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Old 08-01-2017, 06:38 PM
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Think of it as something random that passes through your field of vision -- a feather, a blip -- and acknowledge it. There were times earlier on where I would say aloud "That's an urge." (Or maybe just in my head if I wasn't alone )

Then, reject it. Play the tape forward, think of what you'd have to lose, remember a gnarly hangover, whatever. Don't elevate your anxiety over it, it's just an urge, doing what an urge is going to do. Then you do what you're going to do -- tell it no.
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