Originally Posted by
Lenina 
For me, the hardest part was making the decision to quit drinking. Once I had committed to permanent abstinence, I don't feel a struggle. I acknowledge the impulse and move on. Does it not work the same way for you guys?
Love from Lenina
Interesting!
I still feel my sober living / sans-alcohol life struggles, although I don't struggle with desire for drinking alcohol, because my Beast owns those struggles. Its a very subjective level of experiences we are talking about here. It took some time for my alcoholic mind to change out, and as that process progressed, my struggles and my Beast's struggles are distinctly seperated. I no longer 'feel' alcoholic anxiety and obsessional forces, I'm not a prisoner or victim to my alcoholism, and I'm mindful with AVRT that my alcoholic desire is simply elsewhere, not extinct, or gone... just elsewhere.
This thread rocks.