EP 258: Reader Question - If I don't drink daily will I still have positive effects of sobriety?
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
If you abstain from alcohol during the week and only drink on the weekends, can you still reap all the amazing benefits of sobriety? Great question! What happens to your body when you introduce alcohol just once or twice each week? Do the sober days just cancel it out? How do your alcohol free days differ from someone who doesn’t drink at all? Annie Grace explains.
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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 | Annie Grace and I'm answering readers questions and today I have a question from Kelly. |
| 0:31.7 | Kelly says, I was mainly a binge drinker, maybe a glass or two of wine during the week, |
| 0:36.7 | but really saving up for a bottle on the weekends. |
| 0:39.4 | My usual pattern was 10, 15 drinks on a Saturday night, huge regret on Sunday, |
| 0:43.8 | then no drinks till Wednesday, a few glasses of wine, Thursday, Friday and repeat. |
| 0:48.4 | As someone who didn't drink every day, well, I still experience all the amazing effects of sobriety |
| 0:52.9 | as you have described. |
| 0:54.6 | Well, first of all, Kelly, I just want to say like everybody's journey is completely and totally different. |
| 0:59.2 | So obviously that there are lots and lots of different things to consider. |
| 1:04.6 | So I want to talk about two primary things that really contribute to some of what I would call |
| 1:11.1 | and you would call the amazing effects of sobriety and living alcohol free. |
| 1:15.3 | So first of all, the first thing is really to do with our minds and that's this noise that we have around drinking. |
| 1:23.3 | So that regret that you describe on Sunday after having 15 drinks the night before |
| 1:28.3 | and having Sunday be pretty much a wash, that just doesn't happen. |
| 1:32.8 | Like you wake up early with energy on Sunday and you feel great and you want to do exciting things |
| 1:37.4 | and you're not regretting it. |
| 1:39.2 | And then when you are counting down the days Thursday, Friday, okay, great, |
| 1:43.0 | I'm going to blow out on Saturday, I can't wait. |
| 1:45.3 | All of that doesn't happen. |
| 1:46.9 | So instead of sitting there in the moment that you're in but wishing you were in the next moment, |
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