There is nothing in my experience that says I can return to it.

The Sinclair Method seems to reduce many people down to acceptable levels, but you have to take naltrexone before every drink for the rest of your life. So that isn’t a ‘cure’, either.

Regardless....I think all of us would agree a life worth having with rarely a thought to alcohol is cure enough.

I just went to the supermarket again. It’s a sunny day; immediately my felt sense is that there is this “whole world” cut off from me. I do self enquiry meditation, and so I (uncharacteristically) asked “who is it that wants this?”

Seeing as I can witness the one who wanted it, who played out the memories and fantasies....then it is certainly not all of me. And immediately parts of me filled the space; ones that remembered how much they didn't want so much of what comes with alcohol, alcoholic or not.

All of that without actively trying to convince myself of anything. Amazing, really.