🎄 Christmas Doesn't Have To Be A Challenging Time...

I know that a lot of people who are in sobriety tend to see the Christmas period as a challenging time.

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Why?

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I don’t know.

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Because it doesn’t have to be that way…

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It can be even more enjoyable when sober.

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Drinking, when you have a problem with alcohol, only brings misery into your life.

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Staying sober on the other hand, brings the opposite into your life.

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So why does the Christmas period have to be different to any other time of the year?

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It’s just another day/week in the big scheme of things.

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In my opinion, it’s just an excuse to become a little bit lax with sobriety.

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An excuse to drink ‘because it’s Christmas’.

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Maybe there’s a fear of missing out…

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Missing out on what?

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Misery. Pain and suffering?

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Because that’s what drinking will bring - if you have a problem with alcohol of course.

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Even if you don’t have a problem with it…

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It still brings the above when you over-do it, right.

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So why bother in the first place.

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What benefits are there to drinking?

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From where I’m standing - NONE!

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There are many mistaken beliefs about alcohol, a big one being that it’s a ‘social lubricant’.

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But are you telling me that you cannot enjoy yourself and that you cannot socialise without alcohol?

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If that’s a yes - then you may have a problem with it…

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You’re using it as a crutch.

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When you step out of that false belief system and see alcohol for what it really is - just a toxin that your body cannot get rid of fast enough…

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You step into freedom.

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Freedom from suffering, and freedom from pain and misery.

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Life can then be lived, and not just endured.

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If you want to start a new life in sobriety next year…

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Get in touch.

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I’ll help you see through all the false beliefs…

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And help you start living instead of just enduring.