Dear Reader…
We are living in challenging times, and as a result so many
more of us are drinking more alcohol. We think it’s OK, normal and we call it
the social drug, but we rarely consider that it is a highly addictive drug. When
many of us find ourselves aware that we have a problem, be it a wine o’clock,
or weekend problem, we find that when we try to cut down or stop, we can’t.
You can get smart about alcohol,
and you can get control over it. But before you can outsmart anything, you need
to understand it. In the game of psychological warfare, knowledge is ammunition,
and knowledge is power.
But wait a minute.
Surely, if there’s a problem with alcohol, then it’s the
people who drink too much of it that have a problem. After all, isn’t the term
‘alcohol abuse’ aimed at the uncontrolled drinker and not the drink
itself.
We all know that it’s alcoholics
on park benches drinking meths from bottles in paper bags who have a problem.
We know it’s them who need to go to weekly AA meetings and sit in a circle
proclaiming their acquiescence to a lifelong disease and affliction that they
battle in misery to control because they were born with some dodgy genes.
We know that we’re different and
our kind of drinking belongs in a different world. Ours is a world of grown-up
laughs, sophisticated choices, and wine o’clock normality.
We’ve all grown up knowing that
drinking alcohol is the golden ticket to adulthood and more alluring than a
first kiss. We spent the early years of drinking, proving we could drink like
fishes, building up tolerance, and working hard for the badge of being a proper
grown up alcohol drinker.
We learned that drinking is the
multi-tasking doer of all things: it relaxes, relieves boredom, gives a whoop
of joy, helps get over an argument, deals with our stress, fills our hours,
brings us our friends, make social occasions fabulous, helps us throw off our
clothes in the bedroom, makes us happy, makes us interesting, and the life and
soul of the party.
We know all these things. Or we
think we do. So why on earth would we need to outsmart it, when it does so much
for us, our family, our friends, and everyone we know?
Because if it really did all
those things, and there were no consequences, then it would be awesome, it
really would. The problem is, as we all know, that if anything seems too good
to be true, then it usually is. And alcohol is no exception. Yet virtually
every drinker genuinely believes in a long list of benefits that alcohol brings
them.
Nearly 5 years ago, I unravelled
the mystery of alcohol for myself, and in 2019 I founded The Alcohol Coach to help others to
unravel it as well. The
Alcohol Con, How To Outsmart It is my first non fiction book, and my first as
The Alcohol Coach. It hit the Amazon bestsellers in the first week of
pre-launch sales and I hope that it both inspires and supports many people and
their friends to break free.
About the Book
Is drinking having a negative effect on your life? You are not alone!
Millions of strong-minded, capable people find themselves falling victim to the biggest con trick of our time – alcohol!
It lures us with false promises of fun and social acceptability. Instead we find ourselves caught in a cycle of drinking, hangovers, morning regret, and guilt.
Despite being successful in other areas of life, it seems difficult to change our drinking habits. In the face of alcohol it’s easy blame ourselves, and believe we are unable to exercise self-control.
In this ground-breaking book, The Alcohol Con is exposed, and unraveled with insight and humour. Drawing on her own experience, and with a background in science and professional coaching, Michaela Weaver paves the way for you to outsmart the alcohol con, break free and move forward to a bright new sober future.
ORDER YOUR COPY
Amazon → https://amzn.to/3f16YRG
About the Author
As a TEDx speaker, author, masters qualified coach, science graduate and professional woman, you would think that with all that I’d know better than to find myself addicted to alcohol and stuck in a ‘wine o’clock, weekend binge’ drinking cycle.
But I have since learned how and why we become addicted to alcohol, and how to change that.
I now help women to learn about alcohol, revolutionize their relationships with alcohol and skip, run and jump into a thriving life without alcohol dragging them down.
You’re not weak, incapable or out of control, but maybe like millions of others you were lured in and fell for a highly addictive and insidious drug.
WEBSITE & SOCIAL LINKS:
Website: www.thealcoholcoach.com
Facebook: facebook.com/thealcoholcoach
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