battling to cope with the busyness and constant upheavals of life. It's becoming abundantly clear what people mean when they say putting down the drink is just the beginning. Truth is Lotta's life-long steady heavy drinking habit has left her as a fledgling emotionally. She's slowly accepting that if she wants to live in a truly settled and calm way, she needs to do some more work on herself. But what? Please don't say it has to involve turning into a hippy and going all mindful and zen. Isn't all that stuff boring, introspective and weird? Can't she just comfort herself with another chocolate muffin, distract herself on Instagram, and hope for the best? It would appear not. In Mrs D Is Going Within,. Lotta outlines the practices she developed and strategies she worked on to start establishing herself as an emotionally robust woman.

Featured in the 29 May 2017 New Zealand Newsletter.
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