Sam. You CAN do it.
Visualize it. Visualize the holidays. Visualize the date with new gal. And while you visualize it, see yourself laughing, watching TV, eating dinner, feeling feelings, having craving, ALL without alcohol.
Visualize those things as a binge drinker. The blackouts. The mean things said. The risks taken, those dangerous risks. Will you feel,like 💩 in the morning?
No one,NO ONE, wishes they drank more the next day.
What to do when the hard waves come? Walk, like Kaily said. Sit on your hands. Take a shower. Clean a junk drawer. Sleep. Cry. Eat. ANYTHING. Licorice, chocolate, cookies, chips, a BLT, soup, whatever.
The urges can last 10 minutes. If they do, you are probably inviting those thoughts, those lies, to stay for tea in your head. Let them come, and show them then back door. Buh Bye……..
Its easier when we feel like crud, harder for me at about day 4 through day 90.
I was a daily drinker (self destructer). I drank because I was happy. Because I was baking. Because I remembered my sexual abuser. Because I had been duped by men. Because I felt good, because I was doing the dishes. Because…………..(fill in the blank).
Glad you found us.
welcome, we understand