Originally Posted by
AlericB 
If you start by saying that your excessive drinking has created an artificial survival drive - the Beast - which you can never eradicate, any more than you can your hunger drive, then you will always be subject to AV - the Beast's bark - which will be trying to get you to drink.
With AVRT, we are not 'subject' to AV, as if we were on the defensive, powerless against the big bad Beast. We accept and learn to welcome the AV as a sign of health, simply a consequence of physiological adaptation.
We do not fear the Beast, because all it can do is bark. That bark, in and of itself, is harmless, much like other thoughts that may cross through our minds.
AVRT is recovery with an attitude. No fear.
Originally Posted by
AlericB This compares to adopting the model of an eternal Beast with it's eternal bark which, to paraphrase, you will have to "wrangle with day after day after day down the road. "
There is no wrangling, because with a Big Plan in place, anything that the Beast says is dead wrong, even before it says it. With AVRT, we simply recognize, attribute, and separate.