How do you stop drinking when your partner drinks, your friends drink and seemingly every occasion involves a bottle of something?

You can change your drinking even when the people around you carry on. But the starting point is bringing the focus back to you.

Why do you want to change? Why is alcohol a problem for you? What is it affecting? And what can you do about it?

You don’t have to wait for everyone else to change first.

Alcohol is everywhere

I was going to say it might feel like alcohol is everywhere.

But actually, it is in a lot of places.

It’s in the supermarket. At the garage when you get petrol. Handed to you when you arrive at a networking event.

Weddings, christenings, funerals, birthdays. Even children’s birthday parties can involve drinks for the adults.

Sometimes you only went shopping for dinner, and somehow a bottle of wine has become part of the plan.

Then there’s home.

You might live with a partner who drinks, family members or grown-up children who drin...