Smart Recovery Cost Benefit of Drinking or Not
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Smart Recovery Cost Benefit of Drinking or Not
Not Drinking Benefits
Stop hurting my family
Improve health, hope it is not too late.
Emotional stability
Reduced anxiety (I have felt anxiety reduce before when not drinking)
Self respect and stop hating myself (I am really ashamed and guilty of my behaviour just now)
Lose self pity
Better sleep
Feel happy waking up
Save money
Be more productive in my business
Drinking Benefit
Short term buzz
Challenges
To stop and maintain being stopped
Overcome fear of missing out fun and I am being denied something. I could have fun as kid and never wanted alcohol.
Plan of Action
Spend more time developing my business.
Exercise to improve mood.
Stop hurting my family
Improve health, hope it is not too late.
Emotional stability
Reduced anxiety (I have felt anxiety reduce before when not drinking)
Self respect and stop hating myself (I am really ashamed and guilty of my behaviour just now)
Lose self pity
Better sleep
Feel happy waking up
Save money
Be more productive in my business
Drinking Benefit
Short term buzz
Challenges
To stop and maintain being stopped
Overcome fear of missing out fun and I am being denied something. I could have fun as kid and never wanted alcohol.
Plan of Action
Spend more time developing my business.
Exercise to improve mood.
Not Drinking Benefits
Stop hurting my family
Improve health, hope it is not too late.
Emotional stability
Reduced anxiety (I have felt anxiety reduce before when not drinking)
Self respect and stop hating myself (I am really ashamed and guilty of my behaviour just now)
Lose self pity
Better sleep
Feel happy waking up
Save money
Be more productive in my business
Drinking Benefit
Short term buzz
Challenges
To stop and maintain being stopped
Overcome fear of missing out fun and I am being denied something. I could have fun as kid and never wanted alcohol.
Plan of Action
Spend more time developing my business.
Exercise to improve mood.
Stop hurting my family
Improve health, hope it is not too late.
Emotional stability
Reduced anxiety (I have felt anxiety reduce before when not drinking)
Self respect and stop hating myself (I am really ashamed and guilty of my behaviour just now)
Lose self pity
Better sleep
Feel happy waking up
Save money
Be more productive in my business
Drinking Benefit
Short term buzz
Challenges
To stop and maintain being stopped
Overcome fear of missing out fun and I am being denied something. I could have fun as kid and never wanted alcohol.
Plan of Action
Spend more time developing my business.
Exercise to improve mood.
good for you Gerard, this looks great. the SMART tools have been a great help in my recovery.
there is a somewhat cryptically-named sub-forum for SMART & similar methods in the Secular section if you ever need any help or want to discuss anything:
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...overy-methods/
there is a somewhat cryptically-named sub-forum for SMART & similar methods in the Secular section if you ever need any help or want to discuss anything:
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...overy-methods/
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