“Let’s be honest: nobody wants to live in a non-alcohol world,” says Georgia Foster, a London-based psychologist and alcohol control specialist. “But it’s about managing your alcohol, as opposed to letting it manage you. It’s about not using drink as escapism from day-to-day problems. For the past decade, Georgia has lived and worked in London helping upwardly mobile women cut down on their drinking.
“About 80% of my clients are women in their late thirties and older, mainly professional women how have very little time to relax and use alcohol as their down time and working mums for whom -me time’ means uncorking the wine as soon as the kids have gone to bed or once they’ve finished work,” says Georgia.
But when you wake up in the morning your inner critic starts saying, ‘Why did you drink that much?’ And to silence it, you drink more the next night and then your body develops a tolerance and you start using alcohol as a sleeping pill.
Almost all her clients are worried about how much they drink and what they might be doing to their bodies. “I tell them, ‘You’re not alone. Don’t freak out. The liver is incredibly good at repairing itself’,” says Georgia. “Over consumption of alcohol can lead to high blood pressure, weight gain, liver damage, throat cancer, anxiety and depression, just to name a few. Here are some of the amazing things that can happen to your body when you stop drinking alcohol or cut down on your alcohol consumption after a few months.
Here are some of the amazing things that can happen to your body when you stop drinking alcohol or cut down on your alcohol consumption after a few months.
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