EP 248: Reader Question - Why can't I get unstuck?
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
“My subconscious does not want to change and it’s fighting my conscious desire to change … I feel like I need a brain transplant.” How do we move past the cycle of drinking and stopping and drinking and stopping over and over again and shift into an alcohol free life? Is it possible to give ourselves permission to go just one day without alcohol without worrying about never drinking again? How do we stop thinking about forever?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment, |
| 0:16.0 | pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture. |
| 0:20.2 | Hi, this is Annie Grace and I am answering readers questions and I got an email today from |
| 0:33.8 | I'm going to keep her name confidential actually and she says hi Annie, thank you so much for |
| 0:41.0 | your workshop. I really wish I would have been able to join. Sorry, this is a bit of a long |
| 0:46.5 | email and I've read your book and I thought it was great. In fact, I stopped drinking right |
| 0:52.2 | off the bat for about three weeks until a friend came around with wine and I thought a glass |
| 0:57.1 | won't hurt and that was it, bang and I'm consuming more than ever and I've always had an issue |
| 1:00.9 | with drink specifically with wine and I hate it but I love it at the same time. About three years |
| 1:05.4 | ago, I read Jason Bales' book and that changed my life. I understood the brainwashing and social |
| 1:09.2 | pressure and it clicked with me and I stopped drinking for six months even going on an all-inclusive |
| 1:14.0 | holiday without desiring a drink. Then I got, then myself and my now husband got engaged and |
| 1:19.3 | sister pressed a glass of Perseco into my hand and despite my proudestations, I had a sip and |
| 1:24.1 | that was it and I now feel that I'm beyond repair. I know and I understand all the reasons why, |
| 1:28.6 | the brainwashing, the chemical responses from reading your book, Jason Bales' book, Alan Carz's |
| 1:33.6 | books but I feel like something massive and myself conscious does not want to change and it's |
| 1:37.8 | fighting my conscious desire to change. So I'm actually drinking more than ever. Since last |
| 1:43.0 | Thursday night, I've had eight bottles of wine and my tolerance is now so high that you barely |
| 1:46.8 | even noticed that I had a drink. I so desperately want to stop and restore my life before it starts |
| 1:51.0 | to destroy my relationships. I'm in a financial mess because of drink and I simply don't know what to |
| 1:55.5 | do now. Do I read your book again? In this hope that it goes in. I remember a warning and Jason |
| 2:00.4 | Bales' book saying something along the lines, if you ever drink again, then rereading this book won't |
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