Gulp, Aleric, reading that letter saddens me. It brought to mind what I put my family through, by allowing my Beast to run the show. For allowing my Beast's best thinking to manipulate me. For allowing my Beast to shout down (with thoughts, feelings, urges and cravings) the ethics of my true self, the authentic conscious, rational me.
Once I stopped drinking forever, my family were initially sceptical, being immersed in one day at a time, programs, never say never. But when I showed them the science behind AVRT, they understood and believed that I was done with drinking.
And the more I read (I'm following a 'live like a Stoic for a week' course presently), the more I understand Jack Trimpey, when he said he simply pulled together the method by which people have been stopping drinking, effectively, for eons.