362: Do You Drink Too Much? with Annie Grace

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Lucas Rockwood

Love, Detox, Food, Yogabody, Pranayama, Vegan, Selfimprovement, Self-improvement, Relationships, Meditation, Breathing, Education, Emotions, Mental, Vegetarian, Inspiring, Leader, Balance, Motivating, Weightloss, Flexibility, Habits, Health, Motivation, Yoga, Nutrition

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🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

That glass of red wine after dinner soon turns into two or three. On Friday and Saturday, two or three often turns into a bottle or two. After a decade or more of drinking, it’s not uncommon to clock in 30+ drinks per week. It creeps up slowly, so it can almost go unnoticed. But your body, mind, and spirit notice, and it has a real impact. On this week’s show, you’ll meet a very successful executive who didn’t start drinking until her late 20s but quickly found herself living a lifestyle that she didn’t want as her trajectory.

Alcohol abuse comes in all sizes and shapes, and most people who drink fit the Center for Disease Control’s definition of excessive drinking. What does that mean for you? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything is going just great. Or maybe it means that you should reevaluate your relationship with alcohol and make sure you’re writing a story you’d like to author.

Listen & Learn:

How 8 drinks per week (for women) and 15 drinks per week (for men) is classified as “excessive” by the CDC
How the mind-body connection plays a role in pain, addiction, and substance abuse
How alcohol is baked into adult life, professional life, and almost every culture on the planet
Simple ways to rethink your alcohol relationship

Links & Resources:

This Naked Mind

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Annie Grace grew up in a one-room log cabin without running water or electricity outside of Aspen, Colorado. By the age of 26, Annie was the youngest vice president in a multinational company, and her drinking career began in earnest. By 35, in a global C-level marketing role, she was responsible for marketing in 28 countries and drinking almost two bottles of wine a night. She left her executive role to write her book, This Naked Mind.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:03.0	welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show I'm a yoga teacher I'm a trainer I'm a nutritional coach I'm an entrepreneur
0:09.2	and I'm a father but first and foremost I'm a student and this show is really about me
0:13.7	scratching my own itch to learn and I invite authors and experts and medical doctors and
0:19.7	researchers and yoga teachers and anyone who I think will have some great information
0:25.0	to help you live a more fulfilled life.
0:27.0	On this week's show, we'll be talking about alcohol,
0:30.0	specifically stopping drinking.
0:32.0	And this has been a recurring theme recently.
0:35.0	We've had a few different guests on the show talking about minor anywhere from minor to very major
0:40.6	alcohol problems and figuring out thinking about strategic ways to get over that and
0:45.0	that sounds really obvious and that sounds really clear you know you check yourself into
0:48.9	A&A and you quit drinking but the reality is most people are not what might be stereotypically thought of as
0:54.3	alcoholics. Most people have not bottomed out in a way that might be on a you know
0:59.6	a Sunday afternoon television show.
1:02.5	Most people are functionally drinking and it's really making a mess of their life
1:07.4	in very small, subtle compounding ways over the years.
1:12.1	And oftentimes that one glass of wine after dinner turns into two, turns into three,
1:16.0	and within a decade or so, many people are up to 20 to 35 drinks per week,
1:20.0	which is a disaster for your health, it's a disaster for your mood, and it will
1:25.3	definitely shorten your lifespan.
1:27.2	There's this idea that red wine is healthy or something like this.
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