Oh God! The agony I caused myself about what I ‘should’ do or ‘should’ be able to do! It was excruciating! I should be able to eat healthily without ending up with my head down the toilet. I should be able to have one glass of wine without wanting a second glass or a third…
Category: 100 Days without Alcohol
Day 92: Lesson 7 from quitting booze and sugar. Adopt a Growth Mindset.
At it’s most basic, a growth mindset is “the power of YET”. “I can’t do it,” becomes, “I can’t do it yet.” The idea is that with practice, anyone can do anything. Of course, if you’ve ever practiced something diligently without making any real progress, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Growth Mindset…
Day 91: Lesson 6 from quitting booze and sugar. Top up your motivation.
Almost all of my early attempts to quit drinking or change my relationship with food have failed. This time I am succeeding and I think some of that success comes from topping up my motivation on a daily basis. In the past, I wrote goals in journals and didn’t look at them again. I also…
Day 90: Lesson 5 from quitting booze and sugar. Exercise self-compassion.
My goodness! What a difference this made! I used to think that the harder I was on myself, the more likely I was to succeed. As much as I hated the mental beatings, they felt like a necessary evil. How was I ever going to get anywhere if I went easy on myself? I had…
Day 89: Lesson 4 from quitting booze and Sugar. Start where you can start.
I’m an all or nothing person. Or at least I was an all or nothing person. I’d set myself these crazy, lofty goals based on something I read in a book or heard in a podcast and tell myself, “If they can do it, I can do it.” More times than I care to admit,…
Day 88: Lesson 3 from quitting booze and sugar. Have a mantra.
I’ve never been one for mantras but wow! They’re pretty handy little things if you have good ones! I had two to help me when I quit drinking. Neither of them is original but as soon as I heard them, they really resonated with me. The first was from “The Unexpected Joy of being Sober”…
Day 87: Lesson 2 from quitting booze and sugar. Use your body to hack your mind.
I’m a serial over-thinker. Seriously. I can turn absolutely anything into a drama. At the moment, my stomach is in a knot about my daughter’s school Easter Egg Raffle! (I’d need a whole separate blog to explain that one but I’m fairly sure most of you would see why I’m concerned.) Anyway, the point is…
