EP 136: Reader Question - Do you have to figure out all the stuff inside you before you can heal?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Do I need to go back and relive what caused me to start drinking in the first place in order to fully heal? Annie Grace answers this question using research and study findings to help answer this question. She shares the importance of taking care of our bodies both physically and mentally, including getting enough sleep, eating right, and exercise as a big part of healing from the inside out.

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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.
0:28.9	Hi friends, it's Annie Grace and I am the author of this naked mind and I am answering readers
0:34.0	questions and today I have a question from Amy and Amy asks, Annie, do you think you need to figure
0:40.4	out where the addiction came from inside yourself before you can get better? In other words,
0:45.0	all the stuff that made us want to drink to numb, does it all have to be revisited or can we just
0:51.2	pick up and move on? And I think it's a really good and profound question and the answer is probably
0:56.7	not the same for Amy, you're here and I'm answering your question. Yay! The answer is probably not the
1:03.1	same for everybody but I think it's a yes and no, yes we can pick up and move on and yes to some
1:10.7	degree we probably need to look at things but I think the crux of the question has to do with how
1:15.8	you feel about yourself because if how you feel about yourself is that you want to sort of self
1:22.3	destruct and drinking is one way we do that very frequently is we you know sure we started drinking
1:30.0	to numb and it all started very innocent but once we feel stuck, once we feel like we can't get
1:35.2	out anyway, once we feel like we start to not trust ourselves because we're making decisions,
1:40.1	we're not comfortable with and once the cognitive dissonance of wanting to drink and not wanting to
1:45.5	drink is really high both in the situations where we're abstaining but making ourselves miserable
1:51.7	in in the situations where we're drinking and making bad decisions and making ourselves miserable
1:56.8	our self-value plummets and at that point in time I think a lot of drinking can become punishment in
2:06.3	a way and we don't think of it as punishment but that seventh eighth beer when you know you're going
2:10.5	to get sick anyway, you know doing it and just saying like what the heck, you know those things
2:16.6	are because you don't feel worthwhile and so if there's things in your life that have led you to
2:22.2	not feel worthwhile, I think they need to be addressed. The good news is that I think that you can
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