02/08/2025
🌘 "I Don’t Even Remember the Last Time I Felt Free..."
He sat in front of me, eyes bloodshot but still sharp. That kind of sharpness that comes from years of hiding—shame, fear, and pain—behind a smile. You wouldn’t have known. Not at first. He had a job. A family. A sense of humour.
But every night, he’d disappear.
A few drinks to unwind…
Then more to forget.
And then it wasn’t fun anymore. It was routine. A ritual.
Something that slipped out of his control and became the thing that controlled him.
Maybe you know someone like that.
Maybe you’ve been someone like that.
And here’s the part most people don’t talk about:
It started as a solution.
A way to calm the storm inside.
A way to manage emotions too heavy to carry sober.
But the brain... the brain doesn’t forget the shortcut. It wires it in. It says, “Ah, this works. Let’s do it again.”
And before long, what worked becomes the very thing that’s breaking you.
But we did something different.
In our sessions, we didn’t shame him. We didn’t ask him to confess his sins or start again from scratch.
We simply helped his unconscious mind understand:
—The danger is over.
—He’s safe now.
—He doesn’t need alcohol to cope anymore.
We rewired the response.
We healed the reasons.
And we showed his brain a new way to feel peace, strength, and control.
One night, a few weeks in, he messaged me:
“I was walking past the shop. Normally, I’d go in without thinking. But tonight… it was like my body just walked on. Like the craving had switched off.”
It had.
Because it was never about the drink.
It was always about what the drink did.
And when the mind learns a better way—
a calmer way—
the old patterns lose their power.
🌀 If this sounds like something you’ve been fighting quietly, please know this:
You don’t have to keep battling.
You don’t have to “stay strong.”
You just have to be willing to heal from the inside out.
And that’s exactly what I help people do.
