EP 128: Reader Question - How to deal with alcohol triggers?
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
What’s the deal with triggers? And how do I deal with them? Annie delivers an answer for this common question, that will help us connect the dots and understand why triggers and cravings are so problematic, including the role dopamine plays in this issue. Annie takes it one step further and gives us hope, by explaining that YES…triggers can eventually be a non-issue if we use our conscious mind to change the structure of our brain.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without |
| 0:15.2 | judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi friends, it's Annie Grace. I am out and about and it is kind of windy but I'm not going to |
| 0:35.3 | feel my office at all today so I thought I'd do a live video out here and let's see if this works. |
| 0:40.5 | Hopefully it'll be okay. So again this is Annie Grace, author of this naked mind and today I am |
| 0:46.0 | answering a question from Claire. Claire wants to know she says I would like to hear what you think |
| 0:51.1 | about triggers. For example, Friday nights are seeing certain friends I can go from not thinking |
| 0:56.1 | about alcohol at all to full on craving because I've seen an image or I've heard somebody mentioned it. |
| 1:02.8 | Honestly I think if there were no external triggers I would never even think about drinking and |
| 1:07.5 | it would be so much easier. I can relate to that. I think that when I first stopped drinking and it |
| 1:13.8 | was so surprising that I never thought about it especially because most of my drinking ended up |
| 1:17.6 | being by myself often in my room when I was on trips or home or whatever and I thought wow if |
| 1:24.8 | if there was I was just on some deserted island without alcohol and without advertising without |
| 1:30.0 | people who drank I would literally never even cross my mind to even have a thought about alcohol. |
| 1:37.1 | And I think that's because we do we have cravings and triggers especially in the early days and |
| 1:41.6 | they can be pretty hard to deal with but I guess first I'd say Claire like what a blessing that you're |
| 1:46.9 | not thinking about at the rest of the time because that I think is a huge thing and you're already |
| 1:51.6 | so far kind of ahead of the game so to speak but you know triggers what's happening inside your |
| 1:58.3 | brain when you have a trigger it's a dopamine release and the dopamine triggers and it triggers |
| 2:04.0 | that something is going to happen it's anticipation for something so I've talked before about |
| 2:08.9 | you know Pavlov's dogs and how initially what happened in that experiment is they would be |
| 2:13.9 | ringing a bell and the bell would mean food at that instant and so the dogs would salivate for |
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