Wholesome

I would wager that that's the experience of pretty much every single person on here, I know it was mine. I tried to control my drinking for years, I had all kinds of crazy rules, that I would break, sometimes just hours after I'd made them. It was very exhausting and disheartening. It wasn't until I fully accepted that the drinking had to be over, for good, that I was able to stop trying and start doing. Like Yoda says, "Do, or do not. There is no try." I used AVRT to quit, it's a how-to on how to quit and stay quit. The idea is not to remove the desire like other methods, or to treat some underlying condition, but to stay abstinent despite the desire to drink. It's not even about removing the AV or fighting against it, it's about not letting yourself be ruled by that voice in your head that talks you into drinking again, even though the real you knows better.