Ep. 234: A Habit Change Approach To Quitting Drinking

The Hello Someday Podcast For Sober Curious Women

Casey McGuire Davidson: Sober Coach

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

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Have you been trying to break your habit of drinking using willpower, positive inspiration or negative, fear-based motivation by trying to avoid negative consequences? If you haven’t been successful in your attempts to stop drinking using this approach it’s actually not your fault. Instead you've likely just been trying to make a long term behavior change in all the wrong ways. There are easy ways and hard ways to break a habit, and research into the science of behavior change shows that willpower just doesn’t work in the long term. In this episode I’m going to talk about how to break your habit of drinking in four simple steps - without relying on willpower or hating the process.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Hello Sunday podcast, the podcast for busy women who are ready to drink less and live more.
0:10.6	I'm Casey McGuire Davidson, ex-red wine girl turned life coach, helping women create lives they love without alcohol.
0:18.8	But it wasn't that long ago that I was anxious, overwhelmed, and drinking
0:23.0	a bottle of wine a night to unwind. I thought that wine was the clue, holding my life together,
0:28.9	helping me cope with my kids, my stressful job, and my busy life. I didn't realize that my love
0:35.4	affair with drinking was making me more anxious and less able to
0:39.5	manage my responsibilities. In this podcast, my goal is to teach you the tried and true secrets
0:45.9	of creating and living a life you don't want to escape from. Each week, I'll bring you tools,
0:52.5	lessons, and conversations to help you drink less and live more.
0:57.1	I'll teach you how to navigate our drinking-obsessed culture without a buzz, how to sit with your emotions when you're lonely or angry, frustrated, or overwhelmed.
1:07.3	How to self-soothe without a drink, and how to turn the decision to stop drinking from your
1:13.0	worst case scenario to the best decision of your life. I am so glad you're here. Now let's get
1:19.5	started. Hey, it's Casey. If you've been thinking about taking a break from drinking but
1:27.0	keep pushing it off,
1:29.0	this is your sign to do something different.
1:32.3	I know what it's like to wake up again thinking, why did I drink last night?
1:36.9	I wasn't even planning to.
1:38.8	Or to tell yourself, I'll take a break next week or after that next big event or maybe next month.
1:45.8	But here's the thing.
1:47.7	Waiting doesn't make it easier.
1:50.7	What does?
1:51.8	A game plan that actually works.
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