This quick-hit guide hands you five powerful tools (plus AI prompts in your pocket) to help you pause the craving, break the pattern, and choose yourself instead of the drink.
Interrupt the craving before it hijacks your brain
Understand what’s really happening in your body when the urge hits (it’s not weakness, it’s wiring)
Ride the wave without white-knuckling or self-shaming
End the “screw-it” spiral that turns one drink into too many
Wake up proud instead of panicked
These 5 craving hacks give you the science, structure, and mindset shifts to reclaim your edge when the urge hits.
I’m Pamela Rueda, founder of My Badass Recovery and Thrive Collective. Certified recovery coach, speaker, Insight Timer teacher. Sure, I’ve got the titles. But let’s be real: titles don’t save you at 8PM when the craving hits.
Here’s what matters.
I drank through boardrooms and breakdowns. I held on to five long years of “perfect” sobriety, white-knuckled and miserable. Then I relapsed for two.
And then I rose.
I rebuilt everything from the ground up into a sobriety that’s not quiet or polite, but loud, liberating, and mine. I've been on this journey for 15 years now.
I don’t peddle shame or pretend your drinking is a bad habit to break. I give you the tools that work when your brain is screaming for relief, when the f*ck-it switch flips and you feel like you don’t have a choice.
Tools that stopped my spiral. Tools that gave me my power back.
This guide is one of them.
A lifeline, straight from someone who knows exactly what that 8PM craving feels like, and how to break free.
Thank you for starting your journey with me.
X. P
