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Trying to keep your resolutions while carrying old habits is like climbing a hill with a rucksack full of rocks. Stats don’t lie: by mid-January or Quitter’s Day, 75% of resolutions have already failed! By mid-February, only 12–15% survive. This year, lighten the load. Try the 7-day alcohol reset and see what happens when the weight is removed.

What are the 10 most commonly asked alcohol questions? Most men who are quietly questioning their drinking start the same way. They go looking for answers online. Reddit threads at midnight, Quora questions they'd never ask out loud, Google searches they clear from their history. The questions are usually the same. Am I drinking too much. Why can't I just moderate. How do I know if I actually have a problem. I spent some time researching the questions men ask most often about

Normalisation of Deviance", ‘The gradual process through which unacceptable practice or standards become acceptable. As the deviant behaviour is repeated without catastrophic results, it becomes the social norm..' Over time, as our drinking increases and our problems slowly increase, we accept it as the new normal within ourselves. Until we become aware our drinking ISN'T normal, ISN'T serving us, we cannot even envisage change. Then, one day we think to ourselves, usually i

The patriarchy trap, getting caught in traditional male gender roles, being the stoic provider, protector, fixer, advisor, manager, father, lover etc. How this type of modelling traps a lot of men into an idealistic role they don't always meet, leading to feelings of inadequacy or worse, fear of failure. Not living up to the stereotype, manifests with frustration and even anger. Throw in all the conversations around changing gender roles, pronouns and identity, creates more

There seems to be a common belief that you have to hit a rock bottom before you can even consider making a change to your drinking when alcohol begins to have negative impacts in your life. The notion you have to be at that point of losing or having lost everything before you can try to claw your way back to sobriety. The truth is, waiting for that moment can be dangerous and even counterproductive for some people. Kind of like "I'll give up xxx when.. (insert condition)" typ

If you are like I was, a long term binge drinker you may not even be aware that all your day to day experiences are more than likely being filtered and dumbed down by the effects of what's going on in your brain. As vision is your primary sense, its like you are living with glass bottomed goggles on. Say what? Yep, your brain can anticipate the ingestion of alcohol and compensate for it, damping down the artificial buzz alcohol gives you. The effect over time is make everythi