So interesting to me how our belief in booze to calm and bring peace when in fact its the opposite. I work in a high stress, extremely busy profession where alcohol abuse is almost a rite of passage. Now I honestly can't imagine how I got my job done when I was drinking heavily supposedly as a way to relax. The raging hangovers, the desire just to get home so I can have some more and of course the way it ended up spilling into my workday itself. I have much more time to relax and to work out and to just not be at work when I'm not working, now that I'm no longer drinking. It's a vicious cycle perpetuated by false beliefs in the poison itself.