Your Relationship with Alcohol, 5

Drinking is favored in boredom. There is an impulse to occupy quiet spaces. A resistance to risk letting your mind wander. Journal Prompts: Quiet means... When I am bored, I...

Your Relationship with Alcohol, 4

Alcohol can create the illusion of permission. Perhaps, it gives you the confidence to do or say things that you would otherwise find difficult. - Journal Prompts: Alcohol gives me permission to... The last time I did that without alcohol was...

Your Relationship with Alcohol, 3

Regulating emotions is a persistent motivation for alcohol use. Even if it is a net negative experience, alcohol can be still be quite dependable, which is to say, reinforcing. - Journal Prompts: The emotions I regulate with alcohol tend to be... I would love to put a barrier between me and feeling...

Your Relationship with Alcohol, 2

When alcohol becomes blind muscle memory rather than something you are present for, you might consider restructuring your pairing. If you always have alcohol with _____. Perhaps still do both, but separately. Unpairing empowers your awareness and disrupts the brain velcro to habits.

Your Relationship with Alcohol, 1

More than the number of drinks and how many days in a week you consume, the function of your drinking is arguably a more significant variable.

Change, 9

Your nervous system interprets change as a threat. It resists the lack of predictability. It responds, no thanks. - Journal Prompts: My nervous system has not become used to... I need the predictability of...

Change, 8

There are days it is unavailable to stomach change. If today is that day. Let it be. Rather than gathering sand with a toothpick, resign for the day. It is more important to know where you are at today and work from a place of your reality. You can try again tomorrow to merge with change. - Journal Prompts: Today it feels unavailable to... Today I need to resign from...

Change, 7

Or you live in resistance of change. You avoid and ignore. Scream defiance. Disassociate on demand.

Change, 6

Change feels fake. Cues around you claim there has been change, yet your body has not kept up with reality. The body separates on cue, instinctively it responds, but quickly whiplashed. You are again reminded, that’s not how it is anymore. _ Journal Prompts: My body still responds to... I experience whiplash when...

Change, 5

Change brings opportunity to re-evaluate what is sacred. It brings time into focus. It challenges your default settings. _ Journal Prompt: My default setting is to... The thing that is sacred that I am not doing...