EP 274: Reader Question - My biggest obstacle is that I love the taste of wine, I understand I acquired the taste but I still love it!?

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Annie Grace

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

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🗓️ 25 April 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Can our brains really unlearn something we spent so long teaching them? Why, when we know something is harming us and we need to remove it from our lives, do we pine over it for so long? On today’s episode, Annie Grace answers a question from Francesca whose biggest obstacle is her memory of how alcohol tastes. Francesca uses mindfulness to remember where one sip of wine will lead but asks, “Is that the only thing to do or is there another strategy that I can employ?"

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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.
0:20.5	Hey, this is Annie Grace and today I'm answering Reader's questions. I have a question from
0:33.0	her in Cheska. She says, my biggest obstacle is my memory of alcohol tastes. This only bothers me
0:40.0	when I got to dinner. I'm at a social event. I understand that initially alcohol did not
0:44.2	taste good and I trained myself to like it, but now that memory has long faded and I only remember
0:48.8	how great wine tastes. When I get the urge to have a sip, I rely on mindfulness to remember
0:53.9	where that sip will lead. Is that the only thing to do or is there another strategy that I can
0:58.4	employ? So this is such a great question and it is something that can really trip us up because
1:03.6	you know I make a really great case for the fact that you acquired this taste and you didn't
1:08.3	love it at first and nobody really loves their first you know sip unless they're sipping something
1:12.9	super fruity and sugary like Malibu rum and Coke or something like that. But ultimately you acquired
1:18.8	the taste from wine and hard alcohol and beer and whatever it seems like you love now, but the truth
1:23.1	is you you did acquire it. So now that tasted is an acquired taste that you do enjoy. So how do you
1:29.9	overcome that? How do you get around that? I want to give you some some things. First of all, I want
1:34.3	you to understand that whatever it is learned can absolutely be unlearned with time. So I loved my wine.
1:41.4	Like loved loved loved. I remember spending you know many hours happily walking through the liquor
1:47.4	store, picking, choosing, testing. I remember going to different wine tastings and feeling super
1:53.3	posh about it and being excited and comparing it and all of these things like I was such
1:59.6	all in all the time with with the wine. And then when after I had stopped drinking for
2:06.4	it was probably close to a year maybe just over. I remember a friend of mine,
2:10.2	Portaglass of wine, and I could not believe how intense it smelled. And not only how intense,
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