EP 242: Reader Question - Why Am I Not Getting It?
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Unconsciously drifting back into drinking. It’s more common than you might think. What happens when we understand all the science and logic but continue slipping back into old drinking habits? Is it really possible for the brain to permanently readjust? Annie offers some great advice for staying mindful and continuing to build on alcohol free momentum.
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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 | Hi, everyone. It's Annie Grace. I'll throw this naked mind and I have a great question |
| 0:32.3 | today. This is a question I've kind of been back and forth for a few times. This question |
| 0:35.9 | is from Joy and Joy says, I've read a huge amount on the subject of alcohol addiction |
| 0:40.6 | and have tried many times to get it up. William Porter's alcohol explained is also based on |
| 0:44.8 | neuroscience and research and he liked you, talks a lot of sense. I gave up drinking for seven |
| 0:49.0 | months last time with that bill's help. My big question is why do you think I'm not really |
| 0:53.6 | getting it in the way you described? The reprogramming of my deep unconscious conditioning. This really |
| 0:58.5 | puzzles me as I'm totally committed and even evangelical about all the science and the mind when |
| 1:04.3 | I'm doing the programs, but up to date I've always slipped back and it's depressing. Please let |
| 1:09.1 | me know what you think I'd love to be free. On a second related topic, do you think it's possible |
| 1:14.0 | for the brain to readjust so that pleasure chemical response go back to the way they were |
| 1:19.0 | were before the drinking addiction? I'm worried that my capacity to feel real pleasure from other |
| 1:23.6 | things besides alcohol might be permanently compromised. I asked her and I said, I do think the |
| 1:29.5 | brain can readjust, but sometimes it takes years. It was two years before I personally got off |
| 1:33.8 | all the antidepressants was on and I started to feel really good, but I wanted to ask her a follow-up |
| 1:38.5 | question. So I said, Joy, but in terms of why you're not getting it, I think you actually are |
| 1:42.9 | getting it, but alcohol is so addictive that when you dread mindlessly back and you drink even |
| 1:47.2 | just once, you can very easily fall back and lose track. So I asked her, Joy, can you describe what |
| 1:52.4 | happened when you started drinking after seven months? And here was Joy's response. She said, |
| 1:56.8 | anything's her answer. So the last time I gave up for seven months, the longest so far, I just |
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