My Dad Stopped Drinking At 80 — Here's Why You're Not Too Old Either

Just because you did it before doesn't mean to say that you have to keep doing it.

However many years you've been drinking, somewhere along the way, your brain decided somehow that this is who you are.

Repetition mostly, but you know, it's saying to you, I'm a drinker, this is what I do.

The culture, your family, your mates, that notion.

of being a drinker was there before you even started.

Before you had any idea of what it actually meant to be a drinker, what it meant physically to pour this toxin into your body.

You inherited the whole thing.

You didn't have a choice.

But that's not who you are.

Right? It's a habit you repeated.

And just because you repeated it doesn't mean that you're locked into it for the rest of your life.

You're not the drinker.

You're the person who's been doing the drinking.

They're completely two different things.

And the second one, the person who is doing the drinking, you can choose differently at any age.

And I see this with every single client that I work with.

They walk in convinced that this is who they are.

And a few weeks in, they realize that it never was.

It was just what they did.

It's what they've been doing.

is the behavior, not them.

And once you see that distinction, everything starts to shift because you stop trying to fight yourself.

You stop white knuckling things.

you start to see the drinking for what it actually is.

Not your identity, but just a habit.