I dreamt that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting

that his story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning

that you might be a treasure.

I could touch but never hold.

Hey, welcome back to the Superful podcast.

I'm Veronica Valley.

And today we are going to be talking about what is a normal drinker?

Because this is definitely a question that most people

ask themselves when they are trying to figure out what's going on with their relationship

with alcohol. I hear this so many times, I just want to be a normal drinker or I just want to drink sociably.

Those are two things that I hear a lot.

And everyone has to go through this process, right?

If you're going to stop drinking, that decision is a process.

It is not like just something you make in five seconds. And part of that process is the

wrestling with like, what is a normal drinker? Can I be a normal drinker? So we're going to dive deep

into that today. And I want you to leave the end of this episode with clarity. Like I want you to be really, really clear about what we mean when we say what is a normal

drinker, whether you are a normal drinker or not, whether you can be a normal drinker or not.

And to do that, I'm going to blow quite a few myths out of the water.

Now, I want to tell you the first thing,

when we talk about being a normal drinker, there's no such thing. Alcohol is a carcinogenic

central nervous system depressant. It is so toxic for you that if we invented alcohol today, right, if someone came along

went, oh, I've invented alcohol, blimey, you know, this is what it does to you. We wouldn't

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