THE LIFE COACH DIARIES
06
"It is impacting on my work and family life and I am in constant trouble with my employer and my wife"
I AM DRINKING TOO MUCH HOW DO I STOP THIS BAD HABIT?.
A forty something year old male approached me to assist in helping him to stop this bad habit of drinking too much as it was affecting his work and family life. Ethan (name changed for privacy) is a very successful highly paid Sales Executive. Ethan was always the energy at the party and enjoys making everyone laugh with his jokes and antics.
He lives quite a simple life in one of the Boland dorpies and his wife does not work as she takes care of the kids. Ethan spends quite a bit of money on alcohol and most times I discovered that he gets
invited by work friends mostly to go and have drinks after work. This normally leads to him not going home after work and ends up him coming home late and a drunk. His habits has put a lot of strain on his marriage and work as he is not alert or energetic as when he is sober.. We started looking at his habits and the friends that invite him for drinks. He discovered through this that it is always him paying for the drinks most times. A little bit of reshuffling his friend circle and changing his normal habits resulted that his drinking was far less and acceptable to his wife and employer.
The biggest test was the end of year work party and my constant sessions with him resulted that he did not have a single drink at his work Christmas party which was a big win for Ethan. Ethan started counseling with me with his wife and we started repairing childhood hurts for both him and his wife. The relationship