¶ Introduction to Stop Drinking Podcast
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast , where we help you make stopping drinking a simple , logical and easy decision . We help you with tips , tools and strategies to start living your best life when alcohol-free . If you want to learn more about stop drinking coaching , then head over to wwwsoberclearcom . Listen . If this happens , you need to stop drinking alcohol now .
You can't put it off any longer
¶ The Shift from Benefit to Harm
. So what happens when we start drinking alcohol is we gain something from it . Otherwise we wouldn't continue doing it . Right ? You're not going to continue touching a hot stove . We touch it once when we were a child and then we never touched the hot stove again . But with alcohol at the beginning , we feel like we gained something from it .
Maybe it helps us loosen up with our friends , right ? Maybe it helps us relax after a hard day of work . Maybe for some of us , myself included , it helps us escape our problems Rather than deal and fix and struggle and fight with things . We have a drink and we get that instant relief . That's how it starts .
But there's a shift that happens in every single drinker's life and when it happens , you must stop drinking alcohol . Now , a very quick introduction my name is Leon Sylvester . I'll get to that shift in a second . But if you want help stopping drinking , what you need to do is click the link in the description .
There'll be a very short video that you can watch that explains , like , how I work with people , my new method , how it works in as little as 48 hours , how it gets a 92 to 97% success rate . If you want to see that , click the link in the description . You can watch the short video , then book a call and see if working together could be a good match .
But let me get back to the point . So , like I said at the beginning , we get a benefit from drinking . Something good happens , but there's a shift that always happens . I don't know if you've ever noticed this , but have you ever met somebody that drinks less over time ? Right , they start in age 18 , 19 , drinking a bottle of vodka a day and then , by age 40
¶ The Right Time to Quit
, they drink one glass of wine once a month . You ever heard of that ? Me neither . Why ? Because it doesn't exist . Drinking alcohol is something that increases over time , and here's a bit of shock news for you but the longer you drink a poisonous substance for , the more damage it does , not only mentally , but also physically as well .
So the longer we drink , the more negatives that start happening . For some of us that's weight gain , for some of us that's lethargy , for some of us it's just feeling terrible about ourselves . And then for others it's worse .
It's cancer , right , it's cirrhosis of the liver , it's a DUI , it's our wife walking out on us , it's our kids never talking to us again . The more we drink , the bigger the problems become . So when should you stop drinking alcohol ? Well , what you need to see is that when we start drinking alcohol , we get perceived benefits .
There's no question about it but those benefits are so short-lived . We gain something for maybe the first few weeks , first few months , maybe the first year , but it's a slippery , slippery slope that only goes downwards and all you need to do is play it out . Just think about it for a second .
If the benefits have been slowly disappearing and the negatives have been increasing , what do you think is starting to happen ? Well , things are getting worse . They're not getting better , and for me and my journey during the 10 years that I drank , for I got to a place where there was literally no benefit to consuming alcohol anymore .
It was purely drug addiction , just to get rid of the negatives . And the negatives were caused by alcohol in the first place ? Listen , if you're one of those people that's still in that honeymoon phase where you're enjoying your drink and it's helping you listen , this video is not for you .
But the moment you start seeing negatives , start asking yourself where is this going ? If you're getting fatter , do you think you're all of a sudden going to get a six pack ? If you keep drinking , do you think if your wife's upset with you , she's all of a sudden going to forgive you ? It doesn't work like that because we drink more .
That's how addiction works . We don't drink less over time , we drink
¶ Why Only Good Things Follow Sobriety
more . See , the best time to stop drinking alcohol is yesterday , but we can't do anything about yesterday . The best time to stop drinking alcohol is always now . It's just that there's always a better time , right , we've always got a better time after the holidays , after the wedding , after the christening , whatever , right . There's always a better time to do this .
But the real answer is the best time to stop drinking alcohol is now . It's not to wait until those negatives are just so far down that you're in the gutter , like I was when I stopped drinking alcohol . I had no money , I had no business , I had no relationship . My family were pissed off with me .
I was living in a shared house , I was at ground zero and I had no choice . Why wait to get there ? Why wait to get ? So you've got no choice . See , if you could just ask yourself what is alcohol even doing for me in the first place and you can come to a real , logical answer . You'll come to the same answer as I did . Alcohol gives you nothing .
And by stopping drinking alcohol , guess what happens ? Only good things . Only good things come from not poisoning your body . Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking Podcast by Sober Clear . If you want to learn more about how we work with people to help them stop drinking effortlessly , then make sure to visit wwwsoberclearcom .
