This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this Naked Mind Podcast where without

judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi friends, it's Annie Grace and I am the author of this Naked Mind and I'm

answering questions and I'm here in Colorado we're about to get about four feet

of snow so the forecast says so we've stocked up but today's question is this I

would love to hear more about your experience before you finally gave in and

decided that moderation is a waste of time and energy why can people

moderate so that's the question and yeah I believe that some people can

moderate I mean either alcohol hasn't become important to them so drinking less

is really easy and they're just not thinking about it or they're really

willing to take the time and effort to do it and I mean case in point there's

the guy that I know and he drinks 17 units of alcohol every Friday night he

doesn't drink any other day during the week and he's been doing this since 2002

so I think that you there are exceptions but I think what you know the entire

key for me is changing my perception changing the thought and the neuro pathway so

that my perspective is no longer that I don't get to drink but that I don't have

to drink that I don't want to drink and that type of freedom having alcohol

becomes small and irrelevant and nonexistent in my life that's what I want

for myself so changing my perception to I don't actually want to put that in my

body means that the moderation question become nonexistent for me but it

took of course a journey to get there and part of that change is truly

understanding the ins and outs of moderation what it means physically and

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