How to Drink Less

<p>Ever find yourself wishing you could just stop over-drinking? You don’t identify as an alcoholic, per se – your drinking habits may be affecting your body or brain power a bit negatively, but they’re not affecting the lives of others or those you love – and maybe you don’t want to quit cold turkey, you just want to...reign it in a little?</p><p>I hear you. I’ve been there too. And it ain’t easy.</p><p>When I quit drinking, so many of my friends changed.</p><p>When I stopped over-drinking, it made me less easygoing – in a good way.</p><p>Because when we drink, we don’t care as much about things. We’re not thinking about them as much. We’re overeating, we’re thinking and worrying about our bodies instead of thinking and worrying about our <i>lives</i>.</p><p><strong>So first thing’s first:</strong> why decide to drink less, or stop altogether?</p><p>There’s no moral judgment about alcohol here – I want to know what it is <strong>inside </strong>you that is urging you to cut back?</p><p>What is that still, small voice in your head saying you’re missing out on something when you over-drink?</p><p>It may seem like freedom is the ability to drink however much you want, whenever you feel like it.</p><p>It may feel like you are constraining your freedom when you stop at one or two drinks, or when you don’t drink at all.</p><p>But friends, what’s going on when you change your relationship to alcohol is this: you get your freedom <i>back</i>.</p><p>When you NEED a drink to feel better?</p><p>When you NEED a drink to deal with boredom or the lack of self care?</p><p>When you NEED a drink to loosen up or to have fun at a party?</p><p>That is NOT freedom.</p><p><strong>The truth?</strong> Having something like this to work on – whether it’s over-drinking or over-eating or over-binge watching...etc – will help you in the long run. </p><p>Because when you learn to manage your urges, when you learn to address attachment and desire, you learn skills you can apply to <strong>any </strong>area of your life.</p><p>Luckily, there