Do you have a tendency to drink when you’re happy and have something to celebrate?

Do you drink to drown your sorrows?

Perhaps you tend to reach for a drink after a hard day’s work or maybe you simply enjoy socialising with a nice glass of wine or bottle of cold beer.

On the face of it, there really doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with enjoying the odd glass here and there, but it might be useful to take a look at the exact nature of our relationship with alcohol.

Most people tend to drink to relieve stress or simply to alter their emotional state to one that they believe will make them feel better in the short term.

What we fail to realise though, is that alcohol is highly addictive and it can have a very negative impact on our lives both mentally and physically. It can destroy relationships, careers, health, finances and so on.

 It’s my view that alcohol can absolutely steal your personal power and prevent you from reaching your full potential and becoming the very best version of yourself.

The way I see it, personal power is the energy that we create within ourselves – it’s the vital energy that puts us on the path to becoming the best that we can be.

Alcohol can be the ultimate confidence trickster often deceiving us into believing that consuming it will be of benefit to us and somehow improve our ability to navigate the world.

At best  the excessive consumption of alcohol will keep you living a very average life with your  goals forever resigned to a place on your to do list while you exist on a very mundane and unfulfilling level.

At worst it will lead to a premature death!

Alcohol ( especially when consumed excessively)  steals our personal power specifically by dumbing us down, making us feel numb and disrupting our energy in different areas of our lives.

The vital energies that it steals from us are mainly

• Hope 
• Happiness and Joy  
• Creativity 
• Productivity
• Connection to Inner/Higher Self 
• Confidence and Self Belief – 
• Good Health 

 So as you can see – Alcohol can absolutely steal your power and rob you of your spark and zest for life!

One of the best decisions that I’ve  ever made was to drastically reduce my alcohol intake almost to the point of being teetotal except for very special occasions. 

Once you’re able to take back your power in this way then you’ll start to experience some remarkable things, namely:

• You have better control of your life
• You’ll be more productive
• You’ll have improved mental and physical health
• You will no longer be prone to letting yourself down hence you’ll have a deeper level of self confidence
• Never feeling hungover – Is 6 hours of drinking really worth 3 days of brain fog?
• You will be forced to deal with your unhealed traumas and unprocessed emotions
• You’ll have greater clarity on the things that bring you joy.

Reclaiming your power in this way may well be one of the best decisions you ever make. Not only will it help you to see things so much more clearly but it will help to put that much needed SPARK back into your life and put you back on the path to becoming the best version of you.

Hope you find this episode thought provoking at least :)

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Antonia xxxx