Alcohol Freedom Blog

Once we have made a commitment to others and ourselves that we will do something about our drinking the situation becomes remedial. Nothing else takes priority over staying away from alcohol. It does not matter how badly you were addicted, the fact you chose to stop means you knew you had a problem. To what degree matters little since alcoholism is a progressive disease and once it has hold of you, it only gets worse.
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How many times have you quit drinking? Every alcoholic or problem drinker comes to the point with their drinking when they make a promise to themselves or to someone else that they will not touch another drink. It may be after an embarrassing bender or it could be a heartfelt promise to a loved one. However this pledge is made and to who is not really the point. Continue Reading »

As you progresses through recovery, life once again begins to take on some normality and routine is a welcome by product of this. As each new day passes, you strive to accomplish as much as possible in any twenty-four hour period. Initially it is exciting rediscovering things with a sober eye and perhaps trying new things as well.

As time goes on you may begin to notice a certain melancholy when doing some mundane task that takes you back to before your drinking got out of hand. This task may be more difficult than you remember it being or not taking as long to complete. One thing is apparent, you realize now how much time you wasted on drinking, how much time has passed, and how much you have to make up for.

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This is a useful phrase when it pertains to how we deal with the frustration in our lives created by others. Most of us can remember a time, probably many times, when we drank because of someone else “driving us to drink”. Some may even say it was as good an excuse as any for drinking too much. Problem drinkers and alcoholics have an egocentric personality and do not usually take well to other strong personalities confronting them. Continue Reading »

Part of the denial process for an alcoholic or problem drinker is wrapping their head around the fact that they may actually be an alcoholic. Up to this point in your life, an alcoholic might be the person you see sleeping off on a park bench with a newspaper blanket. Alcoholics are those people who are destitute and sick, stumbling around uncontrolled, making fools of themselves in public. No way could a person of your stature be an alcoholic.

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As recovering alcoholics or problem drinkers, relapse is only a drink away.

That next drink will not be our last drink and our better judgment tells us this even if we disregard it. When we stop drinking, unless we follow a strict treatment and recovery regimen and remain vigilant, we could easily slip back into our old destructive habits. There are some warning signals we should be aware of that can alert us to a potential return to drinking behavior. Continue Reading »

You have to wonder why these devices aren’t on every new automobile passing through car dealerships everywhere. The premise is quite simple and effective. Before a car can be started, one must blow into a breathalyzer type device successfully proving they are not intoxicated before the ignition will unlock. Continue Reading »

Alcohol recovery is a process that takes time, patience, fortitude and perseverance. Each set back will rip just a little more tenacity from your already shallow reservoir of resolve to beat the illness you are tasked with fighting. Little wonder then that small breakthroughs need to be savored and appreciated. Any disease that requires you to live minute to minute, hour to hour and day to day to survive the initial onslaught of demon compulsions is a tough adversary and so any victory is sweet. Continue Reading »