10 principles to quit drinking
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10 Principles to Quit Drinking
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
Why a course on 10 principles? › There is a lot of preconceived / incorrect /
backwards thought around alcohol, alcohol addiction, and sobriety — what “successful” recovery “should” look like (i.e., perfect), what sobriety looks like (i.e., boring).
› This informs our belief system.
› Our belief system informs the process.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
Who is this for?
Anyone who is examining their relationship with alcohol.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
What you’ll learn
This is formerly what I used as the orientation material for Tempest Sobriety School. The guiding light, the foundation, etc.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
It’s a really, really big deal that you are here.
Why you are ahead
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Who am I? › Holly Whitaker
› Founder and CEO, Tempest, The Temper, and Tempest Sobriety School.
› Sobriety coach who has worked extensively with individuals and groups to break addiction to alcohol.
› Author of a soon-to-be-published memoir and self-help book, Quit Like a Woman (December 2019).
› Kundalini yoga instructor and meditation instructor.
› Loves Rome, coffee, jazz, sleep, and Mary-Katherine (the cat, not Molly Shannon).
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
Before we begin… a bit about addiction.
Addiction is anything we do repeatedly to relieve pain, despite negative consequences. An aggressive neurobiological feedback loop, “pathological over-learning.”
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
Before we begin… a bit about addiction.
Two-part problem:1 - What drives us to it. 2 - What keeps us stuck in it.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
Before we begin… a bit about addiction.
It is not unintelligent to abuse alcohol or other substances or behaviors. We’ve been doing the best we know how.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
› Breaking addiction requires a holistic approach to treat underlying drivers + the addiction itself concurrently.
› This is a class focused on how to deal specifically with one very big aspect of breaking addiction — our core beliefs about the process.
This class is not on breaking addiction.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
10 Principles to Quit Drinking
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
1. Healing & extremeself-care. This is aboutlearning to motherourselves.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
2. Fear is great!
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
3. Death By 1,000 Cuts(Aka perfection is thedeath of success.)
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
4. You don’t have to doeverything but you haveto do the work.(And yes, it’s hard.)
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5. Willingness is the way!
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
6. It’s about findingyour real power.Not giving it up.
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7. Surrender.
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8. It’s not about notbeing able to dosomething. It’s aboutknowing what youcan’t f*** with.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
9. Try EVERYTHING!Show up Empty!Then Decide!
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10. Trust your gut.Not other people’sopinions.
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11. Life practice.Not life sentence.
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12. This is yourgreat adventure.
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Of most importance...
You can do this.The secret sauce is in the showing up for yourself time and again. There is nothing different about you in this way — those who succeed are the ones
who own it and work it and keep on stepping forward no matter what.
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10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
Why It’s So Hard To Get Sober
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
Why It’s So Hard to Get Sober
1. The wrong core beliefs areguiding us.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
Why It’s So Hard to Get Sober
2. We don’t have a holistic plan toaddress all the parts of us thatneed healing.
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
Why It’s So Hard to Get Sober
3. We try to fix everything all atonce.
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Why It’s So Hard to Get Sober
4. We can’t find sober communityor role models.
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Why It’s So Hard to Get Sober
5. We want to be raised up insteadof broken down.
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How Tempest Sobriety School Helps
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How Sobriety School Can Help
1. Daily mantras to empower you
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2. A personalized holistic recoverymap to address all of you, inyour full complexity
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How Sobriety School Can Help
3. Weekly lessons on key topics toreframe common beliefs aboutsobriety
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4. Teaching Assistants who canprovide firsthand expertise ongetting and staying sober
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5. Group processing calls to shareboth wins and frustrations withyour peers
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6. Weekly Q & As with Holly andother instructors to dig deeperinto different aspects of sobriety
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7. Optional Accountability Coachingto help you prioritize your owncurrent and future goals
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How Sobriety School Can Help
8. Access to our ongoing AftercareExperience following the coreeight-week TSS program
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To learn more, go to jointempest.com/school
Thank you!
10 PRINCIPLES TO QUIT DRINKING
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