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, this is Annie Grace and I hope that this will work because I've been having internet troubles.

So forgive me if it doesn't. This question is actually posted on my Facebook page yesterday

and it is from Helen and Helen asks, I've listened to the audio course every day for about two and a half

months while I haven't stopped drinking, my perception of wine has definitely changed. I find if I

can resist that first drink the rest is easy. When you first questioned if you were drinking too much

and started doing all your research for the book did you continue to drink but in smaller quantities

or one day did a light bulb moment happen and everything clicked and you decided to quit.

Thank you for your course it's been extremely helpful in my journey. So I did drink in smaller

quantities just somewhat naturally over the course of doing the research because there was

something about becoming aware it was like waking up in a sense and it's interesting because a lot

of people you know I say at the beginning of the book I say look don't cause any sense of deprivation.

Keep drinking through the book, keep drinking through the audio course until you feel like you want

to make a change. You need to want to make this change and I know that's different than other

approaches out there but for me what was going to work for me was really ending my internal struggle

and ending the cognitive distance that I had around drinking and cognitive distance can come from two

things right. It can come from doing something you don't want to be doing like drinking when you

don't want to be doing it and then feeling guilt from that you know equally it can come from not

doing something you do want to be doing and then feeling a whole sense of deprivation and missing

out and neither one of those options were good enough for me and I mean that was just the

blunt reality of it. I didn't want to be in a sense of deprivation or missing out or thinking

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