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🗓️ 27 June 2020
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Today’s question comes from a reader who doesn’t want to drink but is worried about FOMO at an upcoming girls’ weekend. What do you do when you’re planning to attend the kind of event where alcohol has historically been a linchpin for celebration? Annie Grace offers four ways to manage your expectations and set yourself up for success - from holding onto your power to finding the magic in your thoughts to using the ACT Technique to practicing “Duck Mode.”
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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 here answering readers questions and so today I have a great question about how do you stay alcohol-free? |
0:37.2 | How do you keep the momentum when you're off to like a girl's weekend or a guy's weekend or a bachelor party or a bachelor at party and such a good question? |
0:44.2 | Lisa writes in, she says, Hi Annie, you're amazing, I feel great, I'll be alcohol-free for 30 days this weekend but I have an annual girls weekend in two days. |
0:51.2 | I really don't want to drink but I'm worried about Bomo, any words of advice on how to get through the weekend and skate. |
0:57.2 | I get this question all the time and it is about those weekends that historically we have just centered around alcohol like bachelor parties, |
1:05.2 | all of these things that alcohol has been like the linchpin in this situation so hi guys welcome, hey Chris, thanks for being here. |
1:12.2 | Here's my best advice but before I forget if you are wondering what would it be like to be 30 days alcohol-free? |
1:21.2 | Would that be good? Would that be bad? Am I curious about a life where I'm drinking a bit less or maybe drinking nothing at all? |
1:29.2 | I want you to join me at for a free 30 day challenge it's always free alcohol-experiment.com so if you haven't done that yet join that challenge it's phenomenal it's always free. |
1:39.2 | But right now we're talking about how do you stay alcohol-free at a girls weekend, a guys weekend going away for a bachelor party, these high pressure places where alcohol has just historically been such like a linchpin in this situation. |
1:55.2 | So first thing I would say is that you really want to not abdicate your power up front and what I mean by that is it's so easy for us to say oh well I could pretty much do anything but that. |
2:07.2 | I could pretty much do anything but that all inclusive or about that bachelor party I mean that's just going to be impossible. |
2:12.2 | And we literally abdicate our power up front not realizing that like there's lots of humans who don't drink at all there's lots of times in history where people haven't been drinking where it hasn't been such a vital part of the world. |
2:24.2 | So give yourself the permission to do what you want to do instead of just up front abdicating it and I know that sounds like a small thing but it's really really a big thing. |
2:36.2 | And how you do that specifically is I think that it's so important to understand how powerful a decision is. |
2:43.2 | Human beings we live by firm decisions and that actually shuts off the part of our brain that's like going back and forth and back and forth and you know this is true. |
2:53.2 | I know for me when I make a decision about something I actually feel a lot of peace and I'm going to give you an analogy for this that hopefully what land and hopefully will make sense but I have children right. |
3:02.2 | And if my kids are for in the mall we walk by somewhere that has ice cream and they're like oh mom let's get an ice cream cone and I say oh you know what not right now maybe later. |
3:11.2 | How many more times am I going to hear about ice cream I'm going to hear about it until later and then if later I say oh I don't know not yet I'm going to hear about it until on and on and on. |
3:21.2 | My friend Julie she's also a mom and she had this thing she would do and she would go into what she called duck mode which meant that like water just rolled off her back like a duck right like it was just like if you say anything she would tell her kids I'm in duck mode and here's the thing about duck mode. |
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