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I Have an Alternative to AA That’s Gotten Thousands off Drinking
New York Post ^ | January 4, 2018 | Lauren Steussy

Posted on 01/04/2018 12:36:11 PM PST by nickcarraway

Up until about three years ago, Annie Grace would end her stressful workdays as a vice president of a global marketing company with a glass of malbec, filled to the top, often the first of five in her daily ritual.

By the time she tucked her two children into bed and kissed her husband good night, her teeth were purple, her breath was thick with the smell of booze and, often, an empty box of wine would be in the trash of their Evergreen, Colo., home. Some weeks, she and her husband would plow through 12 boxes.

“I was not the mom I wanted to be,” Grace, now 39, tells The Post. “I wanted to be giving my family the best of me and I was giving them the absolute worst.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: aa; addiction; alcoholism
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1 posted on 01/04/2018 12:36:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

A 20-year old drunk is a wild man, but a 40-year old drunk is just a drunk.


2 posted on 01/04/2018 12:42:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: nickcarraway

mind over matter...try that with diahrea

why-you-dont-need-aa-to-quit-drinking
I didn’t need AA to quit drinking...I did it every day for years.

Turns out, it’s not about quiting, it’s about not starting..I needed AA for that.


3 posted on 01/04/2018 12:42:17 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: nickcarraway
A couple more paragraphs get to the meat of it:

...she didn’t turn to Alcoholics Anonymous. She decided to do it all on her own, a process she details in her book, “This Naked Mind” (Avery).

...Grace researched alcohol’s ill effects and journaled about why she was drinking in an effort to dismantle the assumptions that she had made about the substance — that it was calming her nerves or making her more interesting. In fact, she found, it didn’t do any of that.

After a two-week period of withdrawal symptoms such as having trouble sleeping, night sweats, anxiety and restlessness, Grace became completely sober using her mind-over-matter technique.

The book tells you how to do it using will power is my guess.

4 posted on 01/04/2018 12:43:36 PM PST by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: nickcarraway

Whatever helps get a person off the booze addiction is a good thing.


5 posted on 01/04/2018 12:45:02 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: nickcarraway

My help with out AA was the same as with the smokes it all came down to $$$$


6 posted on 01/04/2018 12:45:56 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: House Atreides

Calling Steve Bannon

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3619470/posts


7 posted on 01/04/2018 12:47:02 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: nickcarraway

She achieved sobriety without AA. Good for her. But it has helped countless people, while her method has a proven track record of ... one.

AA doesn’t inflict “shame” on anyone. Far from it. And a lot of recovering alkies CAN’T touch even a single drop for fear of a relapse.

This woman is trying to improve on a product that has been very successful for longer than she’s been alive. I suspect it’s more for self-glorification than out of any altruistic imperative.


8 posted on 01/04/2018 12:49:17 PM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: House Atreides

amen.


9 posted on 01/04/2018 12:49:22 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: nickcarraway

Can I advertise here too?


10 posted on 01/04/2018 12:49:39 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall")
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To: nickcarraway

BOX of wine? Wine comes in BOXES????

What is it? like those little juice boxes with straws for a new generation??


11 posted on 01/04/2018 12:49:59 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: SW6906

Two weeks??? More like two days.


12 posted on 01/04/2018 12:51:55 PM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Chickensoup

Bigger, probably 3- 5 Liter boxes.


13 posted on 01/04/2018 12:53:52 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Chickensoup

3 liter boxes.

1.5 liter boxes.

Replaces the jug.


14 posted on 01/04/2018 12:54:41 PM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t believe in Alcoholism, just Compulsive Drinking. This disease stuff is off, but if it works keeping people sober, than I’m for it. That being said 5 briming glasses of wine? She must have got shnockered every night. A wine drunk has to be the worst drunk of all. I couldn’t drink 5 brimfulls in 5 hours if you promised to pay me but I’ve been known to put some Beefeater ‘n Tonic away


15 posted on 01/04/2018 12:55:11 PM PST by Fhios (1987: Where's Waldo -- 2017: Where's Jeff Sessions.)
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To: Chickensoup

“BOX of wine? Wine comes in BOXES????”

Assuming you’re serious (yes, I know what that means), I’m guessing you’ve not been in a liquor store in some time to see that lots of wine is offered in a box which holds a sealed bladder with a spigot for dispensing. Some of it is dreck while there are also some very drinkable offerings in a box. Two best things: easy storage in the refrigerator and air can’t get to the wine that’s left so oxidation-caused spoilage is a thing of the past.


16 posted on 01/04/2018 12:56:22 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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17 posted on 01/04/2018 12:58:08 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
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To: Chickensoup
BOX of wine? Wine comes in BOXES????

No, not a small juice box

18 posted on 01/04/2018 12:59:17 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: nickcarraway

I know a 44 Mag..


19 posted on 01/04/2018 12:59:25 PM PST by Davy Crocket
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To: nickcarraway

If I drank as much as some of these people I’d weigh north of 400 pounds.


20 posted on 01/04/2018 1:00:11 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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