Drinking is a very personal and often sensitive topic. The decision to accept drinking can be derived from various reasons where two types of health, emotional healing, often mixed. The reason is inherent in each individual and is formed by their experience. If someone chooses drinking alcohol, it can cause feelings to others who are struggling with alcohol.
All the stories of drinking are valid. I share my thoughts on my journey, and I know that my way may not look like you. My experience does not define drinking as a whole, and it does not reduce your consumption or invalidate it.
According to the data, there is an alcohol consumption in the United States. changing. Early New health advisory Alcohol consumption has been issued with an increase in cancer risks. Culturalally, our relationship with our drinking is expanding. This is what my drinking is today.
Relationship with alcohol
I am eighteen years old and at the first party party. I am a senior of high school. My friends and I hit it with the men who entered the third grade. I stand at the end of the swamp beer phone table and hold my red cup. Feared and liberated, I grab a lukewarm barrel of beer. Except for myself, no one could monitor or judge.
I was afraid of drinking, and my parents and long -term boyfriends were angry. I rarely saw my parents drinking except my dad’s night beer. It started out of the drinking culture observed by the Irish Dance Community. Drinking there was synonymous with everything. While traveling to Ireland in the early 90’s, I sat in a bar with my parents and caught my eyes to Guinness.
There is also a memory of my grandparents: Miller Light or butter Chardonnes, eat corn chips, card play. Their laughter is synonymous with my happy childhood, and is a kind of symbiosis that is rare, good, phenomenal, and worth it. The smell of both hops and salty chips today return home.
At the end of the 18th summer, beer showed different kinds of symbiosis. Beer in my hand was connected, security and confidence. It was a gateway to a comfortable comfort that suggested me for a lifetime.
When I entered the adult, I could not imagine the future.
The relationship with alcohol was dark. At the age of 25, I often black beyond the edges and led to the first marriage. But I always had a “off” switch. I was not worried that I would forget when it was enough.
Drinking drinks in their 30s had an unbearable time. We bought wine in large quantities during infectious diseases and initial parenting. Wine was a ritual every day.
Most of my social life was centered on alcohol. Wine as an activity. Wine as an integrated agent. JOE and I fell in love with drinks and I didn’t think about Martini on weekdays, so I had a friend who decided to get drunk. It was worrying and we thought we would lose contact. Thankfully, friendship was not lost in drinking.
I heard the stories of people who found themselves outside one intimate friendship, and others did not provide a seat at the dinner table, and were hurt by the vulnerability of friendship around the drink. Asking questions about life without alcohol, they open their eyes to a world that is as rich as all enhanced sensations related to alcohol.
The beer in hand was no longer a ticket. Drinking provided a way to access deeper connections.
The reason I quit drinking
This is the same. There was a health reason to quit. Then there was a deeper potential reason. When I quit alcohol in November, it was not compromised and was not announced, and it was driven by what I really did not understand at that time. I felt nothing because I was drinking less than I had.
Until a few weeks later, I understood that motivation came from the need for life. I wanted to reject what I didn’t know how to choose. I didn’t like it to build my life a little on the back burner and learn how to be with my own.
All of this was to create a space where you can experience all human emotions without a damper or distress. As I marked the new treatment trip for a year, I am moving forward to a big leap rather than solving the past. I can see my pattern and process it clearly.
I want to change the best opportunity.
Until a few weeks later, I understood that motivation came from the need for life. . . . All of this was to create a space where you can experience all human emotions without a damper or distress.
I felt a way not to drink
Many people have a complicated relationship with drinking, and they have to raise it from others. I try to be merciful. In any friendship, drinking was a big part of the way we dated historically, and I was worried about not being invited to things. But I like to be cold and still around the alcohol. I don’t have to be black and white.
The consciousness of drinking drinks is what I miss most. Not applicable, beer or cocktail. The most important part is to find too many non -alcohol options. I was enjoying Brewing,,, Hunger,,, Dried witand Heineken 0.0.
Future
I did not end until I ended up when I stopped drinking except to make the holiday cool.
After Christmas, I shared a drink with my friends while I was in Mexico. It was early to enter this gray area. The next day, the next day, the next day, the brain fog and irritability were shouted, and more than I wanted to experience. In this trial, it was clear that drinking better works better than “friendly” drinking.
That’s why I don’t keep drinking.
I realize that this period of alcohol is helping to adjust the relationship between distraction and avoidance. I do not imagine to refuse to drink alcohol indefinitely, but when I chose to drink alcohol, I am strengthening my missing pride for a while.
After all, I will not drink for a few weeks after deciding to drink a glass of wine again. I will probably identify “sometimes” drinking. But I don’t think about the future. No matter what happens, I will lead my body and intuition. We will see what is in the future.
Kate is the founder of WIT & Delight. She is currently learning how to do tennis and forever Test the boundaries of creative muscles. Follow her in Instagram @Witingdelight_.
