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We don't have to hit rock bottom, we're allowed to want something different and we can CHOOSE to improve our lives from this point onwards.
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Hello darling heart and to the drink less, live better podcast.
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This is the podcast that helps you to see that drinking less doesn't need to be stressful, lonely, or boring.
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I'm your host, Sarah Williamson, and I decided to have a year alcohol free as a little life experiment and haven't looked back.
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With my experience in training, I now help other people with their alcohol free or drink less adventures.
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You can find out more and sign up to my 5 day drink less challenge at drink less, live better.com.
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I'm here to tell you that you can relax, connect, and have fun without alcohol in your life.
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Join me here each week to find out how. Forever.
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Forever is a big concept, isn't it? It's a long time.
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It's from now until the very end and then that's it.
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If you're going to commit to evering something that's going to be a pretty big deal.
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Some would say only 3 things continue forever: faith, hope and love and you've probably been told the greatest of these is love. That might be true.
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Is there anything that lasts longer than forever?
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Well the definition of 'without ever ending' probably means that it is completely eternal.
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Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland has a different view.
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Alice asks him, how long is forever?' The rabbit replies, sometimes just one second, and I think that's a great response.
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Do we have to be sober or alcohol free forever?
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No, not if it then makes it hard to even begin or to last just this week.
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If forever is too high a bar then please, please let's lower the bar.
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When we commit to something forever it's usually out of massive faith, hope and love, and I'm not entirely sure that choosing
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to be alcohol free or to stop drinking is always done out of faith, hope or love in the first place.
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I know that my choice felt like it has been made out of a choice for better physical and emotional well-being. 3 and a bit
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years down the line I'd happily tell you there was self love, blind faith and a whole load of hope tied up in that decision,
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but I couldn't have said that right at the beginning.
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I chose a 1 year experiment in the first place.
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I didn't want to say I was never drinking again or I was done forever because that felt too uncomfortable, and I wanted my
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choice to be as frictionless as possible.
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I also didn't want to start my experiment saying I was going to go one day at a time because then that felt like I'd have
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to make a decision every single day, and I didn't want to do that either.
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All of this is just to ask you what feels good?
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Does the concept of forever feel expensive and safe? Does it fit with your values?
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Are you someone who faithfully keeps promises to themselves no matter what?
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Do the ideas of self love, blind faith, and hope fuel you?
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If they do, then go for it.
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Use the word forever, freely and liberally. I am never drinking again. I am done with alcohol forever.
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I am alcohol free now for the rest of my life.
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This sober lifestyle is my forever choice.
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Embrace truly the wording that feels good to you.
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And if forever feels a bit scary at the moment that's okay too. Use what fits now.
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You can always change your words again at a later date.
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My original goal was 1 year alcohol free and then 500 days then 2 years then 1000 days then 3 years and all sorts of random
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targets in between, like double digit zeros or 3 years, 3 months, 3 days, or whatever else looked nice.
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My new goal will probably be 4 years, I guess.
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Forever, I may well be able to say it freely at some point in the future.
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It is true that I cannot think of one single good reason why I'd ever have a drink again.
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Please check out the show notes on this or any other podcast episode.
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You'll see the link to a hidden podcast episode to help you with your 5 PM cravings, and you'll be able to read about my one to one coaching programme. Thank you for listening in today.
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Please come back again next week and, p s, I believe in you.
