Episode #144: Them

Sometimes the process of becoming someone that doesn’t drink alcohol can feel like pumping air into a tyre made of Swiss cheese. Stop. Start. Stop. Start. I see a familiar pattern on Strive. People arrive. Sheepish. Over time, they gain confidence. They fit in. They check-in, help others and seek guidance. The motor is running. They are the hare. The rabbit no more. Then they drink. Shame. Guilt. They run to the hills. But here’s the thing. If you stay put, you will learn more from the drinking than you ever will from the running. There is so much value to be gained from interrogating what went wrong, at the moment. It's the Edison light bulb method of sobriety. I can't dress it up any other way - shame and guilt are about YOU. Strive is about THEM. If you drink and then show up with lipstick smeared all over your face, stinking like an ashtray, toilet roll stuck to your heel, we teach others how to fail, so they don't have to. The Truth About Alcohol We Are Not Alcoholic, And we Refuse to be Anonymous How We Quit Alcohol We serve and share in the heart of the Strive movement. We listen to The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast. We grow through the TTAA Life-Changing Experience. We learn and interact through The Alcohol Monologues. We are vulnerable at Radical Honesty. Radical Honesty: No More Masks is the newest experience from the Truth About Alcohol designed to help you learn to embrace vulnerability, a key criteria if you want to be someone that doesn't drink alcohol. https://www.thetruthaboutalcohol.co.uk/offers/hziD5dXL