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It also helps to regulate your blood pressure and improve your cognitive functioning. In short, drinking less can give you more out of life as you promote and sustain your well-being. Monument provides evidence-based support that includes professional counseling, a peer community, and physician-prescribed medication to stop drinking. By checking in on your relationship with alcohol, you can transform the role it plays in your life.
Changing your relationship with alcohol is an act of self-care, and you should be proud to embark on that journey, or continue along your path.
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For this reason, many non-drinkers are not comfortable with the concept of moderate drinking. In fact, whilst the social stigma is perhaps lessened for someone who does partake in occasional mindful drinking, the effort of self-control is possibly more complicated and harder to execute — particularly for someone who has struggled with their off-switch. How do you cope?
Again, sound familiar? But imposing your opinion on someone else and never being able to form the understanding that what works for you may not work for someone else, is truly unhelpful for everyone.
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