EP 260: Reader Question - Why does change feel impossible?
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, a reader says, “I can’t even imagine changing. It seems impossible. I’ve been drinking for decades.” When we think about life without something, like alcohol, we’re actually telling our brain it’s even more important than we already think it is. But, what is it that really makes change feel so out of reach? Do we need to believe it’s possible before we even try? And, when does change start to feel possible? Annie Grace explores.
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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 | This is Annie Grace and I'm answering Readers questions and I went live yesterday after |
| 0:32.7 | a taekwondo and if you watched that, I was not driving. |
| 0:36.0 | I was in the passenger seat apparently when you go live on your phone. |
| 0:39.0 | It flips it around so it looks like I was in the driver seat. |
| 0:42.4 | I was not driving my husband was driving. |
| 0:45.1 | That was really funny but anyway I was totally in the passenger seat. |
| 0:48.5 | Today I want to talk about this question I got which was basically like, |
| 0:52.8 | hi Annie, I can't even imagine changing. |
| 0:55.1 | It sounds impossible. |
| 0:56.4 | I've been drinking for decades and wow can I resonate with this and I think literally |
| 1:03.0 | pretty much every single person who has changed their drinking through the alcohol experiment |
| 1:08.4 | which you can find it's always free at alcoholexperiment.com. |
| 1:12.1 | We've had 110,000 people go through there as of the last count which was a few months ago. |
| 1:17.1 | It's probably even more than that but every person felt like it was impossible and there's |
| 1:23.3 | so many things that you feel like are totally impossible until they happen. |
| 1:28.8 | And you know simple things like if you've never, I remember feeling like how am I ever going to |
| 1:34.9 | really love a child like before I ever had a child and then you have a child and you're like how |
| 1:38.8 | did I ever not? |
| 1:39.9 | And then you have one child and you're like how am I ever going to love my second child as much as |
| 1:44.9 | I love this child. That doesn't make sense like how is it even possible? |
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