Sober Short - Play the Movie Forward

Tribe Sober - inspiring an alcohol-free life!

Welcome to our fifth "Sober Short" - an interim mini podcast to supplement the weekly Tribe Sober podcast.

I’m going to kick off this series by taking you through our Tribe Sober Toolkit – this toolkit is just one of the things that we share with you during our regular Zoom workshops – click here for more info.

Our workshops have been a gamechanger for so many people so if you want to kickstart your sober journey then sign up today

In this episode

During the first 4 Sober Shorts we looked at the first 4 Tools in our toolbox

Tool 1 was CONNECTION

 “Connection is the Opposite of Addiction” and if you’re serious about getting sober then you need to connect with others on the same path –

So if you’re not yet a member of our tribe please check us out on tribesober.com “join our tribe” to read about the benefits of membership

Tool 2 was GET MOVING

We all know is that exercise is “good for us” and many many people exercise daily but they also drink on a daily basis – sometimes excessively – ditch the drink and keep exercising and you will be amazed at how much fitter you will get!

Tool number 3 was all about:-

Tool 3 was BUILD YOUR EMOTIONAL STRENGTH

All about “learning to sit with our feelings” – instead of trying to chase them away with alcohol – alcohol is the “easy button” and enables us to bypass difficult emotions

We have to “get comfortable with being uncomfortable as Tribe Sober coach Lynette says or as Glennon Doyle says:-

 “First the Pain, then the Rising”

Tool 4 was all about MINDSET

About changing your thinking – about drinking

The global alcohol industry spends trillions on marketing every year to convince us that we need their product..

Many women now believe that drinking wine is essential for a full and happy life.

We have to de-program ourselves — a nice analogy is to think of our subconscious mind as a computer — we need to reboot and load some new software.

Todays Tool is all about VISUALISATION

3 ways to use visualisation

If you get a craving in the evening then just accept it’s the “wine witch” but she can no longer control you.  Grab an AF drink or go out for a walk…

Play the movie forward – if you get the urge to drink then just think it through – do you really want to keep going back to Day 1 – again and again

Visualise those 2 paths – the first six months of sobriety are tough so you need to work hard to stay on track – you have to move from a place of instant gratification to a place where you can focus on long term – and life changing goals…

So that’s our Sober Short for today – 3 Visualisation tools

If YOU’ve got a favourite tip that you’d like me to share on Sober Shorts then just email it to me [email protected] 

And don’t forget to check out our weekly podcast – its full of recovery stories and expert advice– its called Tribe Sober and it comes out every Saturday morning.

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Till Next Week

Janet x

 

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