Making positive choices

Alcohol addiction can be loud, it can be obvious; vodka for breakfast, passing out drunk, hiding ‘the shakes’ that everyone sees. It can also be quiet, sneakier; ‘needing’ the after-work drink, agreeing to - but not seeing through - a weekend off the booze, impatience, irritability.

Moderation

If you can see yourself in the quiet kind and want to change your relationship with alcohol or moderate your consumption, coaching can help.

You may be frustrated that your ‘willpower’ is not enough, that you find it hard to say no to certain people. Maybe you just deserve a treat after a hard day at work, the trouble is that most days are hard days. Perhaps you just want to feel a bit better in the mornings.

Within the structure of our coaching relationship, we begin to establish a way to help you make positive choices. We will identify the things worth keeping from your existing system and new things to introduce into your life, that will form the foundations of a different type of system; one that is healthy, supportive and helps you thrive.

Sobriety

If you have been working on the loud kind and have begun to make some of those changes, huge congratulations to you.

While in the depths of addiction, you likely found yourself reliant on a system that did not work for you; patterns of your own repeating behaviours, coping mechanisms that hinder rather than help, poor relationship choices, life decisions you would change, in environments that are unstable or, at the very least, unhelpful.

Having begun to move away from that system, within the structure of our coaching relationship we will start to find a new one, one that is forward-focused, one that can help you achieve some of your goals and meet your aspirations for the future.

I work with clients who want to moderate and change their relationship with alcohol, and clients who have progressed through a recovery programme and want to build for the future. If you are physically dependent on alcohol, I encourage you to seek clinical support.

If you would like to find out more about my approach and experience, just get in touch for a no-obligation introductory conversation.