Posted on 01/04/2018 12:36:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
Up until about three years ago, Annie Grace would end her stressful workdays as a vice president of a global marketing company with a glass of malbec, filled to the top, often the first of five in her daily ritual.
By the time she tucked her two children into bed and kissed her husband good night, her teeth were purple, her breath was thick with the smell of booze and, often, an empty box of wine would be in the trash of their Evergreen, Colo., home. Some weeks, she and her husband would plow through 12 boxes.
“I was not the mom I wanted to be,” Grace, now 39, tells The Post. “I wanted to be giving my family the best of me and I was giving them the absolute worst.”
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A 20-year old drunk is a wild man, but a 40-year old drunk is just a drunk.
mind over matter...try that with diahrea
why-you-dont-need-aa-to-quit-drinking
I didn’t need AA to quit drinking...I did it every day for years.
Turns out, it’s not about quiting, it’s about not starting..I needed AA for that.
...she didn’t turn to Alcoholics Anonymous. She decided to do it all on her own, a process she details in her book, “This Naked Mind” (Avery).
...Grace researched alcohol’s ill effects and journaled about why she was drinking in an effort to dismantle the assumptions that she had made about the substance — that it was calming her nerves or making her more interesting. In fact, she found, it didn’t do any of that.
After a two-week period of withdrawal symptoms such as having trouble sleeping, night sweats, anxiety and restlessness, Grace became completely sober using her mind-over-matter technique.
The book tells you how to do it using will power is my guess.
Whatever helps get a person off the booze addiction is a good thing.
My help with out AA was the same as with the smokes it all came down to $$$$
She achieved sobriety without AA. Good for her. But it has helped countless people, while her method has a proven track record of ... one.
AA doesn’t inflict “shame” on anyone. Far from it. And a lot of recovering alkies CAN’T touch even a single drop for fear of a relapse.
This woman is trying to improve on a product that has been very successful for longer than she’s been alive. I suspect it’s more for self-glorification than out of any altruistic imperative.
amen.
Can I advertise here too?
BOX of wine? Wine comes in BOXES????
What is it? like those little juice boxes with straws for a new generation??
Two weeks??? More like two days.
Bigger, probably 3- 5 Liter boxes.
3 liter boxes.
1.5 liter boxes.
Replaces the jug.
I don’t believe in Alcoholism, just Compulsive Drinking. This disease stuff is off, but if it works keeping people sober, than I’m for it. That being said 5 briming glasses of wine? She must have got shnockered every night. A wine drunk has to be the worst drunk of all. I couldn’t drink 5 brimfulls in 5 hours if you promised to pay me but I’ve been known to put some Beefeater ‘n Tonic away
“BOX of wine? Wine comes in BOXES????”
Assuming you’re serious (yes, I know what that means), I’m guessing you’ve not been in a liquor store in some time to see that lots of wine is offered in a box which holds a sealed bladder with a spigot for dispensing. Some of it is dreck while there are also some very drinkable offerings in a box. Two best things: easy storage in the refrigerator and air can’t get to the wine that’s left so oxidation-caused spoilage is a thing of the past.
No, not a small juice box
I know a 44 Mag..
If I drank as much as some of these people I’d weigh north of 400 pounds.
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