Episode 170: A World Without Wine

By the end of today, I would have written five articles about poker. I wrote my first back in 2009 a few months after becoming someone that doesn't drink alcohol. That first article, about my ex-wife coming home drunk and destroying my poker game, wasn’t of the same quality as the ones I write, today. I am an overall better writer. I understand structure more, I have developed a unique style, and I have a better grasp of the roles that tension, connection and emotion play in my pieces. How did this happen? It happened slowly, over time, drip by drip. I wrote an article and made a few mistakes. I wrote another one and made a few more. Then a few more. Later today, I will make more mistakes, but at the end of it, I would have grown as a writer. How do you deal with stressful situations without wine? The same way. You learn to deal with them, slowly, over time, drip by drip. We cannot grow without pain and suffering. I am a better husband because of my divorce. I am a better father because I shouted at my daughter last night. I am a better writer because of the mistakes I made writing this. If you keep drinking wine as a way of hiding from your stressful situations, then you won't grow, and without this growth, you will never learn to experience stressful situations without wine. If you want to learn more about this topic, then you're in luck, because that's what we talk about in today's episode. Check it out. The Truth About Alcohol We Are Not Alcoholic, And we Refuse to be Anonymous January Taster Claes, Rhonda, Mark, Phil and Elsa are on Day 13 of the December Taster, and this is how Claes is feeling about his enrollment. "I´m very impressed with both the content & exercises and the support within the group this December Taster; I want to thoroughly recommend anyone who wants to be someone who doesn´t drink alcohol, feels the need to educate or simply questions their consumption to take part in this experience!" The January Taster begins on Tuesday, 1st. If you want to join us and get to feel what it's like to have no alcohol in your system for a month, then here is the link: https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/p/TTAA%20Taster