Navigating the Path to Freedom : Why You Need an Alcohol Freedom Coach

Fair question. Most men assume that if they're going to change their drinking, all they need is enough determination. Build the mindset, change the behaviour, hold the line. Job done.

It always starts well. The decision feels clean. The reasons are clear. The pain of continuing outweighs the pain of stopping and that's usually enough to get through the first few days.

Then the internal battle begins.

Not drinking makes you miserable. But the thought of drinking also makes you miserable. The conscious mind says it's done with alcohol. The subconscious mind says alcohol is essential, familiar, necessary. These two voices argue constantly and the energy required to keep the conscious mind winning eventually runs out. You drink again. Shame sets in. You resolve to try harder. You get back on the wagon.

Rinse, repeat, recycle. It is physically, mentally and emotionally wearing.

I know this because I lived it for nearly nine years. Alcohol free from 2007, white knuckling my way through it, believing things about myself and alcohol that simply were not true. Back then there was really only one resource widely available, AA's big blue book. The whole premise built around willpower, day by day, hour by hour, with the overriding belief that you are powerless over an insidious disease that only you seem to have.

Being powerless to use willpower. Seems like an oxymoron when you say it out loud.

I drank again in 2016. It wasn't until I started understanding the actual science behind drinking, what alcohol does in the brain, how habits form around it, why the subconscious holds onto it so tightly, that everything shifted. Once I understood what had kept me miserable for nine years, I stopped feeling like I was missing out. The desire for alcohol quietly left. I've been alcohol free since 2021 and the conversation with alcohol is just finished.

"The desire for alcohol quietly left."

That understanding is what a coach shortcuts for you.

A coach doesn't teach or preach. They walk alongside you and help you see the things that aren't apparent from where you're standing. They give you a space to work through what's actually going on, not just what you think is going on. They help you examine the subconscious beliefs that are working against your conscious intentions, because that's where most men get stuck. Not for lack of willpower. Because the belief that alcohol is doing something useful for them hasn't actually changed.

When that belief changes, everything else follows.

You could do this alone. Some men do. But the path is longer and the same day ones keep appearing. That understanding is what a coach shortcuts for you. And it's why you need an alcohol freedom coach who has lived in the terrain, not just studied it.

What's my qualification? I'm a Certified This Naked Mind Coach since 2023 but I consider my most valuable to be two drinking careers worth of lived experience that no qualification covers.

"two drinking careers worth of lived experience"

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