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You still need a plan

You still need to have a plan, for several reasons:

  • You don’t want a situation to take you by surprise and knock you off balance and ruin your hard work.
  • You are on a journey that is about learning how to do things differently, without or with less alcohol. So now is as good a time as any to learn some new skills.
  • These skills will develop and grow with practice. Alcohol may be a temporary fix but the problem still remains. This is an investment in your long term resilience. In the future of you. 
  • You won’t always get things right first time. This is about experimenting and learning. So the sooner you start the more likely you are to hit on a winning formula.

This is where you can again use a WOOP to think through the tense, difficult or emotional people situations you come across.

Your plan can include having something to hand the moment an urge strikes, but also research into how to deal with situations that challenge you emotionally. How have other people coped? What are the skills that can help you change how you feel? How you can begin to take control of the situation that is created?