Tools for Intentional Living – Dr. J. Nickens

… is easy.  Remember, it’s moving!! 

So you have to hold on.  And that can be hard.

How many times have you promised yourself that you would cut back your drinking after a particularly dramatic event that was embarrassing or humiliating for you?  Or perhaps for someone who you say you care about?  Have you left someone emotionally wounded with hateful words or actions?   Perhaps you don’t even know… can’t remember, but have a vague sense that you have hurt someone beyond measure by saying or doing the meanest thing you could think of at the time.  

Or maybe you have wounded yourself with injuries self-inflicted accidentally or purposely while intoxicated beyond control?  Because Life is not static, not fixed in a moment in time or in memory, it’s important to remain resilient and determined to meet each day’s challenges with an intentional and positive attitude, including when your personal challenge is alcohol addiction.  Many clients have told me the old not-so funny joke – with a wry yet sad smile on their faces:  “Yes, I’ve stopped drinking.  Many times!” 

If this is true for you, then start work to realize the truth of your addiction and your destruction of your own life and the lives of those you claim to hold dear.  Seek help to accept this truth, confront it and ultimately to overcome it so that you can transform it into another more enlightened, joyous, productive and loving truth. 

You will see the change in the eyes and hear it in the voices of the people you know and meet.

And, you will see it in your own eyes when you look into the mirror.

Reclaim your life, and also the love of those around you.

 Yes You Can.