Excessive Drinking and Binge Drinking

Take Control Over Alcohol

Is alcohol running your life and ruining your life? Do you find it too hard to cut back and stop when you want to? Do you need to take back control over your alcohol consumption and habits?

I work with so many people who enjoy a drink yet know they need to cut down. Although, in fact, many no longer even enjoy more than the first few sips or that initial first taste. The rest is just habit.

Alcohol impacts upon your health and can help you pile on the pounds. After a couple, you probably don’t want to do anything very productive or worthwhile. You might say or do things you regret and that you then feel guilty for, and apologetic about, afterwards. You fall asleep easily but your sleep quality is poor. You can wake up the next morning feeling a bit lethargic. And you may have found yourself caught on the ceaseless treadmill of habitually drinking in the evenings and weekends.

For many people, alcohol starts to take over their routine. You find yourself looking forward to a drink at the end of the day. Whether it is a stressful day, positive day or somewhere in-between, you easily find a reason to drink. One drink can then lead to another and you may struggle to find the off switch. You fall asleep easily but you know it isn’t good quality sleep. You wake up and feel the effects and get through the day. You probably already know you’ll drink again that evening. It becomes a habit of drinking too much and you struggle to make yourself stop for any length of time.

Whether you want to cut down your alcohol consumption, or you want to quit drinking completely, hypnotherapy can help you find the focus, motivation, persistence and control that you need to put you back in charge of what you drink, when you drink and how much you drink.

Is Your Drinking Habit A Problem? Excessive Alcohol Help

Is your drinking habit a problem? I’ve recently been helping a whole of bunch of people who have found that their drinking habit and excessive alcohol consumption has now become a problem.

Drinking alcohol is a pretty much accepted social norm even though more and more people are deciding to stop drinking. In fact, until relatively recently, not drinking at social occasions was often perceived as something unusual that required a strong reason behind it. As many people who have stopped or reduced drinking can testify, however, there are now a growing number of palatable non alcoholic options (Guinness Zero gets all sorts of rave reviews from clients who have switched to it to reduce their alcohol intake).

Your drinking habit may have started a long time ago. At first it may have just been something for social occasions or the odd drink as you unwind in the evening. Maybe you enjoy the taste and that feeling as the alcohol helps you relax after the busyness of the day. It could be that your life is stressful or that there was a time when you just needed something to help you deal with your thoughts, emotions and feelings. Whatever your history with drinking, at some point you have realised that your drinking habit has become a problem. Somewhere along the way it went from something you purposefully called upon for fun, enjoyment or relaxation, and became this pattern that you persistently fall into despite your determination to curtail it.

Of course, it is always up to you how much, and how often, you want to drink. Yet, with your habit, no matter what you tell yourself, it is almost like it isn’t really up to you anymore. You can find yourself having that drink (and the one after, and the one after that…) even when you’ve been telling yourself all day that you’ll have a night off the booze. You may be worried about your health, know it just isn’t good for you or it may be that those empty calories are putting pressure on your waistline in ways you don’t feel good about. Drinking too much can also lead to arguments, drain your energy for doing other things and interfere with getting a good night’s sleep.

Some people use alcohol to try and help them deal with stress and anxiety. And whilst alcohol may help you quieten those unwanted thoughts and feelings for a while, they generally come back with avengeance later on. You find yourself progressively more and more agitated, anxious and feeling low.

If your drinking habit has become a problem then it is certainly possible to take back control so that you have the freedom to enjoy an occasional drink when you choose but without the consumption levels that create such adverse impacts in your life.