EP 309: Coaching Questions with Scott Pinyard

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

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

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this month’s coaching episode, This Naked Mind head coach Scott Pinyard answers the following questions: 1) I stopped drinking for a month then started again due to stress; now I’m struggling to stop again - did this happen to you and is it normal? 2) I feel like I’m competing with others who have already quit drinking; I have only backed off on my drinking and not let go - thoughts? 3) How do you deal with stress now that there's no alcohol to take the edge off? 4) It seems like my husband doesn’t care that I’m trying to change my relationship with alcohol and his drinking is making it harder for me - what should I do?

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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.
0:20.6	Hey everybody, it's Scott Peneered, head coach of this naked mind and I am back for another
0:33.5	edition of coaching questions. I've got four awesome questions here and I'm going to dive
0:39.5	right in. Question number one goes like this, I stopped drinking for a month and was feeling great.
0:45.2	Add some very stressful events happen, a huge trigger for me and started drinking again,
0:50.4	thinking it would be short lived. Now, four weeks later, I am frustrated that I'm struggling to stop
0:55.5	again. Did you have any struggles like this and is this quote-unquote normal? Oh man, so listen,
1:02.8	first and foremost, before I get into my answer, I want to suggest that if this is you or if you find
1:08.3	yourself in a similar position to take a deep breath and give yourself some grace. Yes,
1:15.5	this happens. This is part of the process. I don't know if you've seen how Annie writes out,
1:22.4	she did this at the live event a couple of years ago but she had this graph that basically just had
1:27.2	a straight line up into the right and it was like this is what we think the process is going to
1:31.6	look like that we're going to decide the quit drinking and then make all the right decisions and then
1:35.6	boom we're not all free. This is what the process really looks like and it's a squiggly line that's
1:40.4	all over the place. This journey is full of ups and downs and there's no way around that and so
1:48.4	giving yourself grace and saying, you know what, of course this was the solution that my brain came
1:54.0	up with to difficult triggers. That's what I've been doing for a long time. Giving ourselves that
2:00.4	grace is how we can learn from that event and then effectively move forward as opposed to what we
2:08.3	are all used to doing which is just beating ourselves up about it. Just getting mad at ourselves
2:13.6	like how could you let yourself down like this? That sort of negative self-talk doesn't actually
2:20.7	create the positive emotion that we need to help get you to the other side of this.
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