 Hi there, this is James Swanik and you're listening to the alcohol-free lifestyle podcast where you learn how to take back control over alcohol and live a life of health wealth love and happiness You are not an alcoholic You don't need to go to an AA meeting and say hi. My name is John. My name is Tina My name is Chris, and I'm an alcoholic because you're not an alcoholic Okay, don't let society tell you that you are You're just someone who drinks too much at the moment, and we can easily take care of that I'm James Swanik from the alcohol-freedom formula. I've helped tens of thousands of people around the world now quit drinking There's some free resources for you down below click on those to get started You're not an alcoholic But you come home from work probably and you have a couple of drinks at the end of the day to relieve you of your Stress or anxiety or you go out on the weekend and you binge drink and maybe sometimes you get drunk Maybe you just have this seemingly innocent glass or two each night and There's this silent destruction going on underneath the surface That's robbing you of clarity and focus and energy in a good night's sleep You're drinking however innocent it may seem even if it's just one or two drinks is Causing you to be foggy. It's causing you to put on weight It's causing you to stay in a state of mediocrity where you're not going after your dreams You don't get that promotion at work. You don't make that extra call in your business. You don't do that additional deal You're just blah. You're not rock bottom, but you're just blah What are the alternatives or what are the options here for you to finally quit drinking and stay quit? Well, the knee-jerk reaction from everyone is go to AA go to Alcoholics Anonymous Let me tell you something. I support AA in its mission to help people who feel like they are addicted to alcohol And they have a six to eight percent success rate So less than one out of ten people who go to AA will actually quit and stay quit Now if you're still watching this I've got a hunch about you and that is is that you do not want to go to an AA meeting and say hi My name is John. My name is James. My name is Tina Christine Lauren, and I'm an alcoholic Because deep down, you know, you're not an alcoholic Do you really want to surrender to a higher power? Do you want to stand in a circle hold hands and chant? Work the system it works if you work it keep coming back keep coming back or whatever they say in AA now again Has it worked for millions of people around the world? Yes, it has I support them for that But it doesn't work for nine out of ten people and you're not an alcoholic And you don't need to drive to a dirty dark dungeon like meeting stand in a circle and say that you are an alcoholic You just drink too much. It's a habit And you haven't figured out how to break that habit now if you've been trying to quit and haven't been able to it's okay It's not your fault because alcohol is highly addictive It's a toxin and it's a poison that leaves you wanting more of it the whole time Plus you're dealing with society all these smiling assassins everywhere who are coming up to you going want to drink have a drink It's the the person who greets you at the restaurant when you first come in and he or she says to you Oh, good evening. Your table is not quite ready. Would you like to have a drink at the bar the smiling assassin? They're like smiling here. Would you like some of our poison? They're trying to kill you with their poison But doing it with a smile on their face When you get to the restaurant table the waiter or waitress comes over says good evening everyone My name is Christy. I'll be your server tonight. Can I get you started with some drinks? They may as well be saying can I get you started with some poison? May I offer you some attractively packaged poison right now? Because that's what alcohol is It's a poison and the toxins stay in your body for seven to ten days after you drink it Sapping you of your energy making your liver work overtime drying out your skin Robbing you of clarity and focus and energy Just because you know that you go out and have a couple drinks each night And you haven't been able to break that cycle does not mean that you are an alcoholic If you would like to learn how to quit alcohol and break that habit and do it with support Do it with a proven methodology that I learned and that I followed back in 2010 and that now Thousands of people have learned and incorporated into their own lives to successfully quit drinking without AA Then I invite you to click on some links down below get some of my free resources Check it out. It will help you. Please do like this video as well Comment down below and let me know if people in your life has tried to convince you to go to an AA meeting You're not an alcoholic. You're just someone who knows that you drink too much at the moment But that's going to change. You're not broken You're not broken. You're not broken You're just someone who has a habit of drinking a little bit too much a little bit too consistently And you realize that it's slowing you down and holding you back in life So I invite you to click on the link below grab some of those free resources And live the life of alcohol freedom because it's beautiful on the other side Please remember to subscribe like comment down below. I'll see you on the next one Thank you so much for listening. I have some free stuff for you If you go to james swanick.com forward slash guide I will send you my formula for reducing or quitting alcohol If you'd like to watch the video versions of these episodes Then you can watch them at my youtube channel, which is at james swanick If you'd like to send me a direct message on instagram, you can do so at james swanick If you would like to try a three day challenge a free three day challenge You can go to james swanick.com forward slash three day challenge If you would like to try the 30 day no alcohol challenge You can go to 30 day no alcohol challenge If you would like to schedule a 15 minute exploratory call with one of my coaches to see how we may be able to help you in your alcohol free journey You can go to james swanick.com forward slash schedule And my request is if indeed you enjoyed this episode or you have enjoyed the podcast Would you please go ahead and rate the show in itunes? And would you please write a review a review might just be a sentence saying great. Listen. Hey, this was fantastic Oh, I really enjoyed this whenever you give a rating whenever you write a review It surges our podcast up in the rankings enabling more people to see it and hear it and potentially Inspiring someone out there to reduce or quit alcohol and potentially transform their life So yes while it does help me to get ratings and to get reviews You will actually be directly contributing to helping someone's life by having them discover this podcast So if you are open to inspiring others and to helping me in the process Would you please go ahead and give this episode a ranking and would you please write a review? Thank you so much for listening and I will catch you on the next one