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Making the change to being alcohol free is truly wonderful! We know - we've done it! Through this

10/12/2024

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If you've ever poured yourself a drink only to forget where you put it, this might not be the book series for you! But for those of us who could use a little help on the path to a healthier, happier life without (or with less) alcohol, this could be the perfect read.

From midnight December 10th PDT to midnight December 11th PDT, Ways to Quit Drinking AND the Companion Workbook are BOTH available for FREE on Amazon! 🎁

If you could download them during this 24hr period and let us know what you thought of them, ideally by way of a maximum star rating and review on Amazon 😉, we'd be very grateful! Your feedback means the world 🌏 to us and helps us get this series in the hands of people it can deliver benefit to 🩷

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Thank you for your support, and we hope you find this book series to be valuable on your journey to better health! 💖

24/07/2024

🎉 Free for a Limited Time: Your Guide to a Healthier, Alcohol-Free Life! 🌟 Download Your Free Copy of the Ways to Quit Drinking Companion Workbook Today! 🚀

If you can start a glass of wine and then forget where you've put it before you've finished it, you probably don't need this book! For the rest of us, this could be a really useful read for optimum health and longevity.

From Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 12:00 AM PDT to Thursday, July 25, 2024, 11:59 PM PDT, our Ways to Quit Drinking Companion Workbook is available for FREE on Amazon! 🎁

If you could download it during this free period and let me know what you thought of it by way of a review on Amazon, we'd be very grateful! Your feedback means the world to us. 🌍

Available on Amazon at these links:
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UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D9KL25SS
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Thank you for your support, and we hope you find this workbook valuable on your journey to better health! 💖

07/02/2023

Have you ever felt like this?

04/10/2022

28/01/2022

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine - Thomas Edison

13/10/2021

Hello! 👋
Friend Tom Douglas was in contact today, wanting to share this special message he has prepared :-) We thought you might appreciate it. Anyone who has had to explain why they don't drink will likely chuckle!!
Whether you're doing without this October, or doing without (but not missing out) for good, Go Well

19/07/2021

Learn how to be a calmer and more relaxed version of yourself - join the Chill Pill Challenge - starts in one week! https://www.tonymatthews.com.au/chillpillchallenge/

Learn how to be a calmer and more relaxed version of yourself - join the Chill Pill Challenge - starts in one day! https://www.tonymatthews.com.au/chillpillchallenge/

18/07/2021

This is an amazing quote that shows how a simple act such as lying to ourselves can lead to a downward spiral into impulse and addiction...

06/07/2021

How much fun is this? [Q: Would you wear this attire?]
The sister of the fellow who started this business contacted me to ask if I'd share on our social pages... how could I not??!! Very cool!!
https://www.boozefreeapparel.com/

Booze Free Apparel Wearable design to empower your alcohol free lifestyle.

16/06/2021

Any Frazzled Female Entrepreneurs/Business Owners Here? 😊
(As well as helping people on their Alcohol Free journey...

Overcoming Anxiety to improve Self-Esteem - Women Living Well After 50

02/06/2021

Ladies! If you want a really good Podcast to follow, I can highly recommend Sue Loncaric's Podcast. Sue interviews such amazing and down to earth women - OH LOOK! There's me - Sonya! 😉 I was delighted to be a Guest and the Episode has been recently released. Called "Overcoming Anxiety to Live Well & to Love Being You", you can listen by clicking on the link below: https://www.womenlivingwellafter50.com.au/overcoming-anxiety-to-improve-self-esteem/
Sue's Podcast is called "Conversations With Women Living Well After 50". Find it where all good Podcasts are found ❤️

Overcoming Anxiety to improve Self-Esteem - Women Living Well After 50 Overcoming Anxiety to improve Self-Esteem is the topic for this episode of the Women Living Well After 50 Podcast. My guest is Sonya Matthews

23/05/2021

27/04/2021

I just found out that a vacant store in a local small shopping centre is about to be tenanted to a liquor store.... "the community has spoken" (as to what store they wanted there) were the words a neighbouring shop owner used when they told me about it.
I'm feeling very sad about that, really. However, for selfish reasons I'm happy that it didn't happen 5+ years ago... when it would undoubtedly have resulted in me drinking more.
The nearest 'bottle shop' to our community is currently a 10min or so drive. This will be 2mins away for most. "Will I? Won't I?" - it's almost a 'no-brainer', isn't it?
My thoughts go to those who will be adversely affected by the store's arrival. Those struggling to manage their drinking... the partners and families of those who behave unkindly when they've been drinking...
I wonder if you think I'm being melodramatic?
Perhaps there will be no negative effect for the 'bulk' of the population. But for those who it does affect adversely, it's pretty miserable. Is there an equivalent scenario, I wonder? Something else totally legal, that's considered 'okay', but at the same time so totally ... harmful. I mean, life-long harmful in some cases... I'm trying to put my thoughts into perspective. All perspectives welcome! Sonya xo

24/04/2021

We get an immediate benefit after quitting alcohol, but some things take a while longer to realise the full benefit - it is worth it!! Keep going 😁

22/04/2021

Oh what pain this causes me 😂
So awful and so lovely at the same time - check this out:
https://www.littleripples.co/pages/cause

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17/03/2021

Great news!

21/02/2021

Some interesting reading!

Alcohol interventions In Australia alcohol consumption has dropped over the past decade, but it's still a major driver of disease. However the main tool we have to address risky drinking isn't well used - it's time-consuming for GPs and other practitioners who are already stretched. And there's not such a lot of evidence...

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Why Love Being Alcohol Free?

Hi and Welcome to Love Being Alcohol Free!

Tony and Sonya are our names, and we are the people behind the help to stop drinking information and online resources and programs offered here and on our website.

We have written and prepared this material in response to these major observations in our lives with regard to our personal relationships with alcohol:

Alcohol is such a pervading and socially accepted drug that even if for a small moment we are able to stand back and look at our behaviour from afar, most of what we accept, like, and even approve of, are not really very acceptable at all.

Why do we accept these behaviours and why would we approve these influences into our children’s future?

Why do we feel a pervading sense of guilt around these behaviours?

If smoking has become socially unacceptable, why is drinking alcohol not viewed in a similar negative light?

A quick internet search is even more bewildering. The universally accepted advice regarding excessive drinking is simply to “cut back” on alcohol, “drink in moderation”, rather than stop drinking now!

Let’s think about that for a minute. If the medically accepted advice tells us that is OK to keep doing it, but places conditions on the way you can do it, then why does that same advice need to be reiterated so often? Why should we “drink in moderation”? How much is moderation? Can an alcoholic ever drink in moderation? How much is alcohol is safe to drink? Should I stop drinking?

It’s not working, is it? And it is confusing!

Why do we offer advice to someone who is suffering the clutches of an unwelcome drug – and tell them it’s “OK”, just try learning to drink in moderation! And then send them back into the clutches of an uncontrollable urge to drink more alcohol with little or no support to resist temptation! Doesn’t make sense. And neither does our societal acceptance of this problem.

Alcohol is a silent killer in our society, and the best medical advice is merely “try to drink in moderation”.

How do we know this? We were once caught in the trap – up to our necks!

But we found a better way to stop drinking. Let me describe how we narrowly escaped from the trap…

How do we know about the Alcohol Trap?

We were raised squarely within the all pervading vapors of the alcohol society, and naively waited in line – waiting for the trap to snap shut. For more than 25 years, alcohol was a daily ritual, and even if it was initially only at low levels, the gradual exposure and dependency grew to ever increasing degrees. We drank harmful amounts every day, with very little attempt to drink in moderation. We always thought we were in total control, and certainly would never have admitted a problem. Maybe the jaws of the trap were closing around us, even now, we don’t really know how close we came to getting stuck. We didn’t know about the trap being set for us, and we could not even consider that we had been sucked in. Sounds a lot like denial.

Sure we often tried to “cut back” and “drink in moderation”, congratulating ourselves that we were in control, because we could always have the will power to stop drinking. Then we would celebrate by having too much to drink at the very next opportunity. Contradiction! Luckily our unwelcome friend was always there to reassure us that it was OK to keep drinking.

We always tried to stop drinking for those special occasion dry months such as “Dry July”, “OctSober”, or any other scheme aimed at relying on short term will power to stop drinking. Fortunately, all we had to do was pay the fine for slipping off the wagon, whenever will power became overwhelmed by “won’t power.”

The trap was closing, and will power was not enough to cope.

How did we Avoid the Alcohol Trap?

We are lucky to be free from the jaws of the trap.

However there is no quick fix for alcohol dependency available on the internet. Medical advice suggests all you have to do is cut back and drink in moderation, but this relies on will power. There is a better way, and that is to treat the cause and not the symptoms, and we would like to show you our tips to stop drinking.

We can show you a better way that is trusted, proven, pain free, hassle free, no fuss.

Alcohol is the New To***co

Yes – the way we treat alcohol is destined to follow the way we are challenging the to***co industry, and the way that smoking is now viewed as less than socially acceptable. We need to tackle the alcohol problem more openly and be able to seek and find advice that really treats the causes, not the symptoms.

We want to give you the facts you need to defend yourself against the societal acceptance, the alcohol advertisements, our own friends and family. The most important barriers exist within our own subconscious mind which chooses to believe that alcohol is a harmless, life-enhancing elixir instead of the harmful, life-destroying toxin that it actually is.
Fundamental to our program, we do not believe in labeling people as an alcoholic and do not believe that there is a disease called alcoholism. We aim to show you tools and techniques such that you will change your relationship with alcohol forever, and help you to stop drinking. We can show you the tips for drinking less alcohol.

We will cut to the deepest levels of our understanding about this insidious drug, and how we are accustomed to welcome alcohol as a social norm. Even though we all widely acknowledge the reason behind a wide range of health and social is primarily due to our inability to safely consume alcohol, we still do it.

Drink in Moderation – This is Still Dangerous!!

Everyone from the medical system, advertising, friends and even family reinforce the belief that it is OK to “drink in moderation”.

That assumes you have the ability and the will power to “drink in moderation”!

Our program is designed to be more than just a good read, or yet another self – education piece. We plan to shake your fundamental understanding of the socially acceptable norm, and teach you a new paradigm, which will :

change your personal relationship with alcohol forever

show you how to stop drinking alcohol and stay stopped

offer you the easiest way to quit drinking

teach you ways to reduce alcohol consumption

show you how to drink less alcohol

have fun with this life changing journey

prove that you can and will enjoy your life so much more than you do now without having to drink alcohol.

If you want the knowledge that can help you permanently overcome your issues and quit alcohol, then look no further. If you would like to know how you can stop drinking on your own, then we can help.

We can show you how you can Stop Drinking right now!

Be willing to take this journey with an open mind, and we will seek to explore and explode the myths around the single most widespread and accepted drug addiction in the world, and share our tips to stop drinking!

Enter your Name and Email in the form on our website at https://lovebeingalcoholfree.com/help-to-stop-drinking/ and you will be able to quickly download your complimentary version of our eBook “How to Stop Drinking on Your Own”.

We welcome your feedback, so do feel free to contact us on or website or via Facebook!

Regards,

Tony and Sonya Matthews