101 Introductions

Introduce yourself, what you're into and what excites you about The 101 Program and the Zaadz.com community!

Re: 101 Introductions

Hello,

I'm Elizabeth and began the program in January of 2005. I had spent the previous 20 years drinking.

I had been in inpatient rehab,  a daily outpatient rehab program, I had joined and left AA about 16 times, I had taken antabuse and  tried every program under the sun when I read about this one on the Internet.

It made sense to me because I knew that anytime I did manage to stop drinking, my sugar consumption went into overdrive and I knew there was some kind of physical component to my drinking .  I just knew it wasn't all in my head and that other people drank and it did not have the same effect on them it did on me.

I was at the end of my rope when I found Genita's program. I have 3 beautiful children and a wonderful husband, a great job but I literally spent every day in a bottle, from the moment I woke up until I passed out I drank and I had been doing it so long I had some people fooled, but not everyone.

I was dying inside. There was no more joy in life there was only alcohol and it brought me no pleasure anymore.

I tried Genita's program as a last resort and amazingly it worked. I was too frightened to believe it at first I kept waiting for the overwhelming craving to hit and for me to go back to drinking but it never happened.

Its 2 years later, my family has joy, I have joy and anyone who has this terrible biochemical inbalance can also find joy through this program. I really believe this. I am living proof.

Elizabeth

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Hi, I'm Cherbee,
I went through hell and back before I found this program in September '06. 
I prayed for years that God would help me find my way through this and finally I found his answer on the Internet one night when I was trying to find some kind of online support group, being hesitant to join AA because as you know, it's not anonymous, even though it should be.
I ordered the book online, then I contacted the 101 program and I've been working my way through it ever since.
It was really amazing.  My anxiety and my urge to drink alcohol literally left me in the first week.  I spent a lot of that week sobbing with a mixture of joy and apprehension- feeling for the first time in about 10 years what I had always wanted to feel -a 'normal' relationship with alcohol.  Like Elisabeth I was for a long time waiting for the whole thing to collapse and to start feeling lousy again, but I just don't need alcohol now.
This has changed my life to an unbelievable degree. I think I embarass the author by gushing at her with my thanks.  But how do you thank someone for giving you your life back?
Hope to hear some of the rest of the stories.
Cherbee

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Hi there, I’m not using the 101 program specifically but I have been on a vitamin regimen designed to rebalance the brain on a physiological level, after years of substance abuse. It’s based on the Power Method of recovery by Dr. Gant. I’ve been a heavy drinker for years but started some strange habits of sometimes compulsively drinking in the last year so I’m addressing this so I can be free and peaceful and content. I’m hopeful and excited to have found a path of recovery that makes sense to me. I discovered the 101 program after some internet searching and it sounds very similar to what I am already doing and I am eager to incorporate any and everything that supports this type of recovery so I thought I’d join to get some insight from you guys. So, that’s that. Looking forward to whatever help this brings not only with this part of my journey, but with my bigger quest to live without such deep, internal struggle and with a soul free to be happy and open and alive. Thanks~Jennifer

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I've been drinking for 22-years.  I started when I was 19, exactly on my birthday, because that was the legal age back then.  I was always the party animal in college, I just never outgrew that title.  I've been to “treatment” several times.  I tried the AA thing, but only seemed to get more depressed.  As alcohol began to due damage to my health, and I knew conventional “wisdom” didn't work, I started to read a book by Chris Prentis, the father of an alcoholic and heroin addict, who was relentless in helping his son get healthy after all conventional methods failed.  The holistic approach seemed to make so much more sense to me.  Further research brought me to the 101 program (thank you Genita)……  I was already seeing a Naturopath/Health Minister in Memphis, and he agreed to integrate the 101 program into his plan for me.

Long story short….here I am, incredibly excited to start the Krispy Klean (not as excited as when I misread and thought I was getting Krispy Kreme…I love the donuts).  Got the blender, ordered the juicer, waiting on the supplements hopefully getting here soon, made my first trip to the Wild Oats……………..bring it “alcoholism”,  I'm ready to kick your a@# butt

Your support is greatly appreciated.

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Hey, my name’s Neil. First off, I want to thank Miss Genita for writing her book!  I’ve just begun and I think this is going to be great.  Hope, something I haven’t had in a while when it comes to my 30 year drinking career.  Funny the way I found out about it.  I was on YouTube looking for new ideas as to what might help me to get sober, pardon the “get sober”, I still have a lot of AAism’s in my head.  Well I kept coming across AA videos and anti-AA videos and the more I drank that day the less I cared and I ended up just fighting with AA’ers on YouTube.  Let me say that I don’t have a problem with AA itself, but some of the stuff I was seeing was really making me mad.  So I come across this nice looking woman who has her ideas about “alcoholism” so I figure well let’s check her out.  I looked at the video of her in her office (I guess it was her office), and I’m like Hmm, she’s hot.  Let me send her a message and tell her I think she’s hot!  Well I paused on that idea for a moment to see what she actually had to say.  I sent her a message telling her what my initial intentions were, but then I went on to question her sincerity, and whether or not she really cared or was just trying to make money off of people.  I don’t think I did it in a disrespectful way though, she seemed sincere, but I’ve been there done that.  She replied to my message the next day, and I read it in a hungover fog (20- 6% alcohol beers and 8 narcotic painkillers), fog is putting it mildly I was shaking like a leaf (I didn’t eat at all that whole day) I felt like I was about to explode, would be more accurate. Without going into details, she convinced me of her sincerity.  I just started reading the book today, and this is something that I think will work.  I’ll keep you guys posted and I appreciate those of you who have posted previously with success stories.   Hope to hear from some of you!