When I first decided to quit drinking alcohol, I had made the decision whole heartedly. For me it had been a very long time coming and I knew, that eventually I would have to stop, I just didn’t know when that day would come. I also knew that I could not go the rest of my life, on the path that I was taking, because even though I wouldn’t fully admit to myself that it was hindering my progress in life, I could feel that it was stifling my potential, and that I could be happier and more successful.
When finally, after a rather tumultuous roller coaster ride, I inevitably hit rock bottom. It was then that I finally had the courage to make that decision that it really was was time for me to quit drinking. At the time, someone close to me, who happened to be closely affiliated with a drug and alcohol program and had been for years, said this to me, “ I’m so glad you’re finally getting sober Eva. You should go to rehab it would be really helpful for you, and I want to see you follow through with this.”
In truth, I almost got offended that she had, had that little of faith in my ability to quit. But then I realized that this had been her own path, the one she had chosen many years before, that had gotten her sober, and into the successful life that she was now living. Yet for me, it just didn’t feel like it made enough sense.
I had already made the decision that I wasn’t going to drink anymore. And in the deepest part of my soul, I remember thinking, and then saying with great conviction, because I knew, “I do not need rehab to help me quit drinking.”
“Well are you going to go to a meeting?” she had then asked. “Sure,” I said. “I’ll try out some meetings and then go from there!”
After less than a handful of meetings, and a new and demanding work schedule that had kept me on the road. I had to admit, that I just didn’t have time, nor a full interest and commitment to going to meetings. It just didn’t seem like it would be the make or break decision on whether or not I would stay sober, nor did it seem like that would be what would keep me sober and gaining my own momentum.
In saying that, meetings have helped many people get sober and stay sober, and for that I commend their purpose.
But it was perhaps my third time that I had been to a meeting, that I realized once and for all, that I would need to find my own DIRECT ROUTE to my sobriety once and for all. After that particular meeting had ended, a woman approached me, who had been sober for more than two years, and as I was fresh to the program had wanted to help me in any way that she could. This is a very natural response from people in drug and alcohol meetings, to want to help the newcomers to get sober and stay sober and the interaction is helpful for those who need group therapy.
Not fifteen minutes later, I suddenly found myself, asking her personal questions so that we could get to the bottom of some issues that she herself had been dealing with in her own life, and that was when I suddenly realized, that the entire direction of the conversation had reversed itself. Underneath the addiction, I could see that she was still struggling with other aspects of her life, and that my natural response was to try and help her come to some conclusions.
After leaving the meeting, I realized that I was in no way yet ready to begin looking at other peoples stuff, and seeing from that experience that they were going to approach me, to help resolve them, while I was still trying to hone in on my own very real addiction to alcohol and the issues that had gotten me there. In other words, I felt that I would be prematurely putting myself in an environment, where I knew that people would be coming to me for help with their issues before I had even had a chance to look at my own.
Why would they?
Perhaps they sensed the natural ability I had to help people in that way. Perhaps, that I had leadership skills, or some answers that they did not have. But for me, it was just too soon and at the time, I just wasn’t ready.
Since that day, more than ten years ago, I have been on an incredible journey of healing which allowed me to go to the deepest aspects of my life, and derive from there, the sacred methods of teaching which, finally, I am able to wholeheartedly convey to others.
Along with a steadfast structured program ,which I have developed, and the methods that I know through my own journey and my experience in helping others I have been able to create and establish a format which will act as a direct guidance tool, in assisting people in getting sober and stay sober, with little or no potential relapse.
This program is called, DIRECT ROUTE SOBER, and requires no journey through rehab or AA meetings, but HOWEVER, it does require one important detail that without it, I could not recommend this program or for that matter, any other program of sobriety.
WHAT IS THIS MOST IMPORTANT DETAIL? It is your own courage and willingness to want to let go of the dependancy on alcohol and begin the transformational journey to your own, utmost success and well being.
By following this program you will not be required to postpone your life, or put anything on hold. You will do the work, which will take you on an incredible and believe it or not fascinating journey through your own self discovery, and I will be here and fully present, to help guide you through it, the entire way.