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Everything You Need to Know About Blackout Drinking
Worried about blackout drinking? Here is everything you need to know. This is a growing crisis for women.
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…
Denial Around Alcohol and What Exactly That Means?
Denial around alcohol, what exactly is that? You can now watch my video relating to this blog post on YouTube, simply click on the below image and it will take you there. Denial was a place I was at for a long time around alcohol. And we hear people say oh they are in denial around alcohol…
Why We Drink Alcohol When We Don’t Want To
What is it about alcohol that keeps us coming back for more? More often than we would like to and then having more of it than we want to. What is it about it? Well, I’m going to answer that question. At some point in time most of us have been in a position where…
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…
Alcohol: The 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…
Alcohol and Stress: Discover Why Alcohol Increases Stress
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,…