Originally Posted by
Lulu45 
Hello, today is the day I decided to give up drinking. I’m 45, with 2 children and work full time. Since isolation I’ve been drinking everyday and the amount I drink frightens me. Appreciate any advice you can give me. Thanks
Why did you decide to give up drinking?
The only way you will stop desiring heavy substances and change your behavior is by seeing more happiness (reward) in the change than in the using. You must reach that conclusion yourself because, as Aristotle said, “We desire in accordance with our deliberation.”
When your
values and
purpose in life trump your drinking, you won't have a problem stopping. I spent 45 years of my life, drinking and drugging before I realized I had lost my values and purpose in life.
1 Corinthians 13:11. “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”