Here’s an interesting and important blog from Veronica Valli which she has take from her book Why You Drink and How to Stop: A Journey to Freedom. I like Veronica’s sentence: “Alcoholism develops because it has an internal environment to grow in.”
‘In order to overcome alcoholism, stopping the drinking of alcohol simply isn’t enough.
Alcoholism develops because it has an internal environment to grow in. Although external conditions enable drinking, it is the internal conditions that allow alcoholism to control someone’s life. There is a need for a greater understanding of this.
- Alcoholism is an internal (spiritual) illness. Drinking is only a symptom.
- Alcoholism’s key motivator is about changing how you feel.
- Alcoholism grows out of a faulty system of thinking and emotional responses.
