LIFE WITHOUT ALCOHOL – ARE YOU SOBER CURIOUS?
I did not consider myself to have a drink problem. Everyone I knew drank. It was the normal thing to do. Friends, work colleagues, relatives, girlfriends, teachers, lecturers, even priests. I could go on.
How much you drink is NOT relevant to anybody else, only you, because it’s all about you.
For example, two glasses a night could be highly dangerous to one person and to another it could just be their starter. Everybody is different.
When I stopped drinking, I noticed that the first thing other drinkers ask (or think) is, ‘Do you have a problem?’ This is only to make them feel better about themselves. They are just trying to gauge themselves against you.
By stopping drinking, you are a shining beacon. You are doing things differently, taking the path less travelled, wanting a better life. You have decided to leave the tribe. This tends to make anyone staying in the tribe feel uncomfortable. They want to believe the only reason you have stopped is because you have a problem or you have found a new religion! Other drinkers need to put you in a box, label you, and then forget about it. They don’t need to ask any more questions. They can go on drinking as normal.
Even with my regular alcohol intake, I ran my own successful marketing agency, have been married for 25 years and have three wonderful, grown-up children. But every day, I was putting this poison inside myself, thinking it was some form of relaxant, stress reliever, anxiety killer.
But I was overweight, short of breath, anxious, short-tempered and doing very little exercise. These were all symptoms of too much alcohol consumption and an unhealthy lifestyle.
One of the most important, if not THE most important thing anyone who drinks could learn is this: believing you can never stop drinking is just a belief. That’s all it is. A false and limiting belief. And like all beliefs, they can be learned and unlearned. That’s what I did. I changed my belief about alcohol. This book will show you how I did it.
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