How I Quit Drinking Alcohol

The way that this program helps you to find the relationship that you want with alcohol is by helping you to change your mindset in order to make the decision to not drink alcohol an empowering choice.

As soon as you join the program, you will receive an email with your login details. Once you login you can start watching the video lessons in the program straight away! You will also be able to request to join the HIQDA VIP Members FB Group and your request will be accepted.

You will receive ALL 12 modules of the program, so you can choose to jump to any part of the program that resonates with you. You can also choose to follow the program in order of the modules. We believe the best way to go through the program is to start at the beginning and go from Module 1 - 12 and jump to certain sections of the program if those lessons suit your current needs.

Every week on a Friday 10am AEST, we get together in the HIQDA VIP Members FB Group and share our learnings, our journeys and new insights with each other. This is a great way to connect with others and get any of your questions answered.

The program begins and ends when you choose. You can choose to start the program at any time. Once you are happy with your relationship with alcohol and you feel confident that you are in control of your drinking habits, you can leave at any time.

However, we do offer a success guarantee, where you get a 25% discount if you commit to completing the full 12 months of the program. By committing to this program for 12 months, you get the discount as well as lifetime access to the program.

You can read more about the success guarantee below...

Choose the level of the program depending on:
1. How internally driven and motivated you are
All levels of the HIQDA Membership Program require you to be internally driven to some extent. The program will not work simply by just paying the monthly fee. The program requires you to REALLY want to stop drinking as much as you do and for you to complete the program tasks. However, if you do not know how to motivate yourself and you need more accountability, then Levels 2 and 3 will be perfect for you!

2. Your support preferences
If you prefer to be supported by a coach which has expertise in this area, then Level 2 and 3 are the levels for you. Here you get monthly (Level 3) or biweekly (Level 2) 1:1 coaching sessions with addiction coach, Zay Canters, as well as short 15 minute laser coaching sessions when you need support at short notice. You also get unlimited text and email support at Levels 2 and 3.

3. How quickly you want to stop or cut down on drinking alcohol
The faster you want to stop drinking and the less you want to beat around the bush, the more support you'll need. Levels 2 and 3 get right down to the root of the problem much quicker than you would than in Level 1, where you only have the video lessons, reflections and group sessions.

4. Your ability to conveniently access the internet
Is it hard for you to access high-speed internet where you live?
Level 1 requires you to watch HD video that can range from 7 - 40 minutes. If your internet is slow, there is the option to turn the quality down to make streaming faster. Level 2 and 3 include 1:1 Coaching Sessions where you'll be required to download the Zoom Meetings App and login to the online meeting room either monthly or fortnightly for 1-1.5 hours.

5. How much TIME and MONEY you have available
I have one question to ask you...
How much money and time to do you spend on drinking alcohol?
Many people use the excuse for no time and no money, when they are drinking for multiple hours a week and spending a big chunk of their income on alcohol.
The successful people in the program are those who value themselves more than they value alcohol and that make the program work for them!
Level 1 = 1-1.5 hours a week approx ($24 - $32 per week)
Level 2 = 2-2.5 hours a week approx ($49 - $66 per week)
Level 3 = 3-3.5 hours a week approx ($74 - $99 per week)

A good question to ask yourself is this....
* How much do you spend on alcohol per week/month?
* How much money will you save on alcohol when you stop drinking?
* What will you be able to spend that money on?
You might notice that this program is only a fraction of the amount you spend on alcohol (depending on where in the world you live).

This was a big question for me when I quit drinking alcohol. 6 months of coaching with my life coach cost $10,000. I had also never invested that much money in myself before. In fact, I ONLY had just reached $10,000 in my back account and I had already gone from spending about $250 a week on alcohol and marijuana to about $100 a week.

I thought long and hard about it and made the decision to invest the money in myself. I had learnt and grown so much in the first 3 months of coaching that I knew I would only keep growing and keep learning.

One question I asked myself was... "What's the worst that could happen?"

The worst that could happen would be:
* I learn HEAPS about myself and why I do what I do
* I continue working and saving money
* I don't achieve ALL of the goals I set for myself

Alternatively, what is The BEST that could happen?

I achieve all the goals I set for myself:
* Eat and drink healthy and lose 10kg
* Fix my chronic lower back pain
* Mend my broken relationship with my parents
* Wake up with energy
* Become a great communicator and listener
* Start a successful business that I'm passionate about
* I become responsible, reliable, wise, smart, mature, independent, determined and healthy.

I kept a reminder of this investment on my wall (I still have it there today) to remind me of how much I care about myself, and the best investment I ever made.

The more money, the bigger the commitment. I ended up achieving ALL of the goals above. I now have more than $10,000 in my bank account and I became the person I needed to be to achieve those goals.

I could have spent that much money on drugs an alcohol in 2 months (which is exactly what I did once) and ended up with nothing but poor health and low self-esteem.

The best investment you can make in is you.

Perfect! Humans were born to fail! Progress and success is only created because of a culmination of lessons learnt from all of our failures!

For example, when we learn to walk as toddlers, we fall over again and again and again. But we don't give up, we keep practicing until we can stand on both feet and walk shakily. The more we practice, the better we get. But if we were too afraid to fail and make mistakes, we may never try. And if we never tried, we would never learn how to walk.

In the HIQDA Membership Program, there is an entire module dedicated to how to use "failure" to help us to achieve success.

There is no such thing as failure, only feedback!

You can do as much or as little as you like. We understand that you might have a very busy life with many commitments.

Every week you will receive an email which will let you know which video lesson to watch and which reflection questions or task to do that week.

If you watch the video lesson, complete the task and show up to the weekly Accountability Classes then it will take you approximately 1.5-2 hours a week. However, you can do more or less as you like and you can catch up on classes in your own time.

NO, we recommend you continue drinking alcohol when you begin the program. We believe that it's important for you to start understanding the reasons behind WHY you drink alcohol and sometimes it will require you to be aware of and reflect on your thoughts/feelings/behaviours before, during and after drinking alcohol.

The reason why this program works so well is because it is all about you changing your mindset BEFORE saying NO to drinking alcohol. We will NEVER make you not drink, the choice to not drink alcohol will be YOUR choice ONLY.

Feel free to continue drinking alcohol and complete the program by following the steps. Eventually, you will find that you will no longer have the strong need or desire to drink alcohol.

This is why this program is the best way to stop! No struggling and no internal battles.

Good Question!
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the biggest internationally-known, free support group for people who identify as alcoholics. If a person believes they are an alcoholic, they find the closest AA meeting to them and travel to them every week. They recommend each person go to as many meetings as possible. In these sessions, each person gets to talk about their stories and learn about the 12 steps of recovery. There is a buddy system where you can talk to someone who has successfully quit drinking alcohol.

The beliefs of AA are that alcoholics have the illness of alcoholism and that they will ALWAYS have to manage their illness. The beliefs are based on religion, require you to hand your power over and seek help from a higher power to help you manage your illness.

The HIQDA Journey is different in that:
* We do not encourage the belief that you have an illness or that you are damaged. Instead, you have just learnt an un-resourceful way of handling certain situations and emotions.
* You can be of ANY belief system to join this program. You will not be required do believe in any kind of higher power.
* We believe YOU have the power to change your reality and your world in an instant. If you want to live completely free from addiction to alcohol, then that is a wonderful goal that you can absolutely achieve. You will not have to be managing an "illness".
* You can quit or cut down on drinking from your own home without having to go anywhere.
* You will NOT be judged for drinking alcohol throughout the program. AA believes in 100% sobriety and that drinking alcohol is not good enough. We will support you throughout your journey, no matter how many times you drink alcohol.
* You can do the program in your own time. You do not HAVE to show up every week to the sessions. This is YOUR journey, YOU get to choose how you do it.

Rehabilitation Centres are places where you can go to to help you detox from alcohol addiction. The quality of these services vary quite a lot as this is an unregulated industry. Any person can set up a rehabilitation centre without any qualifications. People can either become an in-patient where they live in the centre for a number of weeks or months, or an out-patient where they live at home and travel to the centre every day, or get a specialist to come with you to your home.

Most rehabs are VERY expensive and the success rate of them are quite low. Just because you go to a rehab and detox off alcohol for a number of weeks, does not mean you won't drink alcohol when you leave. Rehabs take away all the triggers for drinking alcohol, when you go back into society, all the triggers are still there. Many rehab centres do not have a focus on a person's mindset which is the BIGGEST reason why we drink alcohol.

The HIQDA Membership Program works on helping you to create a resourceful and resilient mindset that allows you to say no to alcohol when there will be triggers wherever you go! It is also exponentially cheaper and you can do it from the safety of your own home!