Note to self! (see Title!)
My LPP Coach (see link in right margin), wrote in her Feedback to me from Module 3 that I am grieving. She is right.
I guess I have been grieving my entire life.
Well, this too shall pass --- eventually --- maybe not in this lifetime.
Big triggers for me yesterday.
But I definitely won't be bringing into the house any more alcohol than I plan on drinking for a drinking day!
As a former CultAA Nazi, that part of me is trying to berate me and beat me up mercilessly and wanting me to hate myself for drinking too much yesterday --- as if it's not quite normal --- as if most people don't do it once in a while!
I choose instead to love myself through the hangover, and compliment myself for continuing on.
I still believe I'm fully capable of changing.
With The Intention Of Achieving Balance And Control Over Drinking And Being Fully Deprogrammed From CultAA--which I am learning to forgive, and let go of. Research teaches us that 1 out of 3 people are problem drinkers, but 90% of problem drinkers are Not Alcoholics and can change.
My Drinking History: Over four decades of mostly problem drinking, five drunken-related arrests in my 20s (the early 80s), of abstinence and binge-drinking, of trying moderation and usually-or-often failing, of being immersed in almost every other recovery group out there, but of being mostly sober.