There are many reasons and we’ll be looking at this in more detail during The Dry Challenge. Here are some fundamental conclusions that I’ve reached, about why we drink.

We drink, take drugs and maybe even shop to distract ourselves from our current circumstances. Unfortunately, after the initial buzz, if there is one, we return to our selves and have gained nothing. 

In a bigger sense, I realized that if we prefer how we feel when we are drinking to how we feel in our ordinary everyday lives, our ordinary reality, then we might prefer to keep on drinking.

In this case, the issue is that we don’t really like our everyday life, our current circumstances. We’ll look into this – how to create a more enjoyable life. 

Another reason is to avoid or subdue unpleasant feelings, thoughts or worries. Or maybe past trauma. 

One of the main reasons I made The Dry Challenge is to help people evaluate how they feel about their life and to look at ways to be happier, to have more fun, to experience more joy. If you feel better about your everyday life, you’ll be much happier and maybe you’ll drink less or less often.

That’s it! 

Over time, it’s so easy to slip into drinking a few more nights a week and to having a few more drinks. Over the years this can accumulate.

We kinda know it’d be good to cut it down a bit, but there’s always tomorrow… We know that alcohol isn’t really good for us, after all it’s actually a toxin, but hey, it’s fun!! 

For me, there’s a period before dinner in the evening when I really feel like a beer or a glass of wine, which tends to become more wine with dinner and then, well, I may as well finish the bottle. I’ve noticed that this desire passes if I don’t have a drink before I eat, and after I eat I’m much less interested in having a drink. 

I’d like to snap out of that and a month off will help with that.

I used to have a wine cellar and well-stocked bar featuring single malt whisky. I still love a glass or two of wine and an occasional whisky. But I am reflecting on the part that I want alcohol to play in my life, going forward.

Why am I doing this, running The Free Dry Challenge?

One of my main motivations, as I mentioned above, is to help people explore how they feel about their everyday life and what they can do to make it more fun, more enjoyable. 

My insight is that one reason people drink is to distract themselves from their current circumstances – because they feel better when they are drinking than they do in their everyday existence. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could upgrade how we feel in our day to day life? Then drinking would become much more of a choice, one option among many. 

I’ve been thinking about the part that alcohol plays in our lives – our health and wellbeing. I was wondering what it would be like to stop for just a month and then I realised that many others would be interested in doing this too, especially if we made it easy and fun, so I came up with daily emails, community, info and support along the way. 

In our “day jobs” we create websites, use email software and reach people online, so we’re well-positioned to do it.

Why free? 

Along with our free resources we have some paid resources. Perhaps these will be valuable to some people once they have joined us on the The Dry Challenge Journey, and maybe they’ll be interested in my approach to finding more happiness and joy in their daily lives.

A Month of Reflection, A Lifetime of Rewards!

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