New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is a time for celebration -- and for many of us, alcohol is a part of that. This year, we encourage you to embrace mindful drinking to support your mental health and avoid overdoing it during the New Year's countdown.
Follow these four tips to approach your relationship with alcohol more mindfully and stick to your limits this New Year's Eve:
🥂 Ask yourself WHY you're drinking. Are you using alcohol as a coping mechanism, to loosen yourself up in social situations, or to forget painful memories? Or, are you using it for cultural reasons, because others are drinking, because you just like the taste? This simple question can be very enlightening on your drinking habits!
🥂 Savor the taste of your drink. Not only does savoring your drink invite you to drink more slowly, but it also offers you the opportunity to slow down and embrace being in the present moment.
🥂 Set flexible limits. When you create a hard rule for yourself (i.e. "no more than two drinks"), you may feel tempted to break it. But when you create a flexible limit, you have the freedom to ask whether drinking more or less than you planned for supports your goals surrounding alcohol.
🥂 Reflect on how it went. A night of drinking should, ideally, not end with a hangover, but with introspection. Did you enjoy drinking more mindfully? Did you drink more or less than intended? How did this compare to other nights out you've had in the past?
If you are struggling with your relationship to alcohol, Life by Design Therapy can help you get to the root of the problem. Contact us today to achieve your goal of drinking less in 2022.
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