In addition, Craig's formal training and certifications provide him with the knowledge and skills to develop effective strategies and techniques for addiction recovery. The Stop Drinking Expert approach to alcohol addiction uses a unique combination of CBT techniques and NLP reframing. Demands don’t work on me. Threats push me farther into defense mode. We are still getting a divorce. I know if I see a young mother giving her child a shot for a celebration I will speak up. I will try to protect that child, as no person ever did for me!

That does not make me an alcoholic or a person who has a problem with alcohol. I am not and do not. There are many rites of passage we go through in life. Learning to drive and getting your driver’s license….graduating high school, then possibly college, and getting your first job. For some of us, getting married and becoming parents is also a rite of passage.Do not take any supplements listed here without consulting your doctor or other healthcare professional. Because of the hardwiring, you have constructed in your brain and your overactive hypothalamus. You may never achieve total zero, but every day you don’t drink, the base state of withdrawal drops a little further. Thank God I found your program. I get it. On the day I started the book, I embraced your approach and now am able I look at alcohol in a new light. If you are currently dependent on alcohol to the point where if you stop you experience traumatic physical symptoms such as spasms, fitting, fever, and vomiting. You will need to see your doctor and explain that you are using this method to stop. Supplements To Help Stop Drinking: Side Effects After college, my early adult working life was filled with happy hours and club hopping. Making and keeping friends seemed to revolve around a tamed down version of college shenanigans, with a sense of responsibility due to having to “get up for work in the morning.”

It was so foul, so disgusting it was mind-boggling! How could I have been ingesting this daily, for years, and never smelled it for what it was? So, I was walking to the sink and smelled this poison. I fully believed at that point (and still do) it and all alcohol is and was poison. When I smelled that vodka my stomach twisted and tried to crawl up my throat! By the age of 11 I had already been introduced to the adult world of parties, sex in all forms, and passing out drunkenness. I put my soul, body and mind at tremendous risk when I would attend these adult parties and me, nor my mother (my father was already out of the picture) cared. I had never seen or learned of a different norm. Not from friends, family, my husband. No-one showed me differently, and I didn’t want to see anything else anyways. The non-smoking did not last of course. You’re right, I can’t preach about it, only share it with others who want help and can relate to some close friends who have been able to quit.

Planning my day around where and when I could drink, vacations that would allow me to indulge and embarrassing myself at times because I thought I was so funny and smart. What an ass! Maybe the alcohol was at fault, maybe not, it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. They happened. My grandfather on my mother’s side and his brother both had a SERIOUS drinking problem. His brother finally stopped drinking and asked his mom- my nana, to no matter what it takes give him his daily pill to help not drink. 1.5 years later, clean and sober, he was killed. Well, this past June I came AWFULLY close to getting a DUI, and I KNEW I shouldn’t have been driving. I KNEW I should have called Uber, or Lyft or for that fact walked the ½ (or less) mile home!!! But, no, that was not my norm, that was not something I learned from watching all those people in my life who drank.