EP 119: Why Am I Stuck?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Self-improvement, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

For some people, the transition to a sober life is not such a slam dunk. Rather, it feels like an unreachable goal that will never be achieved. Join Annie in today’s podcast as she addresses the issue of feeling ‘stuck’. You’ll learn about the 3 S’s and why it’s harder for some to live a naked life than others and what to do when it just isn’t clicking.

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,
0:16.0	pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.0	Hi this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I'm so excited to be here with you
0:33.0	today and I've been doing a lot of these monologue type podcasts. I know we usually have reader story or a naked
0:40.0	life story and I have plenty of those stacked up for you but there's a few things that I've been discovering
0:44.0	recently as I've really been putting a lot of research into the live event that I'm doing actually just
0:51.0	it's starting within a few days and new stuff that I've been researching for upcoming materials and books and
0:58.0	stuff and one of the questions that I've been asking myself and then I have to ask myself and then I probably
1:03.0	be irresponsible if I wasn't asking myself is why is it instantaneous light bulb,
1:11.0	spontaneous sobriety, so easy, so effortless for some people upon reading this naked mind and or going through
1:17.0	the alcohol experiment and then for other people it takes a little bit more effort and then for other people
1:23.0	they just continue to be stuck on you know stringing just a few days together here or there and they write me
1:29.0	emails and they say Annie, Annie I know it all I know everything I want to change I desire to change I'm committed
1:36.0	to change but I keep drinking why is that and it's interesting because I wouldn't say it's a huge
1:44.0	majority of people I think that but there are those people and I can't help but put my attention
1:50.0	there you know I love hearing the success stories I'd say in my inbox I get probably between 60
1:57.0	and 70 emails a day you know definitely thousands thousands of emails a month and a huge huge
2:01.0	huge majority of them are just thank you and success stories and they're so awesome but I have to be
2:06.0	really honest with you that it's awesome as that is it's not it's not with pulls my heart strings so
2:11.0	pulls my heart strings is the people who know everything they get everything they love everything but they just can't
2:18.0	figure it out and so I've been putting a lot of time into this question why why is it that some people
2:24.0	it's on a dime spontaneous sobriety no problem and then other people really really struggle
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