Thrusting yourself into drinking situations is not what builds this muscle up. I’m not suggesting you constantly hang out in bars. It’s all about paying attention to your cravings, triggers and romanticizing. Having misty-eyed visions of enjoying a gin and tonic in a beer garden as spring begins to chirp and bloom? You’re going to need to dismantle that fantasy before you sit in a beer garden. Fantasies of being able to moderate? Get down and give me 20 examples of when you tried moderation and utterly, irrevocably failed. It’s a mental muscle which is steeled by fighting fantasies with
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