Now, in addition to being in rehab are you helping with being clean and sober by going to meetings? Absolutely. Whereas if I stay sober I have everything that I have got in the time that I have been sober already. Tell me about the road, what is the road? The road is what I know will happen if I choose to drink again. How are you managing your fear around going back? The way that I manage it is to follow the road. There must be concerns about having some fear about using alcohol to cope again. I can say my favourite time to have a glass of wine. You are cooking, you pour in some wine and you have a glass of wine. Making dinner was my favourite time to have that (what I call normal) glass of wine, the acceptable one. I definitely think about drinking at 6’o’clock. Wow! Are there triggers still that make you want to drink now that you are out? Tell me when. And when you were in rehab, what was the most valuable thing that you learned? The most valuable thing I learned in rehab was seeing other people being successful in their sobriety and that the obsession does leave, and that I will have to deal with it forever because it doesn’t go away, it’s just managed.
And their reaction was… went everywhere from anger to sympathy to happiness hypnosis for alcohol addiction. Was your family supportive and how did they react? They were very supportive, completely supportive because it’s a big sigh of relief that this problem will be taken care of. So it was scary knowing that that was all about to change and supposed to be forever. It was scary because it was all new and part of me was very comfortable being an alcoholic. And if I was having a drink I was consumed about the next one, if I was going to be allowed to have the next one if anyone would notice if I had the next one before someone else had it. What were the factors that let you know that it was time to go into rehab? I realised it was time to go into rehab when I realised that I was obsessing on the drink that I wasn’t having. Because we are in a fairly small community and so is really other people knowing. I think the scariest part of realising that I was an alcoholic at this time in my life is how it affected my family, my children and my husband and what the community was saying. I wanted to ask you, what was the scariest thing about having a problem with alcohol at this time in your life? Vida, welcome and thank you so much for our show and telling us your personal story and how you are going to incorporate hypnosis into your recovery. It is my pleasure to introduce you to Vida Caplin, who is using hypnosis to remain clean and sober after her stay in rehab. Today we are going to explore hypnosis and recovery and rehab. On this show you will hear from guests about how they have used hypnosis for such areas as stop smoking, weight loss, dealing with fear and anxiety, increasing their confidence and letting go of negative habits and much, much more. Hello, my name is Lisa Machenberg and I will be your host, covering a wide variety of subjects to help you understand the power of the subconscious mind and how hypnosis is being used today to help people achieve success, happiness and prosperity.
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The nation’s first web TV talk show featuring various topics on the fascinating world of hypnotherapy.