EP 239: Coaching Questions with Scott Pinyard

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

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🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, This Naked Mind head coach Scott Pinyard answers three questions about navigating the holidays while keeping alcohol small and irrelevant. Whether it’s dealing with with family and office gatherings, or all the stuff that happens this time of the year, or managing feelings of loneliness or disconnectedness during this season, Scott offers insight, perspective, and tips.

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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.
0:20.2	Hey everybody, it's Scott Pinyard, head coach at this Naked Mind and I am back with another
0:33.7	edition of coaching questions. Here we are. It's the holidays, right? It's a time of year
0:40.8	that is both fun and exciting and can also be extremely stressful. And we get a ton of
0:48.2	questions about navigating the holidays while keeping alcohol small and irrelevant. Lots of
0:55.1	questions about how to deal with family gatherings and office gatherings and all the stuff that
1:00.5	happens this time of year. And lots of other questions about how to deal with feelings of loneliness
1:05.8	or feelings of disconnectedness during this season. So I have chosen three questions from the long
1:12.3	list of questions that we have about this that I think covers the entire gambit. So I'm going to
1:18.6	dive right into those questions now. Question number one goes like this, hi, I'm usually so happy
1:25.5	about the holidays, but this year seems daunting. Ever since I started working on being alcohol-free,
1:31.7	I've really had a hard time with dealing with get-togethers. My family drinks and I used to drink
1:37.0	to deal with being with them. What can I do to keep my alcohol-free desires but still engage with
1:43.0	them while we're together? That's a fantastic question. Look, there's no doubt about it, right?
1:49.5	Family holiday gatherings are fun and can be stressful, right? There's all types of reasons why
1:57.9	people have a difficulty with these gatherings, whether it being the logistics or a small space
2:03.6	with a lot of people or differing opinions or intergenerational, how do we do this? How do we do
2:09.3	that? There's always stress that comes with these. And it can be overwhelming, right? And for a lot of
2:15.9	us for a long time, we use alcohol to cope with that, right? We use alcohol because we're stressed out
2:22.2	because we don't like whatever. We don't like the the way that the meals being prepared and instead
2:28.6	of fighting about it, we say, you know what? That's my mom. I'll just have a drink. I'll calm down. It'll
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