How To Survive The First 30 Days Booze Free
You decided to break off your relationship with alcohol! Welcome to the other side, the lighter, brighter side my friend! It takes 21 days to form a habit and 3 months to form a lifestyle. The first 30 days are crucial to setting the tone for your recovery
The first thing you need to realize is that it’s not going to be easy. You’re going to fight battles that you’ve been avoiding for far too long. I’ve been on the hamster wheel of relapsing and starting over, for 10 years to be exact! Once I wrapped my head around going booze-free and saw its true value, my life has exploded with possibility.
Here are 4 ways you can make it through your first 30 days of sobriety:
Ask Yourself Why
Actionable tool: Get out your journal and try to think of as many reasons why you should stop drinking today. There’s no right or wrong answer. There’s never a right or wrong answer to journal about. Once you’re more clear on why you want to stop drinking, you’ll be able to refer back to that for motivation through your first few weeks.
Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork
Finding an accountability partner in some shape or form is one of my top tips for staying sober. There’s the option to get a sober buddy, or a sobriety coach to check in with you and help talk it out on a regular basis. Don’t forget to find someone and let them know you’re not drinking and to hold you accountable for your goal.
Get major accountability with group coaching. Join a small group of like-minded women and feel the power of coaching and community coming together. With a healthy dose of actionable tools, theory, exercises, and group discussions this is a perfect space to heal and go booze-free once and for all. Join your crew today.
Alternatives Make The World Go Round
If drinking every day is something you plan your day around, then we need to talk. Let’s talk about how to replace those habits. Let’s say your nightly routine consists of pouring yourself a glass of wine when you start cooking dinner and finishing that bottle is on your to-do list. We could use this as an opportunity to drink something else, literally anything else. You could spruce it up a bit with fresh fruit or try some sparkling water. A healthy substitute is always the goal!
Get off Autopilot
85% of your daily routine is out of habit. We need to make changes if we want to get changes. Would you stop at a liquor store on your way home? Start small by changing the route you take home from work or school. Use this time of sobriety to dig into something you’ve always been passionate about or interested in, but never “had the time” to do before. You’ll be surprised how much free time you’ll have when you’re not drinking or hungover.
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