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🗓️ 30 May 2020
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What can a wife to do support her husband who set a goal to stop drinking for a year, gave up alcohol for two months, and then she came home to find him drinking? Should she get angry? Give him tough love? Encourage him to keep trying? Leave him alone to wallow in his judgment and self-doubt? Annie shares her thoughts on what exactly constitutes success and how we can take what we interpret as failure and use it to our advantage.
Right now, for the first time ever, I am doing something that I think you will find incredibly valuable and amazing. Here's the thing, I've been asking myself, why do some people effortlessly stop drinking while other people struggle? Why do some people who haven't drank in years still miss it, still feel like they're missing out, still even feel a little self-pity? Why can't I do that anymore? What's going on? What's the difference? The thing is these questions have kept me up at night and I have spent years now diving into the science, diving into literally hundreds of interviews and thousands and thousands of surveys of feedback from people trying to understand why. What makes it different? I think I finally really understand it. And I've put all of this together into something that I believe is one of the best things I've ever created.
It is a modular membership program that is coach-led so that people can find freedom faster. I read recently that the average time from when somebody recognizes a problem with alcohol to when they solve it can be up to 15 years. I know that I get thousands of emails with people saying, "Man, I'm so happy I found your work. My only regret is that I didn't find it sooner." So I wanted to put everything I've known so far, all of the research, all of the interviews, all of your experiences, all of the stories into this coach-led program that is truly customizable for you. So if you need it for a month and you find your freedom, great. But if you need to be with us for longer, that's also fine. Right now, for a limited time, this program is at a massive discount just because I recognize what's going on with the world.
So if you are at all curious about this and you want to know more and you're ready to really make alcohol small and irrelevant in your life, once and for good to not only where you're not drinking, not stopping just at the behavior of drinking, but actually where it feels effortless not to drink. Where it feels easy, where you never feel like you're missing out, where you always actually feel like you're more joyful and happier. I know that's hard to believe, and it was for me too, but it's okay if you're skeptical. It works anyway. If you're curious about this at all, check it out, nakedmindpath.com. It's open right now. It's closing May 31st. So if you want to get in on this first-ever launch of this coach-led program, that is totally modular, that you can come and take as much time or as little time as you need to truly make alcohol small and irrelevant in your life, join me. nakedmindpath.com. I can't wait to see you there.
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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. I hope everyone is doing great. I have a question this morning that I wanted to |
0:32.6 | answer. I wanted to even answer it in a bit of a broader way than just to this specific question, |
0:37.4 | but I'm going to read the question. It says, good morning. I'm on the reach out today and |
0:41.5 | that's where soon advice on supporting a spouse who's trying to look at alcohol for you. Both my husband |
0:46.4 | and I read and loved your book. He said a goal I'm being sober for one year. Well, I thought that's |
0:51.1 | ambitious. I want to support him in whatever he wants to do. One of the many things I asked him was |
0:56.0 | what he planned to do. If he did it, at any point, have any drinks. He didn't really have a game |
0:59.5 | plan and that made me a bit nervous due to his history of being quite hard on himself. So it's been |
1:04.7 | close to two months of no alcohol and I came home yesterday and he'd been drinking and he admitted |
1:10.0 | it immediately and felt less than and instead of seeing it as a learning experience, he only saw |
1:14.2 | himself as weak. I'm wondering what to do to support him right now. Do I give him tough love? Do I |
1:18.3 | remind him that nobody's a failure? Do I encourage him to talk about it or just let it be? I thought |
1:23.2 | your book was so amazing and I wonder if you had any advice. So here's the truth. Okay, and I'm going |
1:28.4 | to go on a bit of a rant, but here's the truth. We don't look, I cannot think of anything and put it |
1:34.4 | in the comments if you can think of anything that we look at as 100%. If we decide we're going to be |
1:39.4 | a runner and then we don't run for 365 days of the next year, we don't consider ourselves a failure. |
1:45.6 | If we decide that we are going to try to eat less sugar and then we consume some sugar because |
1:51.9 | it happened to be a little bit in that ketchup we ate, we don't look at it the same way. But with |
1:57.2 | alcohol, we have developed this idea that it's like black and white, that it's all or nothing. Okay, |
2:02.6 | and I've been doing a lot of research on this because I think it's really important to go back to |
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