EP 302: Reader Question - Why do you tell people to keep drinking?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The first step in changing your relationship with alcohol is to stop trying to stop drinking. Wait. What? It’s counterintuitive. It’s controversial. It’s what makes This Naked Mind - the book, the methodology, everything - so different from anything else. There’s a very good reason we do things this way. So, take a breath, let yourself off the hook, and listen as Annie Grace busts the myths and clarifies what exactly she means when she says, “Stop trying to stop drinking.”

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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Transcript

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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	All right, hi, hi, let's see Annie Grace. I hope everybody is doing great. Oh my gosh,
0:32.6	such a such a good day, crazy times, a good day. And I have been getting a lot of questions
0:40.6	on something that is very different about this naked mind and the book and the methodology
0:46.1	and all the things. And so I wanted to get on here and kind of bust some myths and clarify.
0:53.3	But here's the thing, I talk a lot about this concept of the first step in changing your
0:58.6	relationship with alcohol is to stop trying to stop drinking. And I call this the pause. And
1:06.4	the pause came from my own journey. I mean, here's where I was, okay. So for years and years,
1:11.7	I was doing what every other mom around me was doing, every other, you know,
1:15.7	colleague around me was doing. My husband was doing, my friends were doing and drinking and drinking
1:21.0	and drinking and drinking. And of course, slowly social drinking and at work drinking became
1:25.3	drinking at home and self-medicating for intense stuff like postpartum depression with my second son.
1:32.9	And I found myself at a place where I was like, okay, my gosh, like this, the thing that I think
1:38.8	is really the thing keeping my life all together, which is my red wine is actually really tearing
1:44.9	my life apart. And so I was at this place in my life and I was like, oh my gosh, like the thing that
1:51.2	I think is like my best friend, the thing that I look forward to every day, the thing that I count on
1:56.7	to be more present for my kids or, you know, intimate with my husband, all of these things,
2:02.0	actually has this really dark side. And this dark side looked like me waking up in the morning at
2:06.8	three in the morning and just laying there in tears because I couldn't remember how much I
2:11.5	drank the night before. And because I felt so much anxiety, it was like having gasoline
2:16.7	poured into my stomach and I was, you know, energy and intensity and pain and it was just so painful.
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