| Alcohol addiction is an epidemic and one of the great | | | | through this process to help you better understand |
| challenges that many people have to face daily. For | | | | the nature of the problem. |
| many drinking starts off as a social activity and | | | | In any addiction there are the following components. |
| because its so acceptable in our culture it can easily | | | | Firstly there is the craving (your need to drink), then |
| grow into a real problem without you fully realizing it. | | | | there is the "craver" (that is you), then there is that |
| When you get to the point where you are no longer | | | | which is craved (the alcohol). The important thing to |
| in control of your drinking habit, you have a problem | | | | realize is that none of these 3 elements is really |
| and if you don't get help it will only spiral out of | | | | "you". the real you, your real self or your other self |
| control. | | | | has nothing to do with any of those things. the |
| Addiction is a self reinforcing problem and the more | | | | drinking, the need to drink and the actual drink itself |
| you drink the more you want to drink. Someone | | | | are all just stuff that's out there in the world. |
| once described an addiction as never getting enough | | | | The reason why a spiritual approach to alcohol |
| of what you don't want. Think about that as you | | | | treatment works so well is because it helps you to |
| contemplate your own situation as it really brings | | | | transcend all 3 these components and helps you to |
| home the idea that you will never be able to drink | | | | re-connect with the real you. You can battle these 3 |
| "enough" and you will never get what you are | | | | elements all your life and never win, but when you |
| chasing with your drinking. | | | | go beyond them it can be a very uplifting experience |
| When you really stop and look at the components of | | | | that can help you leave alcohol addiction behind you |
| an addiction you can really start to help yourself. | | | | for good. |
| Many alcohol addiction programs will guide you | | | | |