Tapestry
When you regard your life as a rich, intricate tapestry, you are able to appreciate every little stitch, each individual visual depiction...
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Lucy Rocca
- Oct 8, 2023
- 3 min
11.5 Years On
You all know by now, I am sure, the sordid details of my final drinking session back in 2011, when I downed so much booze that I conked...
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Lucy Rocca
- Apr 4, 2023
- 3 min
After Cancer
I've always been fascinated in how the human mind deals with crises. How we gather the necessary tools and resources needed to fight our...
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Lucy Rocca
- Feb 5, 2023
- 2 min
The Forest
People often find it hard to love themselves, to think back far enough to see through all their mistakes and sadness, to a place where...
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Lucy Rocca
- Jan 23, 2023
- 3 min
Shame & Alcohol
I generally write about how good life is as a non-drinker, how much happier and brighter the world appears now that I’m not looking at it...
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Lucy Rocca
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
7 things 2022 taught me
When the shit hits the fan, you have two choices: sink or swim. Find a way to cope, or give up. This lesson is one that permeates and...
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Lucy Rocca
- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
A TOOL FOR BEHAVIOUR CHANGE THIS CHRISTMAS
This time of year absolutely filled me with loathing up until about a decade ago (funnily enough, when I stopped drinking alcohol!)....
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Lucy Rocca
- Nov 12, 2022
- 3 min
When One Becomes Two
We are born into a world in which all of our needs are instantly met by others. Throughout infancy and childhood (for those of us lucky...
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Lucy Rocca
- Jul 10, 2022
- 4 min
Move With The Times
Alcohol is closely tied in with nostalgia. For many of us, there are deeply entrenched associations between drinking and life events:...
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Lucy Rocca
- May 30, 2022
- 2 min
Your Reservoir Of Untapped Opportunities
Beneath the surface of you - the pre-programmed, outwardly obvious you - sits a reservoir of untapped opportunities. We mostly either...
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Lucy Rocca
- May 18, 2022
- 3 min
The Truth In Your Heart
Imagine a muddy pond. This little body of water has been stirred with a big stick, and the top half of it is now opaque with disrupted...
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Lucy Rocca
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
What Constitutes a 'Drink Problem'?
I was never a bottle-of-vodka-at-7am type of boozer. I loved alcohol and, as I transformed from a child to a teenager, I never imagined I...
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Lucy Rocca
- Feb 10, 2022
- 4 min
See The Future
When we are in the pit of despair, we're fully aware that we want, and need, to make big changes to the way we live, but the degree to...
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Lucy Rocca
- Feb 3, 2022
- 4 min
Open Your Heart
When it comes to motivation, most of us will try numerous different methods to instil behavioural changes that will last. Especially in...
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Lucy Rocca
- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
Christmas Connections
I quit drinking 10 years ago and STILL feel the pressure to drink alcohol at this time of year. I know I have a lot of triggers that are...
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Lucy Rocca
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
Happiness
A major reason for my unhappiness during my teens and twenties was the fact I had got a big life lesson back to front. This is not...
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Lucy Rocca
- Aug 12, 2021
- 4 min
Everything Changes
Human beings do not like change. The physiological reason behind this fact is down to the part of our brains called the amygdala, which...
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Lucy Rocca
- Aug 1, 2021
- 3 min
A Leopard Can't Change Its Spots
A Leopard Can’t Change Its Spots. If ever there was a wholly untrue and misleading phrase, it was this. The problem with proverbs is that...
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