Posts by Michaela
How do I cut down or stop drinking?
If you find yourself with an alcohol problem. The question that you may well find yourself asking is what do I do about it? It’s helpful to understand some of the background, ok so I am motivated, so that means I am a motivated drinker, alcohol is addictive, ok I get all that, so what…
Read MoreThe Rise and Fall of Willpower
Willpower- and why it just does not work, when it comes to trying to stop drinking, stop smoking, stop overdoing all of those things that bring us down and bring us the misery in our life, the stresses and strains. Willpower just doesn’t work. As a highly motivated, high achieving, highly aspirational individual, you will…
Read MoreAlcohol and Stress: It might surprise you to learn that alcohol causes stress, and it doesn’t relieve it at all!
Do you find yourself drinking to alleviate feelings of stress and anxiety at the end of a busy day? You are by no means alone. It might surprise you to learn that alcohol causes stress, and it doesn’t relieve it at all! So how can that possibly be? There are several reasons for that. So,…
Read MoreAre you a High Achiever? Highly motivated towards your goals? Would you view yourself as a motivated drinker?
I’m guessing that you are a highly motivated individual, that you are motivated to achieve, motivated to have and motivated to goal. In many circumstances and occasions, you have achieved, you have met your goals. Whatever they might be. It’s likely that all have that has worked extremely well for you, a couple of hiccups…
Read MoreThe Alcohol Coach’s story
Have you ever had a time in your life when you knew that you had to make a change? This is the Alcohol Coach’s story, my story, of that time in life for me. It’s 2015, and I open my eyes to a gloomy, dark morning, I turnover to the right and there is a…
Read MoreHow it all started…How does alcohol become a problem in the first place?
How does alcohol become a problem for us in the first place? How do we fall into the alcohol trap? How do we become addicted? How does alcohol become a problem for us? How it all starts… It starts before we ever realise it…It starts before we ever know anything. It started for me, as…
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