E163: Can We Learn to Moderate Our Drinking?

I desperately wanted to learn how to become a take it or leave it drinker. I thought if I took a 90 day break, then I’d reset my tolerance and break the bad habit and I’d finally be able to drink like everyone else. I believed I’d be able to achieve this since my drinking wasn’t that bad and I didn’t have any major consequences like a DUI or losing my job. You have to have big consequences to need to quit forever right? Keeping the hope of moderating someday alive was what kept me stuck in the cycle. I was always focused on the end goal of moderating someday, so even when I took breaks I couldn’t really enjoy the benefits of sobriety. If you’re stuck believing it’ll be different this time, then I will cover 3 reasons why it won’t be different. 

What to listen to next:

E99: why we can never drink ever again

E97: why we keep believing it'll be different this time

E91: do you want to be sober or do you want to drink without the consequences?

E155: my career journey

E54: using alcohol to escape or numb out

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