Alcohol Cravings

You’re cruising along in your day feeling good, just minding your business, when all of a sudden the thought of a drink pops in your head. 

Where the heck did that come from? 

You don’t want to drink- you understand it tried to ruin your life and you don’t do it well- but now the thought is in your head, and it's getting bigger. 

Maybe you can control it now. 

You could drink today and no one would even know. 

You could just have one, that’s easy to hide. 

WTF?!?

Well, here’s the deal- cravings are totally normal.

Having a craving doesn’t mean there is something wrong with you or that you are doing sobriety wrong- it doesn’t mean you are weak or that your program isn’t working- in fact, cravings are, largely, a learned response. 

Meaning, we condition ourselves to associate certain things with drinking.

When you think about certain places, people, or events, you connect those things to alcohol. When your brain is triggered by a thought or memory of one of ...