EP 298: Reader Question - Is life more enjoyable without alcohol?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Is not drinking really the best thing since sliced bread? Is it as amazing as people say? How can not drinking possibly be more fun than drinking? Annie Grace shares her own experience as well as some of the reasons why we feel we need alcohol for fun.

If you asked me about the one thing that makes This Naked Mind so different from anything else, I would have to say emotion. It is the emotion when people feel really ready to make a change, when they’ve had that mindset shift, when they’ve gone through all the materials and the methodology and they get this feeling that it’s not that they never get to drink again it's that they never have to drink again. And, interestingly, according to all sorts of new research, it is emotion, especially positive emotion, more than anything else that predicates how long a change will stick, how long it will last. It is emotion. When you feel excited about a change in your life. When you feel thrilled you’re making this new difference, instead of feeling deprived like you’re missing out, everything changes. And it really makes it that This Naked Mind can stick for the long term. If you want to know more about how to truly change your emotion around drinking, I want you to join me at nakedmindpath.com. It is the path to changing your emotion and changing your feelings and really finding freedom in your relationship with alcohol.

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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.
0:20.0	Hi guys, hey it's Annie Grace. Let me know if you can hear me. I am trying out these earbuds and I'm...
0:34.0	We're actually at a conference and there are a lot of ducks around like a lot.
0:40.0	They think I have food, I don't have any food, but they're trying to come say hello.
0:47.0	Anyway, I hope you can hear me. I hope my signal is good enough. I hope that all makes sense.
0:52.0	But today I really want to talk about this idea and this question that I get all the time, which is not drinking really more fun.
1:01.0	Because the sober curious movement would have you think, oh yeah, not drinking is more fun.
1:06.0	It's amazing. It's like the best thing since I spread. It's incredible. Everything is so great about not drinking.
1:12.0	So the question is, it's not drinking really more fun. And if you are someone who has recently taken a break from alcohol or tried the alcohol experiment,
1:19.0	which again, you guys, it's free at alcoholexperiment.com. You should totally do it with us.
1:23.0	But if you tried the alcohol experiment, comment and say like, yeah, it's totally more fun or no, you know, wasn't more fun.
1:29.0	Like just be honest about what your experiment was. Let me know. But the question I want to answer today,
1:34.0	what I want to talk about is this idea is not drinking more fun. So I'm going to do what I normally do and I'm going to approach this from a few different angles.
1:41.0	First of all, my own story, which is I remember so vividly thinking like, how does anybody even have fun without drinking.
1:51.0	I remember my parents weren't big drinkers and I just didn't get it. Like not even big drinkers. They just didn't drink.
1:57.0	And I was like, as soon as I discovered alcohol, I was so certain that it was so fun.
2:04.0	And it was something that I was certain of. I like to say that I was as certain of it as I was, I'm certain that the sky is blue.
2:11.0	I was just like unbelievable to me that you would have as much fun if you weren't drinking.
2:18.0	And prophecy, which made me even more certain that drinking was the thing that was so much fun. It was just this cycle.
2:28.0	And I couldn't even accept the idea that maybe not drinking would be just as fun.
2:33.0	So I was so afraid of not drinking. I felt like it would be literally robbing the joy from my life.
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