Do You Believe You Can Drink Less?

Welcome back to Thinking about Drinking Thursday, where we discuss tools to help you drink less.  If you are a highly functioning gal who has decided to just cut back on your drinking - this is for you.  If you have been saying you want to drink less, but haven't been successful I want to help by sharing some tools with you.  

You want to cut back on drinking but do you really believe that is possible?  A little less Pinot G - really?  Yes, really.  You will need to create new beliefs in order to accomplish this goal, and once you do so on purpose, you will blow your own mind.  

First, become aware of what you currently believe - especially about yourself.  You may not even realize sentences like - I can’t do that, I’m not good at this, or I’ve always had a hard time, are really just thoughts.  These thoughts come from past beliefs, and are often confused as facts.  

Next, look at how you feel when you think these thoughts.  When I work with clients who have similar thoughts they feel defeated.  Typically that feeling makes them want to drink more in order to not feel the negative.   These thoughts will disempower your ability to create new thoughts, and a new future.  When you continue to loop these types of thoughts it’s almost as if you fail in advance.  

The final step is to recognize these are optional thoughts, and decide to change your mind on purpose, and develop new beliefs that move you in the direction to drink less.  If you want to create a new future you must create something that doesn’t exist from your past.  You must create a new belief and you know what - you can believe whatever you want to believe!  Shocking I know, but true.  

It is important to also be aware at this point you will have two conflicting thoughts - one says you need the wine to be fun, the other says you are amazing on your own.  Think of the first thought like a super highway - easy to think and appears quite quickly.  The new thought is more like a bumpy country road.  It will feel odd at first, make time some time, but as you practice it will eventually get so much smoother.  So often people will just stay with the one they know because it is comfortable, and their lives never change.   You must decide on purpose which one to believe.  

Imagine you can actually believe you are funny and amazing without the wine.  It may be challenging at first because you have told yourself for so long its the wine that makes you so charming, but once you start practicing the new thought, repeating it, practicing, repeating, you may actually see how truly amazing you are!  

Each week I offer 2 free mini sessions, first come first serve, to women who have had weight loss surgery and find themselves still struggling with food, or have developed a new struggle with overdrinking.  If you want to feel more in control and peaceful  Sign up here to discuss how my program may help you.  Once you sign up you will receive a call in number and appointment reminder.  Some may not be a fit, and that is fine - I consider it a privilege to offer free help in advance.