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Are you concerned about your current levels of alcohol consumption, and how it’s affecting your life?
How is alcohol affecting your life? If you are: an executive, high performer, high level highly motivated individual, in the workplace, who is concerned about alcohol. The fact that you may be drinking too much. It’s affecting your performance, it’s affecting your motivation, your energy levels, your self-esteem, it’s affecting the way you influence others…
Things to Keep in Mind When Considering Alcohol Detox at Home
Typically, detox is the initial step in treating alcohol use disorder or alcoholism. Detoxification permits the body to acclimatize to the absence of alcohol. You or a loved one may be contemplating alcohol detox at home, but doing so can be dangerous. Typically, alcohol detox occurs in a hospital, detox facility, or alcohol rehabilitation clinic.…
Staying Fine Without a Glass of Wine Every Night
Life continually upends us at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways. When this occurs, we also learn strategies to relax and cope with these issues. Numerous studies have already demonstrated that having a glass of wine every night is not at all ‘harmless,’ even though this is one of the most…
Nightcap and Goodnight’s Sleep: Does Drinking Alcohol Before Bed Affect Sleep
Alcohol is a depressant of the central nervous system that slows brain function. Alcohol has sedative effects that can create feelings of relaxation and sleepiness, therefore drinking around bedtime may result in a restful night’s sleep. However, excessive alcohol consumption has been associated with poor sleep quality and duration. Those who regularly consume alcohol before…
Looking for Ways on How to Stop Drinking Alcohol? Here are 5 Easy Ways!
Most people agree that drinking is a social activity and a way to deal with stress, but it’s more than just a temporary way to feel better. There are many reasons why you might want to stop drinking alcohol. It could be because of your health, your relationships, or just because you want to. No…
Everything You Need to Know About Blackout Drinking
During festivities, many people will exclaim, “Let’s drink until we pass out!” In recent years, this has prompted numerous individuals to drink to the point of blacking out, an act that has earned prominence in popular culture. Alcohol-induced blackouts can impair recollection of events that occurred while intoxicated and dramatically raise the risk of injuries…
Boozing Up? How Does Alcohol Affect Your Marriage?
Alcohol consumption is prevalent among married couples, yet, like cereal with pineapple juice, alcohol with marriage can dissolve a union or drive a chasm between its members. Addiction damages relationships in a variety of ways because it causes the addict to prefer alcohol above all else. When a person has agreed to share their house,…
Baby Fat or Beer Belly? : Does Alcohol Make You Gain Weight Fast
Not happy with the number that comes up on your scale? Hold up! It might not be because of what you ate last night, but because of what you drank. There are no nutrition labels on alcoholic drinks like there are on other foods. The food police could complain about too much sugar, fat, or…
5 Tips in Rebuilding Trust After Addiction
Throughout the course of their alcoholism, people lose time, self esteem, energy, sometimes jobs and even relationships. They lose money, weight, independence, and employment. And eventually, they lose the trust of their friends and family. Trust must be gained, which makes it all the more difficult to reclaim. There are no shortcuts to rebuilding trustworthy…
Hangover Headache: How Alcohol Traps Us In A Cycle
So how does alcohol work in terms of the way it gets us caught then we are trying to get out and we can’t see how to get out and sometimes we don’t even realise that we are trapped. You can now watch my video relating to this blog on YouTube. Simply click on the…