
07/04/2025
You’ve had a hard day, need to unwind, to turn your mind off. You pour yourself a drink, and then another and maybe two is enough to turn take the edge off the day so you can finally relax; or maybe you have another. After all, in Australia it’s called a national pastime.
This is a form of numbing. This is a way for you to avoid your life, the feelings that you have and shut down the inner critic. This gives you a false confidence that you have nothing you need to deal with in your life and feeds the excuse that this is a great way to relax and unwind.
I hadn’t been a huge drinker in over 10 years, but after my separation when I finally let myself feel the lose of the relationship I started to drink again. A few times a week, a couple of glasses each time, not enough to be drunk, but enough to relax and feel a sense of peace. Even with all my personal development I was choosing to numb rather than feel and deal with the grief I felt. When I stopped drinking at the start of 2020, set a six-month goal to not drink in and honestly it was to see how I would go without it. I thought I had faced all the trauma experiences, the childhood wounds, stories that had triggered, activated and shut down parts of me that I had not wanted to see in the past.
Try having a stressful day without finishing with a drink or numbing in some way and see what comes up.
Never more than before did I need to practice what I guided every client through, to walk the talk of the alignment, balance and peace-filled living I helped them find in their lives.
** Communicating how I felt rather than loosing my s**t and exploding all m y feelings and thoughts at once.
** Getting to know my inner critic intimately and working, consistently, f # hard to change that constant conversation to one that it is a supportive and inspiring.
**Learning to truly relax and let go from the inside, stopping needing to control every moment of my life. The truth is that you control very little BUT with deep self-awareness you have a greater amount of choice. Choice trumps control every single time.
By stopping avoiding the dark and hard stuff about me I could choose who I wanted to be, rather than my past experiences of relationships, of my childhood dictate how I showed up has created an amazing life that numbing out from, needing a break from now is the craziest choice I could ever make.
I don’t need to hide behind that ‘fun and relaxed’ Ema that emerged after a couple of drink, because she isn’t real.
I love the real me, the dark and light sides of me, all of it.
To start the conversation on how you can be fully in your life https://calendly.com/emamuir01/alignmentcheck