Sean Alexander - Sober On A Drunk Planet: Giving Up Alcohol. The Unexpected Shortcut to Finding Happiness, Health and Financial Freedom

Sober On A Drunk Planet:
Giving Up Alcohol
The Unexpected Shortcut To Finding Happiness, Health and Financial Freedom

By Sean Alexander

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To Mum and Dad - through all the vomit, late-night taxi services, drug dealer debt and drunken chaos that I caused, you have always loved and supported me.

This book was only possible because you kept me alive and out of prison!

Imagine teaching children that one of the most exciting things about becoming an adult is being able to take drugs.

Imagine convincing them that its normal for good nights out to result in shaky, anxious mornings, with crashing headaches, empty wallets, and perhaps even vomit in the bed.

Imagine explaining that to have a grown-up holiday, adults may end up sleeping with people they dont like, get into fights, or wake up in a cell. They might not even remember any of it.

Dont worry kids, theyre just normal side effects.

It sounds mental. Because it IS mental.

Were not talking about illegal drugs (yet). Were just talking about socially acceptable alcohol. Its the drug children see everyone from their parents to their favourite celebrities partaking in. Its the focal point of funerals, birthdays, Christmas, holidays, weddings, christenings, divorces, bad breakups, dating, good weeks at work, bad weeks at work, getting a new job, leaving an old job, a drink before the game, after the game and probably during the game. The list goes on and on.

We live on a drunk planet.

Alcohol is everywhere and has been for centuries. Society teaches us that champagne means celebration, that a holiday is an acceptable time for drinking lethal cocktails in gigantic fish bowls, and that a dash of whiskey will help your child sleep. Were even taught that hair of the dog is the remedy for a hangover. And just when you think youve heard them all, someone rocks up claiming that a glass of wine is part of their five a day.

As I said - MENTAL.

If alcohol were the magical, one-size-fits-all substance were brainwashed into believing it is, why are there Alcoholic Anonymous groups in almost every town? Why do celebrities that consume too much of it instantly go from being respected to being shamed? And why do nearly 30% of young people now decide not to drink at all? (The Guardian, 2018).

There are plenty of answers to those questions.

In many cases, people are discovering - as I did - that quitting booze can set your life on an entirely different path.

People are deciding to get ahead in life and become sober on a drunk planet. They are fed up with the crippling hangovers, the shame, the hangxiety and the many other side effects of alcohol. They want to experience life sober with everything that it has to offer.

Its a path thats exciting, fulfilling and healthy - and its also increasingly fashionable. Dealing correctly with your emotions, waking up hangover free and enjoying life to its full potential never gets old.

Most importantly, it could also be the one thing that finally allows you to look in the mirror and like what you see.

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So, what brings you here?

Perhaps, like the old me, you have a life packed with all the outward signs of success but feel empty inside.

Maybe youre beginning to tire of the whole work hard, play hard thing and struggling to see the point.

Are you living for the weekend and then spending half the week recovering from the weekend? You might not realise it, but you could be spending over 100 days of each year feeling the depressing and physically undesirable side-effects of alcohol. Imagine what you could do with your life if you were supercharged for all of those days?

Theres little point in trying to come up with the precise definition of a problem. People have many different reasons for wanting to reset their relationship with alcohol. If that werent the case, there wouldnt be millions participating in initiatives like Dry January and Sober October every year.

Even Alcoholics Anonymous is becoming less anonymous. The world is starting to sober up, and celebrities talk more openly about their battles with alcohol and other mind-altering substances.

Perhaps youre beginning to wonder if that nightly wine to take the edge off is really a great idea. Or maybe you desperately need to stop waking up on Monday mornings with a frazzled brain and a wallet empty of everything besides screwed up cocaine wraps.

Those may sound like two opposite extremes, but they can be closer together than many expect. You may be thinking, oh, I dont get bad hangovers, or drugs? Id never do DRUGS!

Well, as weve established, alcohol IS a drug. And its the one that many high-profile scientists classify as more harmful than any other (The Economist, 2019). For many, its also a huge gateway - both to other drugs and to years of bad decisions.

Plenty of people spend years or even decades getting away with it. Or at least they think they are. They dont notice how the hangovers start to eat into the week, the gradual weight gain, or the friends and colleagues creeping ahead in life.

For other people, unexpected events and life changes quickly see sustainable drinking morph into I need to do something about this. Anything from increased work stress to a redundancy, relationship breakdown or bereavement can cause things to escalate.

Regardless of where youre at, you dont have to reach the fabled rock bottom to enjoy all the benefits of sobriety. In fact, many people whove moved on from drinking rave about similar benefits and positive life changes - whether they were full-blown addicts, fans of wine oclock, or binge-drinking weekend warriors.

If youre in any way doubting your relationship with alcohol, thats all the evidence you need. Presumably, youre not questioning your relationship with broccoli or fixating on whether you should cut back on reading or walking?

Thats because we all know, deep down, that humans werent intended to have a life where everything - positive and negative - is marked with alcohol. Children manage to play and have endless fun without it. But then something shifts, and millions of adults become convinced nothing can be fun without a beer, a glass of wine or a G&T.