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What kinds of interests and activities can help a person who is quitting drinking?

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Judith Welles Cousins
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, private practitioner
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Judith has worked in the field of mental health and substance abuse since 1988,  She received her Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonweatlh University in 1991 and was licensed as a clinical social worker in 1994.  In her private practice, Judith sees adults, families, children and adolescents, and couples. She addresses such issues as substance abuse, depession, anxiety, family discord, couple conflict, poor school performance, and  life transitions. Judith believes that within each individual, family, and couple are the resources to change, heal, and thrive.  Through the process of psychotherapy, she assists clients to identify and use these resources to gain personal and relational well-being.      

What kinds of interests and activities can help a person who is quitting drinking?

In this video, Judy Cousins, Clinical Social Worker, will provide answers to questions regarding reasons to quit drinking. Judy will include information regarding the nature of alcohol use, the positive and negative consequences of use, and effective strategies for quitting drinking.

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Host: What kinds of interest and activities can help a person who is quitting drinking?

Judith W.

Cousins: When a person is changing their lifestyle and they stop drinking. Some of the kinds of things that they can do, some of the kinds of activity that they can involve themselves in are for -- and there are many. For instance, exercising, running, going back to the gym, working out, bicycling, physical activity is really important when a person is healing, their health as well as their emotional self. Some of the old activities the person has given up because they have been drinking. For instance, people -- for example, have said to me well they used to paint or they used to draw or they used to be a part of a singing group.

So, those are the activities that people can resume. They can also look in new activities joining a hiking group or joining a reading group or joining a group at a church. So, those are some of the -- there are so many, but those are some of the examples of ways that people can begin to involve in some of their activities.

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