You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Kostio episode number 117.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brook Kostio.

Hi, and welcome to part two of Stop Overdrinking.

In part one, we talked about the reasons why we desire to drink, and how it's a learned desire, and how we actually trained ourselves and practiced ourselves into that desire.

In part two, we're going to talk about why it's so challenging for us to quit once that desire is programmed.

And I'm going to talk about some of the reasons why I wanted to cut back on my drinking and quit my drinking and why I found it so challenging.

And then we're going to talk about the brain science behind it and how the brain science really reveals the reasons why it is so challenging.

And I want to remind you that the reason why we are able to quit is because we have our human brain, and the reason why it's so difficult to quit is because of our animal brain.

So when we learn how to overcome our animal brain with our human brain, then we're going to be all set.

So I referred to in the beginning that what has evolved us this far will not continue to evolve us unless we change it and we use the power of our brain to think about what we're thinking about and to become more conscious in order to evolve to the next level of I think human evolution.

So let's talk first about why most of us want to cut back and we can't I'm going to start with the reasons why I wanted to cut back.

I wanted to cut back because I really felt like there was a part of me that felt like I was out of control.

And I'm kind of a control freak. And so the idea of being out of control kind of freaked me out.

And I never liked the point where I got after like three glasses where it was kind of like I really genuinely didn't feel in control of myself.

The main reason for me what happened was I started I think because of my hormone changes because I'm in my 40s.

I started just feeling terrible. I was waking up in the middle of the night.

I wasn't able to go back to sleep and the next morning I was feeling terrible.

So what used to be a horrible hangover after lots of drinking in a party night out became how I would feel after maybe two drinks.

And I felt foggy and I just couldn't quite get on my game as much as I wanted to.

And yet in the evenings I found myself like really looking forward to going home and having a drink, going out to the bar and having a drink.

And I had these like conflicting desires that didn't make any sense to me.

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