It is your choice to continue drinking but if you have decided to stop, you have come to the right place. By completing these exercises you will learn the skills necessary to stay sober, but you need to work all of them to maintain your sobriety. We have learned that the more people do the better they recover.
The illness of addiction is not you, it is an illness that lives inside of you. An addicts brain is a changed brain. You are not bad; the illness is bad. You will find that this illness has a mind of it's own and it will struggle for survival. It will do everything it it's power to get you off track and get you back to addictive behavior. The illness is cunning, baffling, and powerful. It often works out of your awareness, and you must use healthy thoughts and behaviors to stay in recovery