EP 300: Reader Question - Why am I triggered to drink when I’m feeling good?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

“Dear Annie: Today I was feeling pretty good about myself and what I was accomplishing and suddenly I had a craving. Normally I crave when I'm trying to avoid or numb a negative emotion, so I was confused. Acknowledging how good I was feeling, and my own goodness and beauty, makes me uncomfortable and I wanted to numb out those good feelings. When I realized it's easier to believe the negative things about myself than it is to believe the positive things about myself, I got really sad.” In today’s episode, Annie Grace shares her thoughts about how to deal with these cravings and explains why she always says, “Celebrate the awareness, no matter how painful it is.”

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Hey everybody, I hope everybody is doing so good and how are you? Good to see you guys. I
0:36.2	am going to answer a question that I got tonight, which is really an interesting question that
0:41.1	I want to dig into. But if you have never checked out this naked mind podcast, you should do
0:46.6	that. We are getting close to 4 million downloads, which like blows my mind. It's just crazy. It's
0:51.2	amazing. So check it out for sure. I put some links in the show notes. But today's question
0:58.7	and you guys, I love it when you send in questions. You can always send them to helloatthisnakedmind.com.
1:04.2	And today's question is, hi Annie, I found that today I was feeling pretty good about myself
1:09.3	and what I was accomplishing and suddenly I had a craving. Normally I crave on them trying to avoid
1:13.8	their numb and negative emotion. So I was confused about where the craving came from. I realized
1:18.3	that actually acknowledging how good I was feeling and my own goodness and beauty makes me uncomfortable.
1:23.7	And I was wanting to numb out those good feelings. And then I got sad as I realized it's easier to
1:28.5	believe in negative things about myself than it is to believe the positive things about myself.
1:32.8	I'm sure I'm not the only person who's experienced this, so I'm wondering if you had any resources
1:36.7	you could direct me to that talk about this. Thank you for your life changing work. So
1:40.8	such a good question. So there's two parts of this question that I want to handle. And one is why
1:46.5	do we want to drink when we're feeling good, especially when we in our minds think, wow,
1:50.6	I've been using alcohol to de-stress or to numb or to handle negative things in my life or to
1:56.3	avoid my own emotions. And then I'm feeling great. Actually, I've been out, call free for a few days.
2:01.6	Things are going good. I feel so good. And also that feeling so good for the first time and maybe
2:09.4	a long time because I'm alcohol free. I'm feeling proud of myself. I feel good. I'm feeling
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