Sobriety

Does Drinking Consume Your Life? By Chris Does drinking alcohol consume most of your off time? Then you might be alcoholic, do You drink because you have to have the rush alcohol gives to you. Do you often black out from too much to drink? Well, these are examples of drinking too much but does it mean you cannot control your life because of these habits? These are things in life to consider if it takes up your lifetime. In other words, do you spend time with your wife drunk most of the time and around your family? You are the only one that can stop the insanity. Now you did not want to hear that but this is true. No one can make someone sober. You can encourage a person to get help, but don’t be rude about it. Try informing this drinker that maybe he or she should not drink because of this and that problem in your life. Treatment centers surround themselves with the 12 step program, but is this outdated? It still works is what some would say and it is the only way. I do not subscribe…

The worries that drag us down and holds us back from living the life we deep down dream about. So I would like to just quickly share one tip that helps me out with this issue. It is a simple two question combination that I have asked myself over and over until it became a habit. And until the questions often pop up automatically in my head in worry-inducing situations. The first question goes like this: How many of the things I worried would happen in my life did actually happen? Most things you fear will happen never happen. They are just monsters in your own mind. And worrying is most often just a waste of time. This is, of course, easy to say. But if you remind yourself of how little of what you feared throughout your life that has actually happened you can start to release more and more of that worry from your thoughts. So I ask myself this question to remind myself of how few of the things that I have worried about over the years that have actually become real. When fears feel va…