{"product_id":"alcohol-is-lying-to-you","title":"ALCOHOL IS LYING TO YOU","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Myths, Lies, and Social Scripts That Keep You Drinking—and How to See Through Them\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAlcohol has never been sold to you as alcohol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt's been sold as confidence, relaxation, courage, elegance, freedom — friendship in a glass. For your entire adult life it has stood next to the things you actually wanted, and quietly taken credit for them. It didn't create the connection, the relief, or the celebration. It just learned how to attach itself to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis book pulls that story apart, one lie at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e27 Lies. One Very Convincing Story.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCounselor and hypnotherapist Ian Bates spent twenty years listening to smart, self-aware people explain why the drink they'd started to question was still, somehow, fine. What he kept hearing wasn't weakness — it was a script. A set of stories so familiar, repeated so often, by so many people, that no one had stopped to ask whether they were actually true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlcohol Is Lying to You\u003c\/em\u003e asks. Chapter by chapter, it takes apart lies including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Relaxation Lie\u003c\/strong\u003e — alcohol doesn't calm you down; it interrupts the anxiety it helped create in the first place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Moderation Lie\u003c\/strong\u003e — the quiet math behind \"just one,\" and why it rarely stays that way\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Comparison Lie\u003c\/strong\u003e — how \"at least I'm not as bad as…\" keeps you exactly where you are\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Health Lie, the Mental Health Lie, and the Memory \u0026amp; Behavior Lie\u003c\/strong\u003e — what the drink actually does, long after the buzz fades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Industry Lie and the Advertising Lie\u003c\/strong\u003e — who profits from the story, and why it was never written with your best interests in mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Identity Lie\u003c\/strong\u003e — the quiet fear that without the drink, there's no \"you\" left underneath\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty-seven lies in total, each one exposed with the same clear, patient method: not shame, not scare tactics — just an honest look at how the story was built, and exactly how it falls apart once you see it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNot a Recovery Manual. Not a Rulebook.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis isn't a book about willpower, and it isn't here to lecture you. It doesn't ask you to label yourself, hit a breaking point, or make a dramatic declaration about the rest of your life. It's an unflinching, page-by-page unmasking of the most convincing lie most of us never think to question — written for the moment when you've already had the quiet thought that something doesn't add up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat the drink promises more than it delivers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat it costs more than it admits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis book puts words to that thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOnce You See It, You Can't Fully Unsee It\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYou don't have to decide anything yet. You don't have to quit, cut back, or commit to anything at all. You just have to see the story clearly — the one that's been told so often you stopped noticing it was a story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAfter that, whatever you decide is actually yours.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian Bates Author","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55446186295638,"sku":null,"price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0786\/3579\/4774\/files\/AlcoholIsLyingEbookCover3dTablet.png?v=1789995793","url":"https:\/\/ianbatesauthor.com\/products\/alcohol-is-lying-to-you","provider":"Ian Bates Author","version":"1.0","type":"link"}