May 17 2010
Changing Your Life
When addicted to alcohol, it seems to rule your life. You are likely basing many of your life decisions around the use of alcohol. Where can I get my next drink? Does anyone know I am drunk? If I get caught, what will happen to my career and family? These types of thoughts can be racing through your mind at any given moment and make thinking about anything else very difficult.
When you decide to limit the influence of alcohol, you will be taking the first step toward getting your life back. You may have the self–realization that you don’t like where your life is going with alcohol at your side. Or it will take a definitive moment such as an unnatural behavior, accident or loss of a relationship due to excessive drinking.
Some will try to cut down on their drinking while others will try to completely eliminate it. Often times people find that these two methods are unsuccessful, leading them back to alcohol. When this occurs, drinkers will then seek professional help. Professional services such as in-house rehabilitation treatment centers or Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and other 12 step programs will help you to get your life back on track; however, sometimes these plans are not an option because of the sensitivity of your career, your position in the community or the fact that you simply do not have the time to be away from home for an extended time.
The Freedom From Alcohol® program helps you modify and control your drinking or opt for complete cessation if that’s what you wish. This program will help you to change your life by setting goals for yourself and giving you the tools necessary to achieve them. If you are ready to reduce the amount of alcohol you drink, eliminate it completely or just have questions about whether the Freedom From Alcohol® program is right for you, please contact me.
dr. sir,
you know that we aa”s do not have a prayer of modifying or controlling our drinking. sober your patients up and send them to us.
thank you,
scott
high functioning alcoholic clinician
There is a new book that offers a path for “Changing Your Life” entitled, ‘Shift: 13 Exercises to Make You Who You Want to Be’ By Takumi Yamazaki. This book is a teaching method to work with others and reframe your language as to how you would like things to be in your life. Mr. Yamazaki takes you from your current thinking and helps you to reframe these thoughts, to ’shift’ your present perspective to a more effective and liberating consciousness.
'It's not that you're lazy, and it's not that you lack motivation. No, you have plenty of motivation, but it always seems to fade away just when you need it. The problem is not that you don't have motivation, it's that motivation doesn't stick around long enough. This book takes knowledge and inspiration from motivation specialists and distills it into something easy to understand. Thirteen exercises and seventeen techniques illustrate points to help you take the steps to keep, bring back, or find the motivation you need to make the shift into who you want to be.'Note: I was offered, and accepted, an advanced reader copy of this book for review purposes
Shift: 13 Exercises to Make You Who You Want to Be
By Takumi Yamazaki
Alcohol most certainly does take over one’s life, there is a pre-occupation of the mind that permanently is thinking of the next drink.
In my experience it is not easy trying stay stopped on my own. Like this post suggests, it is good to try whatever you have to do to get and stay sober.
The key to making it easier is “wanting” to stop and not “needing” to stop.
Do not suffer in silence.