Originally Posted by
Thrifty 
Your beast will never be OK with the decision of you trying to kill it off, especially in the beginning and the beast will probably try to make you feel anxious and sad about the decision. But as long as you separate it from yourself, you will be fine. So, you shouldn't wait for the beast to stop bugging you all together before you make the Big Plan, it's not going to happen.
You are right on target here, by the way. Just recognize any sense of turmoil or feelings of discomfort at the idea of abstaining as the Beast, and not you. A pernicious belief in recovery circles is that addiction recovery is a constant struggle to stay sober. In AVRT, we just let the Beast struggle with abstinence, and that includes counting time since
IT'S last drink.