Permanent Alcohol Recovery is Taking Over
“Permanent alcohol recovery is replacing “the one day at a time” sobriety philosophy!”
Finally, our day has come.
We walk away from an old, over-utilized, and ineffective concept of sobriety into a new world that we call “David Essel‘s Permanent Alcohol and Addiction Recovery Program.“
Yes, I walked the line as an alcoholic and addict for 30 years, starting at the age of 12.
The first several times even as a professional, who was helping other people get sober while I was still struggling, I tried to get sober by doing it just “one day at a time”.
It’s an old formula that people rave about, which is extremely ineffective when it comes to long-term recovery. So 30 years ago we dropped following the crowd, and we created an alcohol and addiction recovery program that’s based on a permanent commitment for the rest of people’s lives.
And it works! As a matter of fact, it works every time!
The concept of getting sober one day at a time has been around for 80 years, and while it may have been a lifesaver for people 80 years ago, because of the increased information coming out in the world of addiction recovery, we needed to do something different.
The last time I checked, programs that are following and promoting the “one day at a time” sobriety concept, have about a 10% success rate… That means they have about a 90% failure rate!
And why is that? Because there’s no commitment!
Anyone can say they’re not going to drink for one day at a time… But the people in those programs rarely are successful long-term, as a matter of fact, rarely do many of them average 365 days in a row of sobriety.
In our permanent alcohol and addiction recovery program, we share with people within the first several weeks of working with us, that we’re going to make a full-time commitment, we’re going to make a 100% commitment to sobriety and recovery for the rest of our lives.
It just doesn’t make sense to ask someone to commit one day at a time when they’ve struggled with their addictions for five years or 10 years or in my case 30 years or longer!
We need to get serious in the world of recovery, and one day at a time just isn’t cutting it. But when I can talk to people about permanent, full-time, sobriety and recovery for the rest of their lives, and share with them the benefits that thousands of people who have followed this program have received over the past 30 years, we get people excited about getting sober!
We get people excited about becoming fully recovered!
When they leave our program, we tell them that there’s no need to call themselves a recovering alcoholic or a recovering addict, we just say to use their full name with nothing else needed.
Even though it’s been a very long time since I have completely recovered, I never say “Hi I’m David Essel a former alcoholic or a former addict“, I just say “Hi I’m David Essel.“
That’s it. It’s permanent.
And let me give you an example of how powerful this program is, and this is a personal example and I’ll also give one of someone else as well.
When I decided to get sober a very long time ago I knew that the recovery system was in great trouble, the treatment center that I went to was adequate but not good.
So I started talking to my clients about committing to recovery for life. To commit to sobriety for life. And it’s not hard to do when you have them write their story of addiction, how they’ve lost relationships, money, maybe they’ve run into health problems, maybe they’ve run into relationship or career problems, and when you get them to see in writing all the chaos their addiction has caused over the years, it’s much simpler to get them to commit to full-time, lifetime recovery because they understand the chaos they’ve had for the last number of years.
In the last year and a half both my mother and father passed away, I was deeply in love with them both since my mid-20s when I finally realized how incredible they were as my parents.
I loved them with all my heart, constantly posting social media pictures of my mom, my dad, my brother, and my sister so that everyone in the world knew how much I love my family. When they both got extremely ill four years ago, it would’ve been so easy through the stress, especially watching my mother die of dementia, to reach out for a drink or to escape for a weekend with a bag of cocaine. But instead, not one time over the four years of their suffering and dying did I even think about having a drink!
Over the four years of their death and dying, which was so painful not only for them but for the whole family, not one time did I ever consider doing any type of drug or alcohol to escape the pain.
I have taught myself, the same principles I teach all of my clients, that once we are fully recovered there will be no temptation regardless of what we go through to have a drink again or to go back to the drug lifestyle we were used to.
It’s very interesting when I have a client that accepts the commitment of a life free of addiction, how over just a few weeks they start to get excited about how their life is going to radically change. But this “one day at a time” stuff just doesn’t cut it.
Can you imagine, if you’re dating someone and you ask them to marry you, and they look at you excitedly and scream “yes!“ But what would they say if you followed it up with this line: “Honey I’m so excited to marry you, we’re going to have an amazing life together, but I’m only going to marry you one day at a time. So every morning when we get up we will get married again.“
Do you think your partner would be thrilled? Excited? Neither do I. If they were smart, they would grab their belongings and run out the door.
We’ve got to change the philosophy of recovery in this program.
A client that I helped get sober over 10 years ago recently sent me an email and I’m going to paraphrase what she said:
“David, ever since I got out of the mindset of trying to get sober one day at a time and bought into your permanent alcohol recovery program, my life has radically changed as you said it would. My husband, who had multiple times actually tried to get me out of his life, loves me more now than I could ever believe.
But more importantly David, I love myself now more than I could ever believe! In my world of alcoholism, I was drowning in self-pity, guilt, and shame looking for any opportunity to escape the real-world emotions that I didn’t want to deal with.
After you taught me the tool of emotional regulation, combined with a commitment to sobriety for life, everything, and I mean everything in my life changed!
I’m so glad I dropped the old model and followed your new proactive model into a full-time, and full-blown commitment to sobriety and recovery. I talk about you all the time to my friends still struggling. They understand the concept, and I encourage them to work with you every day.
Thank you, for saving my life, and for giving me my life back.“ Patricia, New York
There are hundreds of stories I could share just like the above. Join our “permanent alcohol and addiction recovery program today“, at www.davidessel.com
This new permanent recovery program will become the wave of the future, so let’s ride the wave together.“
David Essel‘s work has been highly endorsed by individuals like the late Wayne Dyer, and celebrity Jenny McCarthy says, “David Essel is the new leader of the positive thinking movement.“
His work as a counselor and minister has been verified, by organizations like Psychology Today, Therapy Tribe, Theravive, and marriage.com have verified David is one of the top counselors and relationship experts in the world
To reach David simply visit https://www.davidessel.com
