First Chapter Review: THE ALCOHOL CON by Michaela Weaver #nonfiction #alcoholism #firstchapterreview

Thanks for visiting Literarily Speaking! Today's post is a first chapter review of THE ALCOHOL CON: HOW TO OUTSMART IT by Michaela Weaver. First, a little about the book....

Title: THE ALCOHOL CON: HOW TO OUTSMART IT
Author: Michaela Weaver
Publisher: Parker Press Publishing
Pages: 148
Genre: Self-Help

Is drinking having a negative effect on your life? You are not alone!

Millions of strong-minded, capable people find themselves falling victim to the biggest con trick of our time – alcohol!

It lures us with false promises of fun and social acceptability. Instead we find ourselves caught in a cycle of drinking, hangovers, morning regret, and guilt.

Despite being successful in other areas of life, it seems difficult to change our drinking habits. In the face of alcohol it’s easy blame ourselves, and believe we are unable to exercise self-control.

In this ground-breaking book, The Alcohol Con is exposed, and unraveled with insight and humour. Drawing on her own experience, and with a background in science and professional coaching, Michaela Weaver paves the way for you to outsmart the alcohol con, break free and move forward to a bright new sober future.

FAVORITE QUOTE FROM FIRST CHAPTER:

"I don’t head for the fridge as soon as I get home from work anymore, and don’t curse when I find only a half a bottle left there from the night before. I don’t worry about going out with friends and needing to remember to stop drinking after four drinks, only to have four drinks and forget to remember. I don’t ever wake up at 3am with a dry throat, and racing heart with a feeling of dread as I try to remember what I said and did the night before. I don’t have to deal with my guilt, or feeling stupid because I decided not to have a drink last night, but come wine o’clock my body went into autopilot as my brain decided to change its mind, and I did the very thing I promised myself that I wouldn’t do."

BOOK COVER:

Love the symbolism of the fish hook.

FIRST CHAPTER REVIEW:

This book is divided into parts and sections-no true first chapter- so I'm going to review the introduction instead. I did delve into the parts and the sections - all of them a good read. The introduction, however, is important because it is there we find out why the author wrote the book. It is she who was conned by the alcohol demon. It is this introduction that prepares you for the rest of the book in which she explains the steps one needs to take to conquer the beast.

KEEP READING?

Definitely! Alcoholism ran rampant in my household. I avoided the gene somehow; don't know why that happened but one thing I could never understand was why anyone wanted to be drunk early in the morning and continue all throughout the day. That's why I'm going to keep reading. I want answers. And I know I will get those answers in The Alcohol Con. I will have a full review shortly.

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Meet The Author

As a TEDx speaker, author, masters qualified coach, science graduate and professional woman, you would think that with all that I’d know better than to find myself addicted to alcohol and stuck in a ‘wine o’clock, weekend binge’ drinking cycle.

But I have since learned how and why we become addicted to alcohol, and how to change that.

I now help women to learn about alcohol, revolutionize their relationships with alcohol and skip, run and jump into a thriving life without alcohol dragging them down.

You’re not weak, incapable or out of control, but maybe like millions of others you were lured in and fell for a highly addictive and insidious drug.