Replacing heavy drinking with Organics snacks is win for me, some kind or a sort of personal victory I must say because tackling addiction on your own is a big task and a long lonely journey. Although no amount of therapy or trip to a psychologist, perhaps a rehabilitation center will work for anyone of the monster is not first vanquished within. Breaking the habit mentally first is the key then every other forms of therapies are just external manifestations. Here is a cereal bag of mixed edibles I purchased and it is what I have tried to do anytime I am compelled to drink.
Imagine having to take a spoonful of organic cereals/edibles anytime that compelling comes to drink, luckily this small bag pack is fortified with dried varieties of fruits. There's coconuts flakes, banana, granola nuts, papaya, apples etc mixed in the cereal which makes it a perfect diet at the same time an alternative to Booze(lol).
I have shared my journey into been an alcoholic a couple of times, death made me resort into drinking heavily back in 2013 when my dear mother passed. Few Years later I struggled to stay alcohol free and its not an easy life. People easily castigate junkies, I mean i use to pass some sort of judgement to drug users too but then I became a victim then I realised that circumstances in our lives could alter so many beautiful and nice things in our lives and we could resolve to means to find happiness, to get sleep, to not feel depressed, to battle childhood trauma and so on.
The pack isn't cheap considering the economic situation of my country but its worth it, I just might not be able to afford to buy it often which takes me back to sourcing for other cheaper things I can buy when I feel like stacking my apartment with alcoholic drinks. It is a self discipline thing, nothing or nobody is forcing me to do this, fact is too much drinks is bad for the body especially when you are attaining certain he brackets.
There's a local proverb in my culture that says and I quote, "the motherless do not injure their backs ". Meaning, if you got no one to mean you and attend to you when you are down, you got to be extra careful not to foolishly fall sick and nobody to care for you. My late mom use to say that while we were younger, as I grew into full adult I begin to understand that funny but powerful sentence.
Occasionally I still drink, much more of a social drinker now and by social its between myself and my big brother and two of my cousins(lol). It still falls under social drinking right?
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