A common quandary of nearly everyone who wants to give up alcohol or any other addiction for that matter is timing. When is the right time to quit? And the refrain in our head goes something like this: No point quitting next week because it is my friend’s barbecue. After all it is summer and there will be lots of other barbecues coming up and plus a cold beer tastes really good on a hot day. The fall is not a good time either; too close to Thanksgiving. I absolutely cannot quit during Xmas and New Years. Next March may be a possibility – but that is a long way off, so no point thinking that far ahead. Your reasoning may not be exactly the same, but you get my meaning.
It is true than in order to quit or moderate drinking you need to decide. You need to make a decision and take some action. However, thinking that you can pick some day in the future and say – that is the day I am quitting – will not work. The day you absolutely have to stop or change your pattern of drinking is the day that you have a “moment of clarity”. A moment of clarity is a very small window of time in which the real you surfaces, the insanity of the addiction is held at bay, and there is a clear message in your brain that you must do something about your drinking or your addiction. That is the exact moment that you stop everything else you are doing and run for help. That is the moment that you throw everything you can at the addictive behavior – every resource that you know about.
If you choose to miss this window of opportunity you are taking a huge risk. You do not know when, if ever, you will have another such moment. When the moment of clarity ends, and you have taken no action, the addiction will swallow you up once more. The addiction never wants you to stop.
If you are reading this, you may be having a moment of clarity right now.
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Deborah C Morrow is a personal coach for people who want to moderate or stop their alcohol addiction.
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