Originally Posted by soberjohndoe
How do you keep from thinking that you have somehow gotten better and can drink again. It is if i seem to forget about my problem and how bad things had gotten in the past.
I've been sober for over 1 month now and I use AVRT, as SSIL75 mentioned above. Once you've decided you have an addiction to alcohol, you can then decide to commit to a lifetime of abstinence. The AVRT Matrix is the best tool I've ever seen to make this work. Some do it spontaneously on their own (I was doing it briefly this way, then I was introduced to AVRT... which only formalized what I was doing anyway, and solidified it for me).
Then there's the AA route of "one day at a time"... and this just didn't make sense to me. I don't want to live that way and chose not to.
Peace came for me once I realized I had all the power within me to stop, and do so abruptly... it worked like a charm. I have had very few urges since, and I always trump them with AVRT or my own special hybrid of that.