Have you ever felt like that nightly glass of wine was the only thing you had just for you? That it's the treat you get when you finish all of the “have to” parts of your day?

I get it.

Have you ever wondered if your drinking is bad enough that you should look at doing something different? Have you looked up the guidelines and found all the online tests?

So did I.

And the question I finally realized that I needed to ask myself wasn’t “Is this a problem that’s bad enough I need to take action?”

The real question was “Is this good enough?”

And that’s when things began to change for me. That’s when I began to really understand how much those glasses of wine in the evenings were hurting me. How much I understood that the peace I was looking for was being kept just out of my reach. How small my world really was becoming. How much I used the alcohol to numb my brain and my heart and making me settle for less than I deserved.

I deserved better than I was giving myself. And so do you.