The 10-Day Alcohol Detox Plan for Your Brain, Body, Heart, and Soul
This is a clear, compassionate, hard-hitting 10-day alcohol detox plan for people who know alcohol has started taking more than it gives. It's about telling the truth for ten days and seeing what alcohol has actually been doing to your life.
Why "Just Not Drinking" Isn't Enough
Alcohol doesn't only affect the body. It trains the brain, unsettles the nervous system, damages sleep, increases anxiety, distorts emotions, weakens self-trust, and slowly interferes with the deeper sense of who you are. A real detox has to work on all of it — not just the glass in your hand.
Ten Days. Four Essential Areas.
Read one chapter a day for ten days. No overwhelm, no cramming — just the next right step, one day at a time.
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Brain — cravings, bargaining, "just one" thoughts, triggers, emotional thinking, and the mental traps that keep alcohol in place
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Body — safety, withdrawal awareness, hydration, food, sleep, early repair, energy, and the physical cost alcohol has been asking you to ignore
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Heart — shame, grief, loneliness, fear, self-respect, connection, and the emotional needs alcohol has been pretending to meet
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Soul — your essence, identity, meaning, conscience, hope, and the part of you that knows you were made for more than another night lost to the bottle
Two Tools You'll Keep Using Long After Day 10
Along the way, you'll build a Craving Plan and a Trigger Map — simple, practical tools designed to be there whenever the pull comes back, long after the ten days are over.
This Book Is For You If
- You've tried to cut back or quit before, and it didn't stick
- You're not interested in meetings, labels, or being told what to call yourself
- You want a short, honest reset — Dry January, a personal deadline, or the start of something longer
- You're tired of white-knuckling it and want to actually feel the relief, not just grit your teeth through it
- You want a plan that treats you like an adult, not a project
With daily reflections, practical actions, safety guidance, craving plans, emotional clarity, and a 30-day continuation plan, This Stops Now helps you move through the first crucial days without alcohol and begin protecting the life alcohol could never give you.
This is not a book about hitting rock bottom. It's a book about finally listening to the part of you that already knows.
This stops now.
A Note From Ian
I spent the best part of thirty years functioning on whisky and beer. For a long time, I could explain it away, minimize it, point to people who were worse, and find another reason why tonight was understandable. Alcohol is remarkably good at that. It doesn't need you to believe it's good for you. It only needs you to believe that this time makes sense.
I know what it's like to recognize the truth and still resist it. I also know how easy it is to believe you're the only person who can't seem to get this right. You aren't.
I'm also a practicing counselor and hypnotherapist with more than 20 years of experience, with a background in psychology, psychotherapy, and a master's degree in philosophy. That professional experience matters — though so does the fact that I've lived this from the inside.
This book won't shame you, flatter you, or lecture you from a safe distance. I'll speak plainly, because alcohol survives remarkably well behind softened language: unwinding, taking the edge off, having a few. The words sound harmless. The consequences often aren't.
Get your copy today — and start Day One.
