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Jacqueline van Lieshout - What Do You Want to Drink?

Thirty Days Without Alcohol

HEALTH | LIFESTYLE

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No alcohol for thirty days and enjoying it? Yes! This book provides you with an unexpectedly inspiring party, without a hangover. Jacqueline van Lieshout presents a 30-day program for an alcohol-free month. It features information on what exactly alcohol does to you and most of all what not drinking has to offer to you. Accompanied with a step-by-step plan to really help and inspire you, without having to feel boring, dull, or alone.

This program transforms a month of toiling into a month of releasing patterned behavior, feeling super fit, and giving you an easy way to deal with alcohol differently. In a fun, interesting, and exciting manner, giving answers to all your questions, tips for each occasion, and most of all the desire to stay ‘dry’ for a month.

Published in November 2022 | Paperback | 160 pages | ca. 30,000 words
Dutch edition published by Bertram + de Leeuw

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacqueline van Lieshout previously wrote Dewine, From Trash to Temple in 28 Days, and The Genie Out of the Bottle, and has been coaching people online and offline since 2017 on living alcohol-free for shorter or longer periods, and optimizing their diets. Recognizable, with humor, raw honesty, and enthusiasm, she knows how to inspire you to work on your health in a way that works for you.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction; the aperitif

Week 1

I am not drinking today
What do you gain?
How do you talk about it?
Why do you stop drinking for 30 days?
Your new resolution
Tricky moments
Alcohol and sleep
Your mindset
The experiment
Soft drink in a wine glass?
Between 5pm and 7 pm
Relaxing and enjoying
Conversations about alcohol and your alcohol-free month
Daily schedule
Tips

Week 2

Why do we like to drink alcohol so much?
Do we really like alcohol?
The effects of stopping with alcohol
Craving alcohol when you're stressed
The urge to drink and how to deal with it
Parties, drinks, and other meetings
Meetings with partners and your best friends
Are non-alcohol drinkers boring?
The changing alcohol culture
Your social life
Dating when sober
Being tired: the cause, the remedy, and the question if it will pass
What can I get you to drink?
Negative messages about yourself in your own head
Tips

Week 3

Why do we drink?
Is quitting a matter of willpower?
The unexpected benefits of not drinking alcohol
Sex without alcohol
Alcohol and parenthood
What do you believe about alcohol?
How alcohol influences your senses
Alcohol and being happy
The unbelievable strength of your body and mind
How to use daily mindfulness
Tips

Week 4

The word to avoid: alcoholic
Learned behavior
All is fine with wine
Alcohol, the glue in our society
Is there life without alcohol?
The great desire for sugar
The power of your beliefs
Tips
A life with and a life without

Sources
Acknowledgement
Tips and addresses

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